OK, it is Friday, so let’s have some fun. If you go to Craigslist, you will find that there is quite an extensive Personals section (more filled in the US than in Europe, admittedly). It is also full of very obvious messages, so make sure you are OK to watch the links in this article […]

Things that made me happy this morning: Always read the fine print – 7500 online shoppers sold their soul to GameStation – the retailer had a small clause in the terms and conditions about that. Finally there is a solution how you can print from your iPad Smashing Magazine released my introductory article on using […]

Things that made me happy this morning: My esteemed colleague Jonathan LeBlanc battled the flickr API and wrote a good tutorial on how to create image URLs from Flickr XML There needs to be a bit of tweaking still – “Flickr Photo” is not a good alternative text and should be the title, but this […]

Back in February, my friend Laura North – after some insistent prodding of mine – organized the first Speaking Out event. Speaking Out events are there to help people – especially women – overcome the initial fear of public speaking and give them tips and pointers on how to become a great public speaker. My […]

These are the detail notes for my talk at the mix10 conference in Las Vegas. The description of my talk was the following: Web development as we do it right now is on the way out. The future of the web is what its founders have planned a long time ago: loosely joined pieces of […]