Dave asked me what the French call a cul-de-sac. I think it's an impasse:

Actually, this is my last blog post from France. I'm feeling sad to be leaving, in fact I haven't got my head around the fact that the holiday is ending.

I've been doing a bit of …

It's not a great look, Tony. But it does have the distinction of being the most designed bit of your site so far!

What I like about favicons is that however much you refresh the page or purge your cache they never show up immediately. You get frustrated, check you've …

Here's the area around my gite on OpenStreetmap:

Over the next couple of days I'll try and fill in some of the missing bits. Actually, the scale might be a bit small to see any difference in a side-by-side comparison afterwards. I'll have to learn all the French words for …

I've done a little icon for Polifesto:

It's the favicon that the browser puts in the address bar, tabs etc. What do you think? It's okay, you can be honest.

Apart from bugs and odds and ends, Polifesto is done for the moment. Also, the example manifesto La Licorne is …

Great shoes =)

Fnarr, fnarr!!!

A view of the Loire, taken at Amboise.

There are huge corn fields. Walking in them you feel like you're in Signs.

Segueing neatly from Signs the film, to a sign for a public footpath. This sign means that to follow the blue path, if you're coming from …

The blur on the left is Meg running away after undoing my shoe lace.

At the swings with my nephews, there's this skate-swing thing.

Ages ago, Andy made a cocktail, with me choosing the ingredients, this was the result. Fantabulous!

I've been doing some work on Polifesto, both the functionality of the site, and the content. Polifesto is a wiki of political manifestos. You can rate the manifestos and write your own. You can include policies from other manifestos. I've fleshed out a manifesto call La Licorne Manifesto.

The technical …