As a freelance artist, one of the hardest questions to answer when preparing a quote is “how long will it take?” Experience helps, of course. It’s much easier to be able to look back over similar projects and use them as a guide for timescales. But the problem is, there is no way to factor [...]

Recently .Net magazine launched a campaign to bring down Internet Explorer 6:

The premise is simple: Internet Explorer 6 is antiquated, doesn’t support key web standards, and should be phased out.

When I was developing this site, I chose to use PHP to generate browser specific CSS. This method is less than ideal, as browser sniffing is [...]

I received the following email today (I’ve removed information that could identify the company involved):

Hello. I`m Chris [redacted], Director at [redacted]. A wholly owned subsidiary of the [redacted], we were the [redacted] retail mobile phone website (launched in [redacted]) and are now the [redacted] mobile phone store in the [...]

Mac pundit John Gruber makes some very disparaging comments about Adobe on his Daring Fireball site, in an article titled The Fish Rots From the Head. In it he condemns what he sees as Adobes recent focus on sales, rather than on creating great and innovative software:

Rather than expand into untapped creative markets, [...]

An article on Wired about the dangers faced by the owners of new computers at Christmas paints a depressing picture of life for Windows users, who face a seemingly endless assault from Viruses, Adware, Spyware and other Malware.

The article ends with a depressing quote from Tony Ross, an analyst at security firm Sophos:

“At some point, [...]

Stunned by the fact that our American friends managed to give Bush another go? Well, take comfort from the fact that almost half of them feel pretty bad about it too.

I’m getting very tired of all the dubbed foreign adverts on TV.

There seem to be more and more instances of ads on TV that are clearly foreign language ads, over-dubbed into English. A small percentage of these have clearly been designed for international use, and cleverly avoid lip sync problems. However the majority are painfully [...]

Today sees yet another article on The Register about vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer allowing the installation of a particularly unpleasant bit of “spyware”. The application in question, installed on a fully patched and firewalled version of Windows XP without any interaction from the user, infested the entire system with links and pop-ups to porn sites. [...]