Shared today on Facebook

The wonderful folks at Web Directions have made available the video of the talk I gave at Respond Conf back in March: “Responsive Ads: This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.” I’m pretty happy with it, other than the constant up-talking which drives me up the wall. (I blame Australia for that.)

Note: I wrote this talk before the recent War Against Ad Blockers began. Crazy how much has changed in eight months!


In the US, they have “Elf on a Shelf.” At Canva, we have “Dave on a Tree.”


Fifteen years later, and I’m still listening to this guy rant about web standards.


Old people. #sydjs



Important Note

This site features content going all the way back to 2000. The posts you’ll read reflect my views and writing style at the time. While I have gone back to clean up a few of them, I think it’s important not to sanitise too much. This site is a record of who I am and how I’ve grown. Any blog post written years ago may not reflect who I am today, nor how I would write about the same topic today.