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All I want to do is find a frickin’ radio station!
Thank you Chris for pointing me to this piece on featuritis :-)
Design clichés
Ahhh love those logos with a swoosh. Speakup has compiled a definitive list of design clichés with a prognostic on each. I’m embarassed to admit I’m fond of bubble-head people… Still, I suppose I could always get ...
I want to say I totally agree/love it/hate it/ but can’t be fucked to post a fully formatted comment
This is an idea as beautiful as it simple…
Tardis Tennis
Winston Churchill whups Shakespeare two sets to nothing… it must be the BBC’s Tardis Tennis
Font sizes
Recently lost my rag with a very nice person on one of the HCI lists I subscribe to. My juvenile, agressive and totally uncalled-for behaviour was triggered by the fact that the person works at Verisign (regular r...
Last call for comments on CSS2
Attention all CSS boffins, you have until 15 July to post comments on the working draft of CSS 2.1
Techno-bollocks,
Live 8
Bob was livid when he found out about L8 tickets changing hands for loads of cash online. I saw him on TV a couple of days ago really laying into eBay. I’m not sure if this was Bob’s idea, but someone suggested bi...
Want want want…
Embedded in the back of the bag are three lightweight, tough, waterproof solar panels which generate up to 4 watts of power. This means quicker charge times!
Techno-bollocks,
Accessible
I’m always curious to hear any information that suppports the argument that not making your site accessible is a nonsense. The DDA Centre has nothing to do with website design, but they did have this little snippe...
Transformaçaõ de Armas em Enxadas
I’ve been spending quite a lot of time looking at the British Museum website these past couple of months. I’ve nicked this graphic from Compass, their editor-selected presentation of 5000 significant pieces from t...
Usability?
I’m on a couple of usability lists and one of them sparked a slightly strange exchange of messages a few minutes ago:
Techno-bollocks,
Tiger
Well, I’ve been on the verge of buying Tiger and going through the upgrade thing with the five-odd machines I’m responsible for. It looks like I’ll loose key functionality if I do (virtual switch networking) and I...
Techno-bollocks,
Red-eye
Sunday afternoon and my eyes are still going mental. This is beginning to worry me slightly, after all I rely quite heavily on my eyes to do my job. If things haven’t improved by tomorrow morning, I think I’ll go ...
Puffy and smelly
So I’m sitting here at my desk, it’s 5am and I’m trying to get some writing done, but my eyes are killing me.
Family,
ER -- The Video Game
Just been contacted by Francis Poku at specialopsmedia.com re featuring the new ER game on Donkey.
Tags
Sitting here in MUF where I work on personal projects thinking about the structure of a huge, museum website and have just noticed that Technorati’s tags page is almost 50% non-roman.
Memory machine
I’m not sure whether I prefer the Flickr ‘most recent’ or ‘random’ badges, but one of the nice features of the random badge (which grabs pics at ‘random’ from your photosets) is that is reminds you of days past.
Getting clients to the Land of Usability…
I forget if I’ve mentioned this before, but we’re all carrying all manner of legacy decisions about producing web pages. We’ve got the web-safe colour thing, the acessible Javascript thing, the quirks or no quirks...
Techno-bollocks,
Feeling Tufte today -- -)
Doing some background reading for a big IA project and came across this classic from Edward Tufte
Asquith Court West Hampstead
I was beginning to think the good works of the Asquith Eight were going to go unnoticed forever.
Touching screens
What is it with account execs? They can’t help themselves from poking the screen. One in particular had the endearing habit of using a biro which left little blue smudges…
Tom Coates on trackback
Tom writes Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too? I’m not sure I agree with his findings. To be honest, I have a problem understanding exactly how trackback works, so time to delve deeper. What is undeniable is...
Techno-bollocks,
Asquith Court Parents Association
There has been a real grassroots effort by the parents of kids at Asquith Court West Hampstead. It got so bad we moved CU-1 to a new nursery (which she calls her “new nursery” which is kinda cute…).
Family,
More ‘customer support’ nonsense
I got this note at work this morning. This is crazy as it’s now the second time I’ve got the note and for some reason, this company cannot operate outside its scripted customer support parameters. This a very impo...
Techno-bollocks,
Workflow for Movable Type
If you can get past the mind-bending idea of plugins having their own plugins, it really shows how plugin developers have taken a place next to strategy consultants, content mavens, and implementation experts in b...
Techno-bollocks,
Wireless magic
Sitting in the car outside my flat typing this. Thank you open 802.11 networks :-)
Techno-bollocks,
Isobel Daisy Holmes
I know I do overdo it on the baby content, but I just this minute received this email: