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“Rants and Grumbles” Category

1st Mar 2008 I Love Fan Mail
You just can’t please some people.
26th Feb 2008 The Downside of Uploads
Another extra burden imposed by IE.
19th Feb 2008 This Is Not A Blog
Bear with me.
14th Dec 2007 iPlayer Goes To Eleven
“Why don’t you make ten a little louder?”
20th Nov 2007 Subscribophobia
Sites I can’t face reading every day.
19th Nov 2007 World of LOLcraft
By popular demand.
26th Oct 2007 In Defence of PHP Short Tags
Questioning the conventional wisdom.
27th Aug 2007 The Cheque’s Not In The Post
A business milestone of sorts.
20th Jul 2007 Scanning Sanity
Getting it working when Canon can’t.
11th Jul 2007 Project/Account Management For Dummies
Repeat after me…
4th Jul 2007 The Uncomfortable Truth About PHP
PHP6 isn’t necessarily the best successor to PHP5.
20th Jun 2007 The Language of Business
Eyes down for a full house…
18th May 2007 In a Zen State
Just a brief e-commerce grumble.
14th Apr 2007 A Framework For Discussion (Of Frameworks)
Acknowledging the difference between applications and sites.
8th Mar 2007 License to Phish
Companies that confuse users are helping fraudsters.
31st Jan 2007 End-o’-January Link Dump
The new year produced a bumper crop.
12th Jan 2007 Microsoft Kills Off CSS In Emails
A backwards step for developers and email marketers.
8th Dec 2006 Link Maintenance
Diverting some of the ‘Google juice’.
23rd Nov 2006 Taking the Blog Out of Blogging
Blogging about bloggers blogging about blogging. Ugh.
20th Oct 2006 Vulnerability
Sloppy coding and head-in-the-sand attitudes.
18th Oct 2006 Humble Pie Not On Apple’s Menu
There’s a time and a place for gloating.
13th Oct 2006 Telephone Number Usability
Death to (0) !
10th Oct 2006 ISP DNS RIP
Something to try if your surfing slows.
9th Oct 2006 They’re in my base killing my d00d
Not exactly quaking (sorry) in their boots.
4th Oct 2006 Odd One Out
“One of these things is not like the others…”
21st Sep 2006 XHTML Rules, OK?
More misguided markup advice.
18th Sep 2006 Selling Jobs
Niche recruitment and job ads with personality.
17th Aug 2006 Development Developments
I’ve switched, but I promise not to be a smug fanboy.
5th Aug 2006 Perplexing Multiplex
A usability horror movie.
14th Jul 2006 Dumpy Digg, Flabby Flickr
High calorie toolkits can weigh sites down.
24th Jun 2006 WordPress and Yahoo! Hosting Gripes
Warnings for fellow web developers.
9th May 2006 Domesday Data
The tricky business of archiving information.
6th Apr 2006 Accept No Imitation
The evils of the ‘splogosphere’.
22nd Mar 2006 The Sound of Wales
No, not a male voice choir or heavy rain.
17th Mar 2006 Bodging Trendy Vicar Resources for a Quick Win
Odd search engine traffic imminent.
6th Mar 2006 How Not To Do An Online Presentation
Softest sell ever.
5th Mar 2006 malevole Redesign: Getting Really Real
A plan for planning a project.
23rd Feb 2006 Google Page Creator (BETA, of course)
A bit like a web-based FrontPage v1.
10th Feb 2006 The Web Is Rubbish
Go on, get it off your chest.
5th Feb 2006 Banning’s Too Good For ’Em
BMW Germany gets caught trying to game Google.
23rd Nov 2005 Alexa and Your WHOIS Info
Keeping domain registration details off the web.
21st Nov 2005 Analysing Analytics
Giving Google’s new web stats a try.
17th Nov 2005 A Slight Snag With Amazon DVD Rentals
We’re supposed to be good at queuing over here.
