spontaneous expressions of mediocrity
Microsoft will purchase Yahoo. It hasn’t happened yet, but the bid is now officially on the table, and it will happen. My previous experiences with unsolicited takeovers have shown me that they are usually best measured in terms of when—not if.
As a Mac person, I don’t hate Microsoft. They are nearly irrelevant [...]
Zeldman on version targeting:
With version targeting, IE stays on the path of web standards.
Without it, ineptly made websites “break,†putting IE’s standards compliance at risk.
If IE were to stop supporting standards, standards would stop working.
Deep down I know his reasoning is right, but I’m so @#$%ing pissed at all you @#$%ing incompetent @#%$ing hacks for [...]
I can’t live without xScope. I use it every single day. It greatly increases my productivity and it is a pleasure to use. It does everything I want it to do, and there isn’t anything that I wish it did that it currently doesn’t.
Today is November 29th, 2007. 2,285 days (well over 6 years) have passed since Microsoft released Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), and it is still one of the most widely used browsers on the internet today.
This is the case, despite its age, the security risks it poses to the computers it’s installed on, and the [...]
We have our business email routed through Google’s Gmail with their Google Apps for businesses. I hate Gmail quite a bit. Besides its interface (which I find to be atrociously cumbersome and staggeringly unintuitive), I’m one of those people who likes managing all of my email accounts in a stand-alone email application from [...]
A new image editor from Flying Meat has just poked out its head!
A new Jacob Nielson article reveals eye-tracking results for recent banner ad studies. As should be expected, there is some really valuable stuff in there.
Obviously banner ads do work. People actually do click them. MySpace wouldn’t have sold for $580 million if they didn’t work. The real issue is that banner ads aren’t for simply looking at. The are for taking you somewhere else. You don’t spend as much time looking at something you are clicking as you do looking at something you are reading, just like you tend to spend more time sitting on the couch than you do walking through a doorway.
Ha! The first thing I thought as I read that Jason Santa Maria had moved to Brooklyn was, “Sweet! They Might Be Giants are from there.” Then he went ahead and mentioned it, too.
I don’t actually know him—so it’s none of my business—but if I ever found myself in the same situation, I always pictured myself doing the exact same thing.
After reading Craig Hockenberry’s little piece on Safari for the iPhone’s lack of support for fixed positioning—despite the fact that Safari 2 on Mac, and Safari 3 on Mac and Windows do—I got a bug up my butt to stay up late last night to find a workaround. Not only did I not find a workaround, I found that Safari on iPhone had a few bugs up it’s butt as well. Unfortunately, these bugs are much bigger and yuckier than the fixed positioning I set out to fix hack in the first place.
Today, someone emailed me an addition they wanted to be made to the “links page” of their website.