I’ve just been trying Google Wave after I was graciously invited by someone awesome, and it looks like it’s really hard on your computer’s system resources when you’re trying to view a big Wave. Here’s my browser, struggling to render a big Wave:
I was trying to read a random Wave that had 129 other users [...]
Linked from a Hacker News “Ask HN” post about how to pick colours for websites, I was inspired by this Flickr image showing how to create a colour scheme from a photo.
I decided I’d try this colour scheme from nature business, and because I’m lazy I took a picture with my phone without [...]
This video from the guys at CommonCraft does a great job of explaining what Phishing scams are and how they work:
Today somebody sent me a link to MIS Australia’s article about some ridiculous filters the ever-paternalistic Australian government is trying to foist on the Australian public for our own protection. Like, thanks you guys.
Anyway I got feisty when I realised that you can’t cut and paste from the Australian Financial Review’s MISAustralia website. As soon [...]
I’m listening to an IT Conversations podcast of Rasmus Lerdorf (the guy who created PHP) speaking about PHP, and I have to say I’m pretty surprised to hear him say “I hate programming with a passion — I created PHP to avoid programming.”
Rasmus says that he wrote PHP while building a web-based system for Toronto [...]
The Buzzword
Like any good buzzword (say…agile — or is that AGILE? No, it isn’t.), Web 2.0 is overused and bastardised to mean a thousand different things by some groups of people, and at the same time it’s mocked and dismissed as just another buzzword by others.
OK so it’s March 2008 and Web 2.0 is [...]
Whoo yeah I’m excited!
About two months ago I got a new Apple Macbook Pro. I love it, it’s rad, I love using it etc. But something that’s been bugging me no end is that I don’t know the shortcut key to jump to the address bar (where you type http://…etc) in Firefox. In [...]
If patience truly is a virtue, then the guys who made these two videos are really virtuous. Check out this Line Rider insanity:
Yes it’s crazy huh? Well this is nutser in a more hardcore nerd way. A guy has built a robot that can solve a Rubik’s cube! It’s called Rubot. Apparently [...]
As a grammar nazi I notice trivial minutiae like this. Lately I’ve started using GMail to store and archive all my mail so that I can always get to my email no matter what computer I’m on. Maybe I’m lazy, or maybe I’m obsessive.
Anyway, since GMail started a couple of years ago, the [...]
Tonight I was disappointed to find that I wasn’t the first person to know about Wikimapia. It’s a collaboratively edited Google Maps mashup that lets you record places of interest with a description and tags. It’s the coolest thing ever.