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Entries from August 2007

Ditch IE. Any Version.

August 25th, 2007 · No Comments

If the thousands of office users still stuck in IE6 under a tight IT policy find sites with crazy layout issues - their first thought won’t be ‘Damn IE6 - why can’t you process CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) rules properly’ - they’ll just think either their computer is broken or the website they are on [...]

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Isn’t BlackBooks English?

August 25th, 2007 · No Comments

He managed also to piss off all the Irish people, all at once.
— Suzanne, a lovely blond lady, after I told her today that I thought Black Books was representative for the UK and that Black Books made me decide to move over here. :D

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Search Hadsn’t Changed

August 25th, 2007 · No Comments

The main conclusion from these observations is that one cannot rely on search as a mechanism for leading users to the information they need.
— Jakob Nielsen, Report from a 1994 Web Usability study.

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Virgin Condoms

August 25th, 2007 · No Comments

I know of only one other instance of Virgin acquiring a company but not rebranding it: that was Mates Condoms. But I don’t think Virgin Condoms would have worked, somehow…
— Andrew McGrath, Director of Marketing and strategy, NTL Telewest in Business Magazine

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Where Will I Publish Next Year

August 24th, 2007 · No Comments

Where I will publish in a year’s time is anyone’s guess. However, what you can bank on is that I will have even more community accounts than I do now.
— Steve Rubel on the multi-profile life, 08.24.2007

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Drama, Did I Say Drama?

August 19th, 2007 · No Comments

So yesterday I thought I were going to enjoy a relaxed evening in front of the monitor without doing much else than usual… work. But I had forgotten about cow1.
It must have been around 8PM when she hit me up with a text, asking if I were going to pub later and wanted to watch [...]

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