I’ve been quiet lately – been busy. And have some cool new Playstation games. And, the roof’s going on our house. And, someone sent me a Gmail invite (thanks again, Mark!). Asterisk is asking, “What’s the Big Deal with Gmail?”. … Continue reading
Year: 2004
Best JavaScript Popups Ever
I dislike JavaScript. Well, that’s the polite version, anyway. There’s no space to go into why and I’m sure no one’s interested anyway. But the trend for JavaScript which is completely separated from the html markup – what do you … Continue reading
Infect Someone With Web Standards Today
John Allsopp’s girlfriend has written up a really cute post about Catching Web Standards. She calls her conversion from the “clueless majority” as “sexually transmitted web standards”. Now that’s funny. I didn’t get web standards quite like that… but I … Continue reading
9518 Steps
I’m participating in a study, something about how the facilities in an area impact on the exercise and travel habits of the people who live there. I’m wearing a pedometer this week, and apparently today while walking to the train … Continue reading
Communication
Last night was Communication, a joint event from AGDA and Port-80. I spoke, along with two of my PerthWeb collegues, Paul and Chris, on how designers and developers can (or can’t) get along and work together. The guys from Papercut … Continue reading
Developer Crumbs
My guy Dave has many side projects. Well, I have many side projects too… I guess we all do. Anyway, Dave’s biggest side project over the last couple of years has been DVD Collector, a freeware program for, funnily enough, … Continue reading
Tables vs CSS
There’s been a lot of discussion and hot air in the blogosphere the last couple of weeks on the issue of table-based layouts vs css layouts. I think Andy Budd started it with his Objective Look at Table Based vs … Continue reading
Full Scale and the Pink Handbag
Went to see Full Scale last night, one of my favourite bands. Their drummer Crutey used to work for PerthWeb, a million years ago. The sound in the venue sucked… there wasn’t much of a crowd as the headliners, Sunk … Continue reading