“Rants and Grumbles” Category
| 17 Aug 2010 | AOL Keywords 2.0 Back to the ’90s with Facebook. |
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| 17 May 2010 | Still Happy With Facebook..? A matter of trust. |
| 07 Apr 2010 | Early April Link Dump Downloads, zombies, pub lunches, planes, envelopes and more. |
| 22 Mar 2010 | Twittering On @mattround Waffles for lunch |
| 17 Mar 2010 | Login/Log In, Logout/Log Out “Pedants Corner”/“Pedants’ Corner” |
| 20 Jan 2010 | Point and Shoot First-person shooter game controllers. |
| 10 Dec 2009 | Why I Deleted My Facebook Account Anti-social networking. |
| 30 Nov 2009 | Still Licensed To Phish More clueless behaviour from banks. |
| 16 Nov 2009 | Warring Factions Design by (squabbling) committee. |
| 04 Nov 2009 | Early November Link Dump Killjoys, 3D, Drupal, SMS, toilet rolls and more. |
| 22 Oct 2009 | The Cynical Web Developer’s Manifesto Three simple tenets. |
| 22 Sep 2009 | September Link Dump Demos, tech support, Welsh Jedi, IE6, dating and more. |
| 02 Jun 2009 | Early June Link Dump Movies, ads, spiders, accessibility, games and more. |
| 22 Apr 2009 | “We don’t serve your type here” The fuss over font embedding. |
| 14 Oct 2008 | A House of Cards The perils of dependencies. |
| 23 Sep 2008 | Bad Ideas That Refuse To Die Persistent web site mistakes. |
| 19 Sep 2008 | For Fax Sake Print now, pay later. |
| 17 Sep 2008 | Postal Primate The chimp is dead; long live the chimp. |
| 07 Aug 2008 | Early-August Link Dump Idiots, 3D, nonsense, gender, physics and more. |
| 17 Jul 2008 | Mid-July Link Dump Patterns, Flash, comics, words, toilets and more. |
| 01 Mar 2008 | I Love Fan Mail You just can’t please some people. |
| 26 Feb 2008 | The Downside of Uploads Another extra burden imposed by IE. |
| 19 Feb 2008 | This Is Not A Blog Bear with me. |
| 14 Dec 2007 | iPlayer Goes To Eleven “Why don’t you make ten a little louder?” |
| 20 Nov 2007 | Subscribophobia Sites I can’t face reading every day. |
| 19 Nov 2007 | World of LOLcraft By popular demand. |
| 26 Oct 2007 | In Defence of PHP Short Tags Questioning the conventional wisdom. |
| 27 Aug 2007 | The Cheque’s Not In The Post A business milestone of sorts. |
| 20 Jul 2007 | Scanning Sanity Getting it working when Canon can’t. |
| 11 Jul 2007 | Project/Account Management For Dummies Repeat after me… |
| 04 Jul 2007 | The Uncomfortable Truth About PHP PHP6 isn’t necessarily the best successor to PHP5. |
| 20 Jun 2007 | The Language of Business Eyes down for a full house… |
| 18 May 2007 | In a Zen State Just a brief e-commerce grumble. |
| 14 Apr 2007 | A Framework For Discussion (Of Frameworks) Acknowledging the difference between applications and sites. |
| 08 Mar 2007 | License to Phish Companies that confuse users are helping fraudsters. |
| 31 Jan 2007 | End-o’-January Link Dump The new year produced a bumper crop. |
| 12 Jan 2007 | Microsoft Kills Off CSS In Emails A backwards step for developers and email marketers. |
| 08 Dec 2006 | Link Maintenance Diverting some of the ‘Google juice’. |
| 23 Nov 2006 | Taking the Blog Out of Blogging Blogging about bloggers blogging about blogging. Ugh. |
| 20 Oct 2006 | Vulnerability Sloppy coding and head-in-the-sand attitudes. |
| 18 Oct 2006 | Humble Pie Not On Apple’s Menu There’s a time and a place for gloating. |
| 13 Oct 2006 | Telephone Number Usability Death to (0) ! |
| 10 Oct 2006 | ISP DNS RIP Something to try if your surfing slows. |
| 09 Oct 2006 | They’re in my base killing my d00d Not exactly quaking (sorry) in their boots. |
| 04 Oct 2006 | Odd One Out “One of these things is not like the others…” |
| 21 Sep 2006 | XHTML Rules, OK? More misguided markup advice. |
| 18 Sep 2006 | Selling Jobs Niche recruitment and job ads with personality. |
| 17 Aug 2006 | Development Developments I’ve switched, but I promise not to be a smug fanboy. |
| 05 Aug 2006 | Perplexing Multiplex A usability horror movie. |
| 14 Jul 2006 | Dumpy Digg, Flabby Flickr High calorie toolkits can weigh sites down. |
| 24 Jun 2006 | WordPress and Yahoo! Hosting Gripes Warnings for fellow web developers. |
| 09 May 2006 | Domesday Data The tricky business of archiving information. |
| 06 Apr 2006 | Accept No Imitation The evils of the ‘splogosphere’. |
| 22 Mar 2006 | The Sound of Wales No, not a male voice choir or heavy rain. |
