Archived posts for January, 2006

Heavy what?

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Ok, this does not really justify a post but it did make me laugh.

I was looking for a software update yesterday and, as usual, the support pages of most sites were pretty lame, but the excuse at the bottom of this one made me laugh…

Not sure what it means but I hope none of my [...]

Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing regarding your website…

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

A couple of days ago I was opening some packages from a number of suppliers when I happened to take notice of the different types of packaging used. One in particular stood out, and printed on the the inside was not only the company name, but their web address. Great I thought, lets [...]

SXSW Interactive

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

If you can’t get into the London @media event, or you simply can’t get enough of web stuff, then check out SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas.

Lots of web geekery and some seriously big name speakers will be yours for a full four days. Rub shoulders with the glitterati of the web world and [...]

Learning Javascript (and DOM and DHTML!)

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

After years of denial, I recently decided I needed to learn Javascript a bit better than twiddling scripts borrowed from others webpages.

As I am sure you all know, Javascript was born of evil and raped at birth by cruel monsters. It is a despicable language championed by Frontpage followers primarily to deface perfectly good [...]

Paparazzi for web pages!

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Ever wanted to grab a ‘screenshot’ of an entire webpage, you know, one that is too big to fit on the screen?

Paparazzi is just a great little (Mac) app which does this no matter how big the page is. Plenty of handy of options including setting the width and the ability to save the [...]

@media 2006

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

The @media UK based web design conference has now been announced and is taking bookings.

Tickets run at a cool £395+VAT per delegate for the whole two day event so I won’t be going anytime soon*, but if you’re feeling flush then get over to the registration page. And be quick, last years event totally [...]