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Tuesday, 30 May 2006
I’ve admired the work of Danny Katz for quite a while now. Amongst other things, he writes some wonderfully quirky and humorous columns for “The Age”, here in Melbourne.
In last weeks column, entitled “Standing up for the underdog”, Danny defends Microsoft and asks:
Why do people hate Microsoft so much? They’ve given the world a wonderful word processor that helps us write our documents - even though that annoying office assistant keeps popping up and saying “What would you like me to do?” and you always feel like typing in “Stab yourself in the neck with your own foot”.
Read the rest. The humour is largely in the fact that it’s all true.
Friday, 26 May 2006
Since they first appeared on the scene towards the end of the last century, blogs have emerged as one of the most effective and popular means of communication. So much so, that lots and lots of businesses use them as a means of establishing and maintaining their reputation or brand.
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Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Simpleton is an open source PHP application which enables you to view Picasa2 image galleries on the web, using nothing more than the Picasa2 XML “web export” feature and an FTP client. Simpleton parses the generated XML and renders the image galleries on the fly.
If you already use Picasa and have a website then Simpleton may be for you. It does not need a database and is easy to install, configure and use. See our products page for details.
Friday, 19 May 2006
A few weeks ago, the search engine marketing firm iProspect published the findings of their study in “search engine user behaviour” which revealed a definite increase in the importance of websites getting top natural search results.
This is what I was referring to with my natural web for humans comment, on this blog as well as the original Sitepoint discussion thread.
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Tuesday, 16 May 2006
On a lighter note, I read this article on The Wall Street Journal about Hollywood and their often absurd portrayal of computing and the internet on the big screen.
Apart from the never-ending proprietary interfaces with a look and feel (complete with annoying blinking graphics and sound effects) which no-one has ever seen, let alone use, here’s a couple of my favourite specific farcical moments:
Tom Cruise in “Mission Impossible” manages to send an email message to that “Max” bloke, even though the email address is "Max@Job 3:14". Yes, that’s right. Not only is the address missing the domain name but it’s also got illegal characters in it. Jeff Goldblum in “Independence Day” defeating the entire Alien population with his Macintosh by infecting their advanced computer systems with a virus which he somehow manages to transmit because the aliens just happen to be using the same wireless protocol as us humans.
There are quite a number more, of course. A general propensity for ridiculously fast web searches which produce instantaneous results and passwords which are somehow always cracked in under three tries also spring to mind.
Do you have any that you found to be particularly stupid?
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