| 17 Mar 2006 | Bodging Trendy Vicar Resources for a Quick Win Odd search engine traffic imminent. |
| 06 Mar 2006 | How Not To Do An Online Presentation Softest sell ever. |
| 05 Mar 2006 | malevole Redesign: Getting Really Real A plan for planning a project. |
| 23 Feb 2006 | Google Page Creator (BETA, of course) A bit like a web-based FrontPage v1. |
| 10 Feb 2006 | The Web Is Rubbish Go on, get it off your chest. |
| 05 Feb 2006 | Banning’s Too Good For ’Em BMW Germany gets caught trying to game Google. |
| 23 Nov 2005 | Alexa and Your WHOIS Info Keeping domain registration details off the web. |
| 21 Nov 2005 | Analysing Analytics Giving Google’s new web stats a try. |
| 17 Nov 2005 | A Slight Snag With Amazon DVD Rentals We’re supposed to be good at queuing over here. |
| 09 Nov 2005 | Splog Generator TV theme lyrics should be used for good, not evil |
| 06 Nov 2005 | Stagnation and Overfeeding A couple of weblog observations. |
| 02 Nov 2005 | Some People Just Won’t Listen to Good Advice The perils of game development and sequelitis. |
| 01 Oct 2005 | Gizmondo Proves Highly Profitable Well, it’s certainly lucrative for a few people. |
| 27 Sep 2005 | Software Development Myths A few misconceptions about programming. |
| 29 Aug 2005 | Coding Isn’t Important What makes a good developer? |
| 28 Jul 2005 | Yahooulator! Yidgets Yahoo! sneaks onto the desktop with Konfabulator. |
| 26 Jul 2005 | “Kids Love Potter, Jerry” J.K.Rowling demonstrates how not to use Flash. |
| 19 Jul 2005 | Daftest Ever Use of a Domain Name? CNET should know better. |
| 25 Jun 2005 | Sagem PVR6240T Review A cheap hard disk recorder for UK digital terrestrial broadcasts. |
| 29 May 2005 | Where the Web Went Right Ted Nelson v Tim Berners-Lee? The web wins by default. |
| 17 May 2005 | Unsettled British Weather BBC TV forecasts now using newfangled 3D technology. |
| 10 May 2005 | To Have and to Withhold Don’t get screwed by the wedding photographer. |
| 30 Apr 2005 | Safari So Goody (Sorry…) First to pass Acid2; Internet Explorer still struggling with Acid0.0001 . |
| 28 Apr 2005 | Mobile Frustrations Perhaps I’ve been spoilt by the web’s openness? |
| 14 Apr 2005 | Gmail Basic HTML View Not as accessible as it should be. |
| 12 Apr 2005 | Amazon DVD Rentals Initial impressions are mostly positive. |
| 01 Apr 2005 | Tinned Meat from WordPress Search engine spamming’s bad, no matter who’s doing it. |
| 31 Mar 2005 | Totally Sucks, Dude Better products from Sony, same old rubbish web sites. |
| 28 Mar 2005 | Time-Wasting Time Changing clocks twice a year seems a bit odd. |
| 19 Mar 2005 | Minimalist Menus Keeping interactive systems simple. |
| 10 Mar 2005 | Yahoo Marketing Iffy toolbar bundling by Adobe and Macromedia. |
| 26 Feb 2005 | Not Viral, Just Rotten MSN .: LOST |
| 23 Feb 2005 | Retro Markup: Just Say No, Kids XHTML pointless and overhyped? No and yes… |
| 19 Feb 2005 | Presenting the News Wikinews is running a design contest. |
| 07 Feb 2005 | Domain Names: The ‘Evil Twin’ Episode The foreseen hazards of multilingual URLs. |
| 17 Jan 2005 | Link Link Even popular, web-savvy sites do stupid, web-hostile things. |
| 08 Jan 2005 | Decentralise Is Macromedia Central going anywhere? |
| 15 Dec 2004 | Mapped Out For some reason delivery firms still aren’t making full use of map data. |
| 10 Dec 2004 | Flash Resurrection Macromedia’s Flash for ’phones brings an old adversary back to life. |
| 08 Dec 2004 | Mistake Number 21? Hundreds of links to choose from. Great. |
| 30 Nov 2004 | Sorry Walkman Yet another music player lamb to the iPod slaughter? |
| 27 Nov 2004 | Yahoo!’s Rather Large Youth Club No smuggled-in cigarettes or cheap cider though. |
| 26 Nov 2004 | Ill-informed Journalists, Bah Humbug Columnist’s page doesn't work properly. Blames browser. |
| 21 Nov 2004 | Viral Advertising Third-party ad server adds malicious code to The Register. |
| 20 Nov 2004 | Focussing on the Reptilian The perils of using simplistic market research to make decisions. |
| 18 Nov 2004 | OS X 10.3.6: Killer App Apple temporarily downgrades Powerbook to deluxe aluminium doorstop. |
| 17 Nov 2004 | Suffering for Their Arts The controversy over working hours in the games industry. |
| 15 Nov 2004 | “Are We Nearly There Yet?” A minor Firefox usability grumble. |
| 04 Nov 2004 | Shop (Someone) Online “And I would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for that pesky web site” |