Archive for October, 2005

Scary Site Changes

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

I toyed with decorating my blog for Halloween but, lacking inspiration, I decided there was another way to ensure my blog looks suitably gruesome. Sad geek that I am, I have spent the long weekend switching from Movable Type (MT) to WordPress blogging software!
If you don’t have a clue what that means, you’re [...]

A Holiday on the Island of Jersey

Monday, October 24th, 2005

I enjoyed a fabulous week in Jersey last month. Most people I know had heard of it, but apart from cows and Bergerac springing to mind, did not know much about it. So, I thought I would try to explain its appeal here. That’s quite hard to do, not just because I’m not a writer, [...]

Lost Lip Balms

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

Does anyone else lose their lip balm as often as I do? I have lost count of the number of times this has happened. Even though I’m always using it, and therefore it should always be nearby, it just seems to vanish!
This was annoying enough when I just used to use the standard ones (Vaseline, [...]

What You Get Is What You See: Results-Oriented UI

Monday, October 10th, 2005

Usability guru Jakob Nielsen announced today that WYSIWYG is dead.
In a Monday morning moment, I thought for a second that the lover of white backgrounds, black text and blue underlined links had decided to banish this pink monstrosity from the interweb Fear not, he is actually talking about user interfaces!
The article is very interesting [...]