Archive for October, 2007

links for 2007-10-22
Monday, October 22nd, 2007

3spots: del.icio.us as color tool
(tags: colorscheme community color howto)

Background Image Maker
(tags: graphics javascript images webdesign tools)

YouTube - Eddie Izzard- Death Star Canteen

Google suports us! … and them … and them
Saturday, October 20th, 2007

This morning thanks to Caz, I noticed that google.co.uk appeared to be supporting England in the Rugby with the altered - high days and holidays - Google logo:

Great I thought! Go England! Google will be there in spirit later tonight as we support our boys on the field.
And then …
I thought maybe they are also [...]

‘Networking’
Saturday, October 20th, 2007

I entirely agree with this chap when he talks about being in someone’s company because you want to be, not for what advantages it can get you in life.
I have been in situations at conferences where you think you are having a nice chat with someone and then they get starstruck and leave suddenly - [...]

links for 2007-10-16
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

:-) turns 25 - CNN.com
apparently the smiley is just about 6 months older than I am! … do you remember the first time you ever used it?
(tags: interaction netiquette social)

Particletree » Visualizing Fitts’s Law
Makers of Wufoo revisit Fitt’s law when applied to web development
(tags: interaction interface software standards usability)

Adactio: Journal - Ignorance and inspiration
Jeremy lists [...]

Settling into Brighton
Sunday, October 14th, 2007

It has been roughly a month now since Simon and I have moved to Brighton. Our lovely if tiny flat has been suitably warmed and we have happily settled into Brighton life now I think. I have recently been contracting 3 days a week for Clearleft and as well as working on some personal projects [...]

links for 2007-10-10
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Ten Steps to User Persona
Dr. Lene Nielsen shares the ten steps she goes through in developing personas
(tags: design howto usability)

OAuth
Open Auth defines a standard for communication protocol between applications
(tags: development opensource programming reference standards)

links for 2007-10-09
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Tea making optimisation
Wonderfully precise layout of notes on the flickr photo to demonstrate quite a neat way of remembering who has what, I use colours of the mugs for the tea construction
(tags: tea lifehack optimisation)