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ames.world
I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way. Anagram of Amnesia.
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Last summer, my blog setup annoyed me once too often and I decided to build something else from scratch. I think I did just enough to let out some annoyance and then forgot about it for 6 months. Taking another look today! Some notes at neil-vass-2.com

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money. Yeah this was cool, but my first single was Celine Dion so that totally destroyed any cool points I had 😂

Wait what Keanu Reeves is the voice of Shadow in Sonic the Hedgehog 3?!?!

Glancing at the gladiators opening sequence and for a second I thought Giant was called Gannt what have I become 😱

Looks warm out but I'm taking a jumper just in case. I've turned into my parents!

I’ve been following DOGE with a real sense of shock from the UK. This is a good article - how understanding the relationship between policy, modern services and technology is crucial, and what is technology a means to? www.techpolicy.press/doge-underst...

resonates.

I love little indicators into a company's culture. For example at the current client I can download word docs but I'm not allowed to download powerpoint decks.

Evening

Oh, I meant to say in my weeknotes. We're holding an online coffee session on Tuesday morning for folk working in or interesting in digital/tech/public service delivery in Wales. Give me a shout if you are interested and I can send you more details.

Hey just a quick note to anybody getting their Valentine’s results today. It’s not the end of the world if you don’t get what you were expecting. You can always repeat and some of the sexiest people in the world failed Valentine’s Day so chin up

Remember, people are disabled by bad assumptions, design, code, architecture, content, processes, policies, go governance, attitudes and biases, to name a few. So before you say accessibility is done FOR disabilities, recognise it’s our decisions that disable our users.

Current status: Dad dancing to Blue Monday (long edit) with the 11 yr old.

"Social networking and media should have always been temporal. These should be thoughts and creations you're okay with letting go of into the wind." nazhamid.com/journal/less... I've always thought of social media like this. This is why I never cared to download an archive of my social media posts.

Argyle have been rewarded for their astonishing Emirates FA Cup victory over Liverpool with an away fifth round tie against Premier League champions Manchester City. #pafc

I think they enjoyed that 😂 #PAFC

And come Tuesday, Exeter will bring down Forest and finally, finally, an all Devon FA cup final will be on the cards.

Geddon you Janners! What a team effort

ARGYLE BEAT THE PREMIER LEAGUE LEADERS! 💚

HOTDOG!!!

More shots than the scousers! Great first half Argyle, it's the hope that kills you 😁 #PAFC

And we give folks like Accenture government contracts? Accenture to roll back it’s DEI work. Shame on them. www.theguardian.com/accenture/20...

I have dusted off my 'hire me' page on my blog - a bit early because I am not available until April but I want to be a bit more intentional in what I do next - like a friend said in a chat this week 'hold my nerve' - for the right shaped thing. digitalbydefault.com/hire-me/

People keep coming back to this blog post, so I’ve given it a little update and added links to some great posts by @ames.world and Stéphanie Krus www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/first-6...