9th Nov 2005 Splog Generator
TV theme lyrics should be used for good, not evil
6th Nov 2005 Stagnation and Overfeeding
A couple of weblog observations.
2nd Nov 2005 Some People Just Won’t Listen to Good Advice
The perils of game development and sequelitis.
1st Oct 2005 Gizmondo Proves Highly Profitable
Well, it’s certainly lucrative for a few people.
27th Sep 2005 Software Development Myths
A few misconceptions about programming.
29th Aug 2005 Coding Isn’t Important
What makes a good developer?
28th Jul 2005 Yahooulator! Yidgets
Yahoo! sneaks onto the desktop with Konfabulator.
26th Jul 2005 “Kids Love Potter, Jerry”
J.K.Rowling demonstrates how not to use Flash.
19th Jul 2005 Daftest Ever Use of a Domain Name?
CNET should know better.
25th Jun 2005 Sagem PVR6240T Review
A cheap hard disk recorder for UK digital terrestrial broadcasts.
29th May 2005 Where the Web Went Right
Ted Nelson v Tim Berners-Lee? The web wins by default.
17th May 2005 Unsettled British Weather
BBC TV forecasts now using newfangled 3D technology.
10th May 2005 To Have and to Withhold
Don’t get screwed by the wedding photographer.
30th Apr 2005 Safari So Goody (Sorry…)
First to pass Acid2; Internet Explorer still struggling with Acid0.0001 .
28th Apr 2005 Mobile Frustrations
Perhaps I’ve been spoilt by the web’s openness?
14th Apr 2005 Gmail Basic HTML View
Not as accessible as it should be.
12th Apr 2005 Amazon DVD Rentals
Initial impressions are mostly positive.
1st Apr 2005 Tinned Meat from WordPress
Search engine spamming’s bad, no matter who’s doing it.
31st Mar 2005 Totally Sucks, Dude
Better products from Sony, same old rubbish web sites.
28th Mar 2005 Time-Wasting Time
Changing clocks twice a year seems a bit odd.
19th Mar 2005 Minimalist Menus
Keeping interactive systems simple.
10th Mar 2005 Yahoo Marketing
Iffy toolbar bundling by Adobe and Macromedia.
26th Feb 2005 Not Viral, Just Rotten
MSN .: LOST
23rd Feb 2005 Retro Markup: Just Say No, Kids
XHTML pointless and overhyped? No and yes…
19th Feb 2005 Presenting the News
Wikinews is running a design contest.
7th Feb 2005 Domain Names: The ‘Evil Twin’ Episode
The foreseen hazards of multilingual URLs.
17th Jan 2005 Link Link
Even popular, web-savvy sites do stupid, web-hostile things.
8th Jan 2005 Decentralise
Is Macromedia Central going anywhere?
15th Dec 2004 Mapped Out
For some reason delivery firms still aren’t making full use of map data.
10th Dec 2004 Flash Resurrection
Macromedia’s Flash for ’phones brings an old adversary back to life.
8th Dec 2004 Mistake Number 21?
Hundreds of links to choose from. Great.
30th Nov 2004 Sorry Walkman
Yet another music player lamb to the iPod slaughter?
27th Nov 2004 Yahoo!’s Rather Large Youth Club
No smuggled-in cigarettes or cheap cider though.
26th Nov 2004 Ill-informed Journalists, Bah Humbug
Columnist’s page doesn't work properly. Blames browser.
21st Nov 2004 Viral Advertising
Third-party ad server adds malicious code to The Register.
20th Nov 2004 Focussing on the Reptilian
The perils of using simplistic market research to make decisions.
18th Nov 2004 OS X 10.3.6: Killer App
Apple temporarily downgrades Powerbook to deluxe aluminium doorstop.
17th Nov 2004 Suffering for Their Arts
The controversy over working hours in the games industry.
15th Nov 2004 “Are We Nearly There Yet?”
A minor Firefox usability grumble.
4th Nov 2004 Shop (Someone) Online
“And I would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for that pesky web site”

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