Paul Annett

I’m enjoying freelancing at Kugel at the moment, although the trains are as screwed as ever so the commute to London is killing me! Including half an hour at each end to get to/from the station, I’m spending about 5 hours a day travelling - that’s almost as much time as I’m in the office!

It’s nice to have a long weekend. Not that I’ve been doing much. We were meant to be going out with Jodie and Glenn last night, but lack of funds all around meant that our extravagent plans had to be sherlved for now. Instead, I’ll content myself with going to the cinema tonight (alone; Relly doesn’t like films!) after spending most of today working on a new Flash site for BMG Records, for a ‘rock’ artiste called Kealer.

I spent some time yesterday tweaking the look of this site. I have yet to publish the results, but you will see them soon (and may not notice them, but they make me happier and my life easier).

Also, there’s the Helvetica vs. Arial font fight I stumbled upon today, for any typography geeks.

Left my wallet on a train last week. I cancelled all my cards within a couple of hours, but it was a pain in the arse as it meant I had no cash and no means of getting any cash for days whilst replacements were issued.

Hence me putting a free tracker on this site rather than a professional one (no means of paying for it) - I wanted to know who’s looking at the site. Turns out, about 10 people an hour were being referred from the Royal Mail website! I couldn’t figure out how or why, so I emailed them and they couldn’t figure it out either, despite the evidence. Turns out that a rogue error was causing some banner ads for a loans company to direct people to nice-design.co.uk! Such a shame they didn’t stick around when they got here.
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