The great Peter Drucker once said this: The only thing we know about the future is that it is different.
Archive for January, 2007
Smashing Magazine has published a great list of CSS/PHP/RSS/MySQL/JavaScript/AJAX, etc, etc. sites, tutorials and more, check out their Round Up Article.
There’s a whole world of keywords and syntax tips out there that can help you maximise your google searches, take a look at this summary from googleguide.com. And if you’re particularly interested, I wrote an article once about using google for my college magazine, available here (see page 8).
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Just had a nice weekend, everything about it was good, except the occasionally dashings of pain from my wisdom teeth, one of them is almost up and the poor skin is a little bit achey. List of things that combine for a good weekend: Cinema Going (The Return) — little bit drawn out, but not [ Read More ]
Categories: personal
Project Cartoon is a nice little site, with a few nice images that you can rearrange and post your version of. My favourite version so far is “How Projects Really Work” — check it out. Also nice is this NHS Version
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If age brings wisdom, then we should really be looking to these guys: Donald Crowdis in Canada, and, Ray White in the US, both nonagenarian bloggers.
Very cool is the make your own scrape for websites offered by feed43.com, I used to scrape the local cinema timetables using a little script in php, but some of the sites were changed, and my patience disappeared – so if you use the omniplex.ie films, here’s a link to the feed, should be able [ Read More ]
You get Lacan’s point. Fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don’t, you can’t want it anymore. In order to continue to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It’s not the “it” that you want, it’s the fantasy of “it”. So, desire supports [ Read More ]
Ah, if only I could remember this more often: If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. – Albert Einstein
Categories: quotes
Okay, these ones aren’t all design related (which I poked at in the Neilsen post), but they’re better (and funnier — with nice little pictures) at Webpages That Suck. Summary: Believing people care about you and your web site. A man from Mars can’t figure out what your web site is about in less than [ Read More ]
Categories: webdesign
