Newseum: The interactive museum of news provides a summary of today’s front pages from 274 different newspapers from 36 different countries. There are only three from the UK (the Telegraph, Guardian and Mirror), but the breadth is amazing – how *do* they do it?
Month: January 2004
From on Robert Scoble’s post about meeting with the head of the IE team comes a link to jeffdav’s weblog – Jeff is a member of the IE UI team! The first IE-team blogger? Looks like it, and it looks like it’s going to be a good read.
(there’s also a follow up to Robert’s original post)
Sadly my new job has been too busy so far for me slip back into the blogging vibe, but may as well try and kick myself into gear….
After I was looking for one on Tuesday, yesterday I saw this: Sketsa is a vector drawing application based on SVG. via Erik
Seemingly free Email->SMS service from O2 via Jeremy Rayner
Connect .NET to J2EE apps with Janeva
UML Quick Reference card via Cheah Chu Yeow
Shatner to release new album via kottke.org
A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design via Cheah Chu Yeow
Stop using motherfucking href=”javascript:” pseudo-links, or Links & JavaScript Living Together in Harmony also features a nice dissing of Flash-driven sites in the comments.
Following up from my previous “Why I gave up on J2ME development” article, Russ has written an article about lack of MIDP Quality Control in which we learn nothing much has changed.
MaxDesign presentations and articles web design and graphic design. Nice walkthroughs and tutorials here. Includes the now-famous Building a site with web standards.
Britain’s Top 50 sitcoms (unordered).
I’ve not read the whole list, but the fact that both ‘Dinnerladies’ and ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme’ are in this list, as well as the pretty poor ‘Thin Blue Line’ films me with horror.
Holy crap! I’m not dead! Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas, and a Happy New Year (and other capitalisations).
Mid-December, I successfully trashed the server that hosts all of the resources this site uses (rss, images etc.). Finally back up now.
Then it was my holiday, then I changed job. Goodbye lameass ibase and hello new lord and master Zoo.
Yesterday Leigh wrote a bit about lazy photo annotation, and mentioned my RDF skin for JAlbum.
Leigh’s entry reminded me that my skin is still quite lacking in a few areas, some of which he and I spoke about via email at the time and others of which I have still to resolve. Since then though, the skin now publishes:
- an image index with links to each image
- an RDF index with links to the describing RDF file for each image
- each image separately
- each RDF image annotation file separately containing image details such as dimensions, comment, creation time/date and co-depiction
I don’t describe location, nor keywords like Bryce does in his MT photo annotation template mainly because a) I’m not happy with the current means of location description and b) I’m lazy and wordnet is just too much effort.
It’s my birthday at the weekend, so I shan’t get time to finish my photo annotations then, but as soon as I can, I will, and publish with all the new data. It’s a shame I didn’t bump into anyone FOAFy in Bristol, it would have been nice to be linked in to the co-depiction club. 🙂