Well, it is the 24th, and I am with my family celebrating Christmas. This year they managed to create the ultimate torture device: “We don’t give any big presents this year, so don’t bother getting some”. Of course everybody told me in secrecy about the massive presents they did buy for the others… Happy fact: […]

I am on my first day of end of the year holiday now, and just went through all the mail, as I will be gone till the 3rd of January to visit my family and party with some friends over New Year’s in Munich. I was happy to have a fat, round 4 figure on […]

Just stumbled upon this Translator tool using AJAX which translates text you enter in realtime into other languages. My, I don’t want to see the traffic stats of this one. Neat though.

Every year the Plain English Campaign nominates publications for being the worst and hardest to understand. The examples of this year’s winners on the BBC site are a real sight to behold, my favourite being this recipe for involuntarily electrocuting yourself: 6. Poole Lighting Limited for a sheet of instructions – “3. The switched main […]

This question pops up almost weekly on message boards, mailing lists and in chat sessions: How can I remove the ugly border around an image when it is linked? I am amazed that this is still a question that needs to be asked, but the trick to remember is that when you put an image […]