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Like a stone in my home page »

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I just knew something was wrong, imbalanced with the home page here. And now I know, and it’s fixed. Read »

What’s Wrong With www? »

Business, Design 1 comment ›

It ain’t cool bud. If you’d like a detailed diatribe on where www came from (Tim Berners–Lee), why it was bought into being and why it is not used by some (notably the folks over at http://no-www.org), then you came to the wrong article. Read »

How to re–design you’re website »

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With care. Thought. Deliberation. Significant gaps between decision made and decision acted on. Read »

Coke may be wet, but DRY website content is it »

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Parodying the “Coke is it” saying may be a stupid way to title but there you go. Without a DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) approach the likelihood of content being wrong or time being wasted is significantly increased. Read »

Mac OS X v Windows Vista (the easy-write) »

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An excellent article by John C. Welch of InformationWeek makes it painfully obvious that there is no contest here. Read »

Trousers too short? »

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This is so sneaky. I have hidden this writing back in time by editing an earlier post, is that akin to being impolite in company? I suspect so… Read »

Google Reader (RSS client) — it’s excellent »

Design, Google, RSSness 2 comments ›

A little while back I ranted about the Google RSS client. Read »

Google mail (gmail) subtle new look »

Design, GMail, Google 1 comment ›

Today, Google mail freshened up the look of their mail messages in gmail.

The clean largely text based i/f now sports a little more graphics. When in a thread of emails one is now given options to print, reply etc to a given mail in that thread via a drop down list on the RH side.

Off to go and look at the changes in more depth (what a terrifically exciting life I lead).

A partial-filter (hack) for CSS for the Firefox browser? »

CSS, Design 2 comments ›

Please comment if you know this filter (okay, partial-filter) is already in use elsewhere so I can go away with my tail between my legs. Or, if you think you know about CSS filters and do not know of this one and suspect I may have discovered it then please comment here to let me know (thanks). Read »

Backpack calendar versus Google calendar »

Design 1 comment ›

What?

You expected some excellent diagnosis of the benefits or otherwise of each of these?

Sorry. Not today.

Just a quick post to say that I have tried and failed to fall for Backpack calendar and conversely cannot complain about anything in Google calendar - well nothing comes to mind right now, well one thing, but it’s too dull to mention.

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The writings here are actually very infrequent & occasionally good…