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Saturday, 29 April 2006
For those who visit here regularly, my views on search engine optimisation “techniques” are pretty much known. Recently, I engaged in an online discussion in a forum thread which attempted to get different opinions on whether SEO was in fact overrated.
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Tuesday, 25 April 2006
I have to admit that I do enjoy getting stuck into Sony and their inferior software. According to US patent 7016940, Sony now own the exclusive right to make a piece of software which will:
Make the recipient of electronic mail quickly and surely take actions desired by the sender.
The way this is supposed to work is through automatic script attachments to outgoing emails which then get automatically executed when the recipients open those emails. My first thought was along the lines of some really annoying popups endlessly reminding you that you haven’t yet replied but I’m sure I could think of other uses, if I really tried hard enough.
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Friday, 21 April 2006
One of the first problems a VB6 developer encounters when migrating to VB.NET is that the way forms are loaded has changed completely. Although this (typical) VB6 method of loading the main application form is syntactically correct, it will definitely not produce the desired result:
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Monday, 17 April 2006
We all know just what a great browser Firefox is. It has an intuitive interface. It blocks viruses, spyware, and popup advertising. It delivers web pages fast. It conforms to web standards. It uses tabbed browsing. It was built with security in mind, not as an after-thought.
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Tuesday, 11 April 2006
I know that Pope John Paul II has only been dead for a year now, and what I’m about to say could be interpreted as blasphemy, but did he get ripped off by his web designers or what? Take a look at his website and see for yourself.
First of all, you get the notorious mystery meat navigation. Or in this case, perhaps I should call it “holy meat” navigation instead. There’s the Pope, the mountain with the cross and then there’s a bunch of numbers, representing what must be significant years in his life. The idea behind this now dated (and still irritating) designers technique is to point your mouse over these links in order to supposedly get a visual confirmation that the link you’re pointing to is in fact a link.
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