Miranda Sawyer follows Chris Martin around. Read: Guardian Unlimited | Arts Friday Review | Police, nudity, furious punters and taking out U2
Friday, 6 May 2005
GENERAL ELECTION 2005: The result in Peterborough
Where I'm living its Labour out, Conservative in. I voted Lib Dem, not a Tory fan, and not impressed with Labour's Helen Clark. See: Guardian Unlimited Politics | Aristotle | Peterborough. Oh and best of luck Tony B. you may have been a fool before, but just don't let the poeple down again!
WEB DESIGN: Content is king
Asterisk talks about the importance of content in relation to design. Read: Content vs. Design
Tuesday, 3 May 2005
WEB DESIGN: Usability testing without a budget
An often forgotten or ignored part of the production process, that can go along way to making a site work or fail. Read: Usability testing without a budget | 456 Berea Street: "It doesn’t really matter how much you know about usability – after working on a project for a couple of weeks you’ve become blind to many of the problems."
CULTURE: Why Pop Culture Is Good For You
Protein° Feed reports on whether Pop Culture is good for you or just mindless entertainment. I hope not, or I've been wasting a lot of time...
Monday, 2 May 2005
THE ELECTION, T-MINUS 3 DAYS: The war on Iraq was a sham, it wasn't even much of a war, we invaded, booted out Saddam, because George said so, then realised that's where the plan ended. Now the fallout from the episode is continuing to haunt Tony Blair, Guardian Unlimited Politics | Election 2005 | New British death returns war to election spotlight. Yes he was a fool for trusting a fool, but what's done is done, and if it's proven that he has broken laws, then he's got to go, but if not, and all the other MPs backed him up, then the other parties should stop putting up this smoke-screen and start telling the public what the future holds for Britain, rather than continuing to rake up the past.
It's mostly ifs and buts now, and we the people, NEED to know what will happen about education, crime, the environment - although by the sounds of it, someone had better remind the Conservatives about that. These are the things that will make a difference to the lives of the majority of the British public over the next five years. Unless of course George has more crazy taking-over-the-world-because-we-need-more-oil ideas.
INTERNET: The way things are. Sorry to rip a huge chunk of comment from Kottke's comments in A whole new internet? (kottke.org), but it's all true, after the dot com bust, companies panicked and only gave out money to develop sure-fire ways of getting a return on investment, while developing ideas and creative staff was not on many lists.
Read more: "When the dot com economy was crumbling in 2000 and 2001, I remember thinking at the time that although everyone I knew was out of work (myself included), that is was a good thing for the long term. One of the more pleasant side effects of the dot com boom was that billions of dollars were spent training indivduals how to design web sites, program, write, etc. In the years following the bust, when all those people were suddenly unemployed or stuck in high-paying jobs that they didn't care for very much but needed to pay the bills, they responded by starting to tinker around with all sorts of neat things, just for the hell of it. Because they could, because they wanted to, not because they had an artificial deadline to reach or some arbitrary client requests to satisfy."
Saturday, 30 April 2005
Friday, 22 April 2005
ENVIRONMENT: Not even George 'King Canute' Bush can stand in the way of the 'terrorist' known as nature. Read: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Antarctic glaciers show retreat: "The glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula are in rapid retreat."
Tuesday, 5 April 2005
WEB ACCESSIBILITY: Web designer? Then you must read this: Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) & web accessibility - webcredible
WEB DESIGN ACCESSIBILITY: Ever arrived at a site and felt unsure exactly what it's about? Page titles, taglines, headings, show yourselves!! Read: Tell me what you do!
WEB DESIGN: Get rounded corners with no images! Read and try: More Nifty Corners | Web Design | PRO.HTML.IT
Monday, 4 April 2005
"MR MEN": This made me laugh, but then it's late and I've got work in the morning, which will be less fun than eating an ironing board: See: b3ta.com
BIZARRE FORUM: No this ain't porn, it's just a bizarre hypothetical question?! Got the link from www.ntk.net. Read: The 2+2 Forums: How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once?: "Are you allowed to use one the kids to wield at other kids ala a sword?"
Sunday, 3 April 2005
ZIMABAWE: BBC reports on the election. BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Observers back Mugabe party's win: "'These were the most free and fair elections in the world,' Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa told the BBC." What an utterly ridiculous comment, how can he possibly begin to believe that this is anywhere near the truth, why would so many people and governments be critical of Mugabe if there wasn't something wrong in the country?
