Category: inspiration

  • A Missive to the iPad Haters 30 January 2010

    I wouldn't call myself an Apple fanboy, but I like to think that I've mellowed a little bit in my old(ish) age. The face melting vitriol which I normally reserved for shiny Web 2.0 sites in beta invitation mode has ...

  • I'm 5 years old 28 November 2008

    It looked okay in Mozilla Firebird, but I carefully checked it in Internet Explorer 5 again. All of the floats seemed to be shepherding their content perfectly, so I uploaded the final version of my CSS file. ...

  • Handwritten Typographers 08 July 2008

    Hit pause for a moment and consider how greatly we – people in the digital age – are indebted to typographers. Almost all of our visual communication is delivered using the products of their craft: ...

  • Quote of the day 13 November 2006

    "True happiness is only appreciated when it's lost." "True happiness is only appreciated when it's lost." ...

  • The emerging Australian Web community 08 November 2006

    One of the things I've always envied about the United States is the sense of community amongst Web developers there. It seems like you could duck out for some coffee on the streets of San Francisco and see about 27 ...

  • Heroes of the Web 04 November 2004

    Sir Tim invented it , Dave Siegel killed it , Jakob made it usable and the samurai got it standardised . There have been some great people who have made some huge changes for the Web. ...

  • Design your own way 17 August 2004

    Last week I was depressed. (Don't worry, this won't be an angst-ridden LiveJournal entry; I was just at an imagination impasse) It was around about 3AM on Thursday that my frustration reached its peak. I was ...

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