Ok, I know I have been neglecting this blog for a long time. Thats because most of my technical rantings have moved to Fliquid Studios. But, I needed to share one of the most ridiculous usability failures I have ever experienced.
Today I was searching for a simple tank volume calculator to work out how [...]

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Please sign the GetUp petition against internet censorship. If you feel strongly enough about it, you might consider making a small donation.
 

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Almost an hour ago (or maybe more) one of the worlds most popular blogs, mashable, posted about Google Ads for Terrorism. Basically, Googles automated ad server, which picks up on keywords and displays ads based on those words, seems to advertise a lot of bad stuff.
eBay had this problem for a long time. A Google [...]

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A lot of people these days use graphical clients for creating their database schema’s and therefor start with the Entity Relationship diagram and then have it generate the SQL for them. I prefer to write SQL directly as I seem to have an ongoing misunderstanding with most graphical clients but then I would need to [...]

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About a year ago I came up with a funny idea to replace the finger cursor on links to a slightly modified version that I like to call ‘The Bird’.
I drafted my friend Lauren to do the work as I am not as useful behind a Photoshop enabled pc as she is.
Anyway as I [...]

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The short answer is no. The internet will not do everything for you. It will not work for you. You will only get out of the internet what you want to and it will be directly related to how much you put into it.
Businesses consistently believe that by simply having a [...]

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About a year ago I started generating XML sitemaps for Skylines Australia. At the same time I started pushing a bunch of other SEO strategies like friendly URL’s, metadata and a search engine friendly ’skin’ for my site which is a publically available ‘text-only’ skin. Its also good for PDA’s and mobile phone access.
For [...]

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I have been toying with the idea of moving to a self hosted wordpress blog for quite some time and I finally bit the bullet and did it. The main driving force behind this decision was;

More control. I can edit code, add plugins, modify anything I want,
Owned posts. With Google owning everything posted to [...]

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I can understand when things are in a public beta stage and are still going through testing, that things may not work. But, when a web application has been launched and there is no trace of ‘Beta’ or ‘testing’ anywhere on the site or service then you’d expect things to work ok and in this [...]

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I thought it was time I post about the web services that I could not live without. Basically, last week I bought a new Nokia E71 so that I could do as much work / organisation from my phone as possible. So, my ongoing drive is to have as much of my web accessible data [...]

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