How can so many people be suffering under Mugabe's regime, and yet he still believes he is doing the right thing, continuing his racist policies and repression of anyone, black or white, who does not agree with his tyrannical, paranoid rule?
BLOGGING AND RSS: RSS/Syndication/feeds, whatever your call it, Molly Holzschlag looks into the approaches taken when adding RSS to a site. Read: molly.com » Where is YOUR Feed?
Tuesday, 29 March 2005
Monday, 21 March 2005
LIFE: If someone is brain-damaged/unconscious, and is never going to get any better, why would Bush/pro-life Conservatives want to force that person's loved ones to see them in a vegetative state being kept alive by machines for months, even years with no hope of ever seeing them recover? Why make everyone suffer?
It's not about the money it costs, or saving a hospital bed, etc, It's about reality, if someone is in a hopeless state, never to recover from their current state, what sense is their prolonging and compounding the pain for those still here? Read: Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bush intervenes in right-to-die case
Sunday, 20 March 2005
HEALTH: Good for you Naked Chef! Read: The Observer | Politics | Blair acts on Jamie's plan for schools
Thursday, 17 March 2005
Tuesday, 15 March 2005
BEST IN BLOG: Blogs win awards. Blogs ahoy. Bloggin all over the world. Etc. I apologise, but you get the message. Read: BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Best blogs on the web' honoured
DA VINCI CODE: Fact or fiction, or a little of both? Read: Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Vatican appoints official Da Vinci Code debunker: "'There is a lesson for the church in the success of The Da Vinci Code and the lesson is that the church needs to use modern media much more effectively to present the Christian message to the new generation.'"
DESIGN: Icon magazine reveals the most influential companies. Read: Protein° Feed - The 21 Most Influential
Monday, 14 March 2005
PHOTOGRAPHY: The light, shadow, clouds, it'll never be the same again. Great image of Toronto. See: [daily dose of imagery] beaches reflection
CRICKET: The ICC discuss the current state of the international game. Plenty to keep them occupied. Read: Key issues on ICC agenda from cricinfo.com.
CSS FOR THE MASSES: For those of us not lucky enough to attend the pretty cool SXSW Web/culture festival. Read/see: How to bluff your way in CSS from andybudd.com.
ACCESSIBILITY: Great article on CSS/DOM based usable image maps. Read/see: CSS Image Maps - Flickr-like Technique?
CSS: Compress your css file sizes for larger projects, just add PHP. Read: Compressing your CSS with PHP
Sunday, 13 March 2005
CRICKET: Australia's Michael Bevan gone but not finished yet, eight centuries in nine state games turns a few selectors heads. Read: Bevan sets sights on World Cup recall
Saturday, 12 March 2005
COMEDY: The Two Ronnies return for one last hurrah, genius. Read: MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Two Ronnies back on TV: "And finally, the public are warned to be on the lookout for Joseph Gomez, a Spaniard, last heard of living in Tooting, whose mother was a nun in Barcelona. A one-time flautist with a symphony orchestra, he is wanted for looting in Haifa, where he worked on a farm. The police urge people to look out for a Haifa-looting fluting Tooting son of a nun from Barcelona, part-time ploughboy Joe"
MUSIC: Why do annoying songs nag away inside your brain all day? Read: BBC NEWS | Health | How tunes get stuck in your head
Friday, 11 March 2005
COMEDY: Dave Allen R.I.P. Read: BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Comedian Dave Allen dies aged 68: "'That extraordinary relaxed style with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other as he buttonholed us with wonderful jokes and stories is the image that we shall remember,'".
Thursday, 10 March 2005
PHP DEVELOPMENT: As I'm trying to get into PHP, this, frankly is gold. Read: Digital Web Magazine - Easy-peasy PHP
PEOPLE ARE MEAN: As my girlfriend so rightly put it. This blog about saving the life of a cute bunny is funny but not funny at the same time. Visit: Savetoby.com | Only YOU have the power to Save Toby!
Tuesday, 8 March 2005
Monday, 7 March 2005
SLEEP: Veerle's blog reveals the perils of getting enough sleep in the 21st Century: "A recent British research project concluded that British people on average sleep 90 minutes less then in the previous century." I hear you, but to be honest, I don't help myself. As Veerle rightly mentions, the Web is a such a huge place, there's always some temptation to occupy your time only a click away.
WEB DESIGN: Kim Goodwin at conference in San Francisco talks about the Web design process. Read: Getting Your Design Built - Wednesday, February 23, 2005: BayDUX (BayCHI)
WEB SEMANTICS: Molly Holschlag explains The Meaning of Semantics: "
