I am cursed; I know enough about colour to know I don’t know enough about colour. I lack the easy confidence and freedom of the happy-go-lucky which says, ‘Oh cool, those are nice colours,’ and then clusters them happily and irreverently together. I am instead plagued by the indecisiveness of, ‘Those are nice colours, but will they really be right together?’ The rules of colour escape me, and I lack colour intuition. It’s torture. I’ll give you an example: my temperature blanket. Critical to a temperature blanket is the choice of colours representing the temperature scale. I know enough to …
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January 2024
I use Excel a lot; in fact, I consider it my ‘Desert Island’ software. For those unfamiliar with the UK’s Desert Island Disks program (on BBC Radio 4), this means that if I was stranded on an island and allowed to take only one piece of software with me, it would be Excel. I’m pretty sure I’d need to be keeping close tabs on all the best spots to catch fish, where to find the coconuts, and a log of plants that do and don’t make me ill when I eat them. Assuming I survive ingesting a dodgy bit of …
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