Archive for March, 2005

Silly Wordpress

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

This is just daft. Matt from Wordpress has been outed as someone who is commonly referred to as a Search Engine Spammer.
Why? Because he’s been using hidden div’s on Wordpress.org for advertising.

Thinking about Users

Monday, March 21st, 2005

Jeffrey Zelman talked yesterday about a subtle, but important, shift he spotted at SXSW, with designers and developers really thinking about the user a lot more.
This is great stuff. The comment about Flickr is a prime example.
For instance, when both teams reimagined Ludicorp Research’s Yahoo’s Flickr, the panelists in charge began by talking about [...]

SXSW - Music and Web Design

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

What a combination of topics, Web design, and music. Two things I love and enjoy, always helps to have a bit of music playing while coding.
There are a lot of people in the design blogospehere on about the web side of the South by Southwest festival, and I’m currently listening to Radio1, who [...]

BT trialing 8mbps Broadband

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

After just upgrading 512kbps lines to 2mbps lines recently (and it being gradually cascaded through the various ISP’s), BT are about to launch trials of 8mbps DSL.
Interesting that doesn’t mention what type of DSL. 8mbps ADSL would only be useful depending on the upload speed. It’s already annoying having 2mbps download, but only [...]

Win XP Cleartype

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

If you’re using Windows XP and never heard of Cleartype, run through these simple steps to check you’ve got it turned on.
Go to your desktop (press d while holding the Windows key down)
Right click on the desktop, and select properties
Go to the appearance tab and click the “Effects…” button
Make sure “Use the following method to [...]

My new toy

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

Got me a new toy yesterday, a lovely 19″ flat screen Belinea monitor.

So, I’m now running that, and the 17″ Iiyama CRT which has served me well for the last couple of years. The TV card I got for christmas is now being used properly so I can have full screen digital TV while [...]

Next Darwin Award Winner

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

I think I’ve got a candidate for a future winner of the Darwin Awards.
Jordan’s pregnant with Peter Andre’s child.
The kid doesn’t stand a chance coming from that kind of gene pool.