Astonishingly a month has flown by. While this partly reflects a recent lack of inspiration to tinker with the wasabicube design, it’s also a symptom that work and home life have not left many gaps to be filled by blogging and photography.

In that light, a recap of the august moments of the month, so far:

Interpol

We had the pleasure of seeing Interpol live at the St James on 2 August and met up with Darren and Amanda there. Darren flickr’d some photos.

Books

A little flurry of Amazon-ordered books has arrived over the last couple of weeks, including:

Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design

An excellent book by some of the luminaries of the Web: Christopher Schmitt, Mark Trammell, Ethan Marcotte, the now found Dunstan Orchard and Todd Dominey

Thinking With Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

by Ellen Lupton

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity*

by David Allen (just call me an ass-hat, mouth-breather whydotcha?!)

* what’s the likelihood of me finding the time to finish this book?

I’m expecting Bulletproof Web Design: Creating Flexibility with XHTML and CSS by Dan Cederholm to arrive by the end of the week. If it’s anything like his previous book, Web Standards Solutions, it will be a fantastic addition to the bookshelf.

A List Apart redesigns

A List Apart has launched version 4.0, and it’s a stunning design by the multi-talented Jason Santa Maria along with the likes of Eric Meyer on CSS, Dan Benjamin on CMS, and Erin Kissane & Jeffrey Zeldman on writing and direction.

Over the years A List Apart has played an invaluable role in extending my appreciation of Web design techniques and been a great catalyst.

Design in Flight flies again

Andy Arikawa’s Design in Flight has been resurrected as an online magazine and, it seems, it’s future is assured. Very good news!

Web Essentials 2005

I’m off to Web Essentials 2005 in Sydney, Australia, at the end of September, including a workshop with Jeff Veen from Adaptive Path on Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps. I’m hoping this will give me real impetus with the Web apps I’m developing at work.

Web Standards Group

Darren and I think it must be time to get another Web Standards Group meeting organised in Auckland. Since the last informal gathering in June we’ve had a few more contacts from interested parties, so watch this space – we’re gearing up again!