Congratulations to The Guardian for making me write a blog post. It’s coming up to Christmas, and like all newspapers The Guardian have a Christmas Gift Guide. It actually looks quite nice, with well-sized images, responsive layout, good filtering and obligatory...

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My wife is a computer pragmatist. She’s tech-literate, and thinks that Linux and Firefox can fuck off because they’ll stop her from using the applications and websites she wants to. So it was a wry grin that greeted her the day she came home and told me that her workplace has installed IE7 on their PCs. The follow...

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Kathy Sierra, user experience supremo, has written a lovely post on why Tech t-shirts aren’t sexy enough – this was wonderfully exemplified at Apachecon Europe which I attended this year. As we arrived and were handed our XXL tees, the girls handing them out simply said “Sorry, they’re all really re...

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I really thought sites like this didn’t exist any more. Ads everywhere, animated gif ads at that, narrow content, tacky icons and a mid-sized content spread over 6 pages. Jesus. I clicked the “Print version” icon of an article hoping to be taken to a plain text version all on one page that might actually be useful to me. Who was I trying to kid? T...

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Over the Christmas period I got two mobile devices, a Nokia 6600 and a Sony Clié NR70V/E (I was also hoping to get a PocketPC 1940, but seeing as I’d just got a new job, cutting my daily commute down from four hours a day to just thirty minutes, it seemed a bit of a waste). I’ve b...

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