Things that made me happy this morning: Dr. Dre’Ice Cube’s (damn you, sil!) It was a good day as a flow chart Denise Stephens talking about MS and design going live The idea of first writing the manual and then building the interface Being able to fix my twitter user detection script with an inofficial […]

Wouldn’t it be cool (and somehow creepy) to greet your visitors by their twitter name, and maybe ask them to tweet a post? It can be really easily done. Check it out yourself: Hello Twitter Demo Update: this is not working any longer. Twitter have discontinued this functionality because of the phishing opportunities it posed. […]

Things that made me happy this morning: Wallace and Gromit’s “A matter of loaf and death” (for the Brits available on iPlayer for others on bittorrent) – I just love the amount of detail the people at Aardman put into their work. Check for example that the cardoor claims “dough to door delivery” and “flour […]

I just spent an hour on the cycle in the gym watching the video of Douglas Crockford’s Web Forward presentation on my iPod touch. Douglas makes some great points about the state of the current technology for the web – especially browsers – being counterproductive to innovation. I agree with all of what Douglas says […]

During my absence I got an email that the first version of my unobtrusive Flickr badge has stopped working. The reason was that Flickr changed the output of the API. I the old version the JSON object contained an HTML description that was run through htmlspecialchars() first. I always considered this a bit of a […]