There was a time when your nightly routine about maxed out with brushing your teeth, now it seems the nightly routine has developed into a fine art form. It’s one side of working for myself coupled with the industry I live in I guess. You may sort your emails, you may set your calendar, organise your feeds, back up your hard drive - we all have our own routine we do before ‘puter off time’ or ‘brain off time’.

Over in the 9rules notes there was a discussion about whether a professional organisation for web designers could or even should exist. It’s something I’ve thought about before and in principle I agree with - the problem is the application as with so many things. A valid point is also the way things like certification and so on are watered down often in the process of membership. The thing is there are existing certifications for the industry it’s just none has even either gained enough take up rate or has managed to become the ’standard’.

Be warned rant coming (awoga and other warning sounds / lights should be considered going on)…..

I have a lot of various design (and some non design but closely linked) related thoughts going on at the moment and figured I’d write them down. Of course some may become full on posts, but I felt it was about time I got some of these out of my brain and onto my blog. Consider this a designer’s brain dump for today.

Have you ever had a tune on your hard drive for ages and not known what it was or where it came from? Well, I have (actually I have far too many of them) and today thanks to Ben (via Simon’s new music delivery from a visit to Ben’s) I gained the insight into at least one of my ‘what the bleep is that it’s good’ tracks. I am going to bed much happier in the knowledge it’s ‘The White Hare’ by Seth Lakeman and wow ‘Freedom Fields’ is one heck of an album.