title: Shoebox — Work by Giles Turnbull
url: https://gilest.org/shoebox.html
hash_url: 462022ad2f27ff57387e9d0f49e96bad

<p>I have a habit of using old shoeboxes to keep things in. Old photos, bits of paper, odds-and-ends that don’t have another place to live. </p>

<p>This is my digital shoebox: a bit of website where for the odds-and-ends. I put things here so that I can delete them from other places. </p>


<ul>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/shoebox/sweet-film/index.html">Sweet Film</a>, an album of photos made using <a href="https://sweetfilm.app">Sweet Film</a> for iOS; I thought about using it for a project, but I never did</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.gilest.org">An archive of my Twitter account</a>, 2006-2023. RIP.</li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/greetings-cards.html">Designs for greetings cards</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/anti-growth-coalition.html">Anti-growth coalition</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/breathing-is-an-exchange-of-gases.html">Breathing is an exchange of gases</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/lockdown-quizzes.html">Some quizzes I made for lockdown socialising</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/shoebox/oja-certificate.jpg">Online Journalism Awards certificate</a> - for being a finalist in the 2012 awards, for <a href="https://themorningnews.org/article/twitter-by-post">Twitter by post</a>
</li><li><a href="https://gilest.org/shoebox/giles-in-dot-net.png">That time I got interviewed in .net magazine</a> (about <a href="https://themorningnews.org/article/twitter-by-post">Twitter by post</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/shoebox/singing-thing.html">Singing thing</a> - a draft of a piece I started for <a href="https://themorningnews.com"><em>The Morning News</em></a> but never finished</li>
<li><a href="pretend-office-tweets.html">Pretend Office tweets</a>, draft tweets from the team at the company that's almost certainly among the best in the field that it's in (<a href="https://www.pretendoffice.co.uk">see also</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/shoebox/sf.html">Science fiction I grew up with</a>, a draft of a blog post I never finished</li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/shoebox/future-of-social-networking.txt">The future of social networking</a>, a piece I wrote for The Daily Telegraph (I think) in about 2010-ish (I think)</li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/shoebox/i-couldnt-take-this-photo.html">I couldn't take this photo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/scanned-furniture.html">Scanned sleeve art for Furniture albums</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/shoebox/jobs.html">Nightmare jobs from hell</a>, a note about some of the terrible jobs I did as a youth</li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/shoebox/start-thing.html">Start thing</a>, a home-made internet start page from the late 1990s. We used to make these ourselves, you know.</li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/shoebox/kleinrock.txt">The birth of the internet</a>, a brief email exchange with Leonard Kleinrock, from back when I was a fresh young internet correspondent</li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/shoebox/journolinks.html">Internet links for UK journalists</a>, another hand-made page from the 90s, when people made "lists" of "links" </li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/shoebox/index_20001222.html">This web site's home page</a> from 22nd December, 2000</li>
<li><a href="https://gilest.org/shoebox/pilot.html">Palm stuff</a> and <a href="shoebox/palm.html">palmpilot stuff</a>, two versions of an ancient web page about my Palm Pilot</li>
</ul>