Things you can do with a knackered garden hose

Posted on July 17, 2008

and it never mentions torture once!. Slackers

Caffeine test

Posted on July 17, 2008

Created by OnePlusYou

Pah, I’ve only just started.

Adsense hates me

Posted on July 15, 2008

Whenever I attempt to sign in to my old adsense account it isn’t recognised as a valid account, whenever I attempt to sign up for a new account it tells me I have one, whenever I fill in the forms to say I can’t log in I get an auto-response telling me to use the account I can’t log in on, whenever I get an email from a real person it tells me to log in to the page that won’t work and use the account that doesn’t work and no I can’t have an new account I already have one.

Serif or Sans?

Posted on July 15, 2008

Errrrm either?

Back when I taught interface design at college I couldn’t find any strong evidence either way but said to my students I preferred Sans-serif on screen and Serif in print and cited lots of work supporting that view. Now somebody has done the hard work of bringing all the research together and it’s exactly as I thought, some people in some cases suffer less stress reading their preferred style. At least that’s cleared up :)

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Jonny Cash remixed

Posted on July 14, 2008

I am so having some of this.

So important…

Posted on July 14, 2008

…I had to say it twice.

The Oyster card may have been hacked but it’s secure because the makers won’t let you say it’s not.

Carry on everybody, business as usual.

It’s been a while since I blogged on CSS

Posted on July 14, 2008

About 4 or 5 years I imagine and a couple of domains back.

A great set of examples of paragraph typography that all web guys should take a looksy at.

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Daily Nerd News

Posted on July 11, 2008

Get your fix of Daily Nerd News at a familiar URL. Share the news.

Tour news EPO!

Posted on July 11, 2008

Manuel Beltran of team Liquigas has tested positive for EPO (subject to B test, blah, blah, blah) of all things, how retro.

“There are not just traces of EPO, there is EPO,” said the head of AFLD.

bbc news, the comic

How not to deliver a basket of cookies containing LSD to the police.

Posted on July 11, 2008

Picture the scene for your community service you are forced to work for the Mother Against Drink Driving campaign. Why this campaign exists is a mystery, presumably there is an assumption that mothers generally sit on the fence when it comes to drink driving but anyway I digress. Knowing your duties include delivering cookies to cops you and your friends are having a smoke and discussing ways to subvert your duty when you stumble upon the crime of the century. Sprinkle LSD over the cookies. What could go wrong with a plan decided upon in a haze of dope smoke?

It was discovered the cookies contained LSD after staff at Blue Mound thought the cookies smelled of marijuana and sent them for testing.

Cops have a nose for this sort of thing. You think they haven’t had hash cookies dropped by a million times before?

The moral of the story is simple.

If you plan on delivering a basket of trippy cookies to the police don’t smoke a ton of dope on the way.

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