Rob Winters

Having a little redesign and felt the need to remove the old styles and go naked for a while. Ooh its a bit chilly.

I decided to document my journey to work today in the form of some blurry camera phone shots. None of my trains were late and I had no crazy people talking to me on the tube, so quite uneventful all in all.

I find my self wanting to do things like this since the arrival of little Tom. “Look Tom this is how daddy got to work before he got his rocket turbo boots”. I’d be really interested to see your journey, get out your camera/phone and start clicking, post a link here for all to see.

After lots of nagging from friend and college Mat I’ve decided to add a new section to the site. I’m always drawing and have been for as long as I can remember so now instead of just placing these doodles in a shoe box and forgetting about them I will now scan and post them up under doodles instead.

Another quick post, this time to say how much I’m enjoying reading Jeremy Keith’s DOM Scripting. For designers who find “programming languages” hard to grasp this book is ideal. Clearly written and aimed at designers you’ll find it impossible not to learn something.

Just a quickie to say measure map rocks. I’ve been using this blog stats application for a few days now over at Apple Mad and I’m impressed. It’s so easy to use, delivers all the info a blogger could possibly need and to top it off it’s all wrapped up in a beautiful UI. Excellent job Adaptive Path. Oh and it’s free.

I’ve just discovered another stealth tax. Ok this one does not directly go to the government but instead goes directly to the person who does the laundry in your household. Your wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend/android is pocketing a percentage of your lose change from dirty washing that you have thoughtfully hung on the floor 2 feet away from the laundry basket.

I caught my girlfriend making a DWT deduction this morning, she calls it the Sarah washing fund, I call it another reason I can’t afford a G5 Power Mac or diamonds for the soles of my shoes.

How much are YOU getting taxed? How long has this been going on? Are there any tax breaks if we manage to put our laundry in the basket. (Yeah.. who is going to do that!)

Quote from the girlfriend in question.
I wont hold onto notes, that’s like an unwritten rule, but up to about £2 worth of change is the current rate*.

So apparently I can pay up to £2 per load in Dirty Washing Tax. I’m not sure what tax bracket that puts me in but it seems like a pretty reasonable one, I get a good service, my clothes always magically appear on hangers in my wardrobe smelling like fresh daises and 8 times out of ten remain the same size and colour as the day I bought them.

*This rate may change without warning or reason. Your side of the bed maybe at risk if you do not keep up payments.

I meant to blog about this at the time, but I never had a blog then so I couldn’t. Anyway I goes away for three weeks to the beautiful Land of the long white cloud. I reluctantly return to work to find my desk looking like THIS. Seems my colleagues Mat and Vince had a busy time while I was away.

So I went away for the weekend and almost bought myself one of these to keep my iPod shuffle charged so I could rock all weekend. Then I realised that as I had one of these I didn’t need to spend the extra cash. Bonus!