Sunset over the archipelago, south-west Finland. Fresh out of the sauna with a long drink and the sound of the wind in the pine trees. One of my personal favourite places to be.

Just received this obvious (to me) phishing attempt pretending to be an official NHS message. The probably spoofed 'from' number is one the NHS uses, and I'm sure many people will fall for it. @england.nhs.uk

Apart from the message content, the whois data for the domain is what gave it away.

Hopefully, you've enjoyed this peek behind the curtain of music internet publishing 20 years ago. This is what a website project looked like back then. I plan to post more anecdotes as certain anniversaries approach, as we're about to hit 25 years ago for some projects.

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The release of Kate Bush's "King of the Mountain", the first single off "Aerial", was quite the event. The music video premiered exclusively on Channel 4 at 9 pm, followed by its online release via my QuickTime player engine, requiring many hours of capture, compression and uploading time.

As the browser was still pants at playing audio and video, I created a custom QuickTime Player with "LiveStage Professional". I created a range of these for many artists, winning an Apple Design Award in 2004 for Robbie Williams' "Live at Knebworth".

LCD Soundsystem was a fun project - I really tried to capture the lo-fi and punk elements of the band and its label, DFA. I also deliberately didn't use Flash, choosing to use raw HTML and (largely broken) CSS. It was also the first site I got working on mobile, using WAP 😅