The Bohemian Pixel is the personal web page of Andy Thornton and exists primarily to share my notes on web development, production, scripting, retro gaming and anything else that takes my fancy.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.Winston Churchill

Master Of the Arcane

Technology moves at a rapid pace and I work in an industry where tech trends can change overnight. Keeping up with this whirlwind of change can be daunting as well as time-consuming. So how can we keep our skills up to date while the world changes around us?

Living in the Future!

A mate of mine recently blogged about how we are living in the future and it got me thinking to how much things have changed since I was a nipper. Taking a look around my living room, I can see two laptops, an X-Box, a Wii, a DVD player and my android phone.

MS Office Docs Download as Zip files

Interesting problem (feature) of Internet Explorer. When you download Microsoft Office Documents, they sometimes come down as .Zip files. Which isn't always our first choice. So why does this happen and how can we fix this behaviour?

Drupal Camp Atlanta '09

I recently had the opportunity to deliver a session at Drupal Camp Atlanta on hosting a multi-site and sharing tables in Drupal. I have made the slides availalble here, along with the video of the session.

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Intro to Twitter

According to Nielsen Online, social networks and blogs are now the 4th most popular kinds of online activities. 67% of the world online population are now visiting them and the time they’re spending on them is growing by three times the overall growth rate of the internet.

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