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• Flog the alive horse instead

  We get told to "innovate" a lot in the web industry. New ideas, practices and technologies are thrown at us on a daily basis, each post in your feed reader as innovative as the next. In terms of design we're looking everywhere but at a screen for inspiration, using all sorts of CSS trickery to enhance our pages for a lucky half dozen, and using the latest trendy real-world texture to make our sites stand out. But if everyone's doing the next innovative thing, how original can we really be?

  Read the rest of this entry, Flog the alive horse instead // Posted on 12/06/08 // 1 comment

• Being overly anal with HTML enduces rage

  In the strange lands of HTML, semantics purism has been a fairly hot topic of late. With the help of some slightly more advanced CSS2 selectors, web developers have been able to start cutting out those unnecessary divisions and nasty classes, but are they just making more work for themselves?

  Read the rest of this entry, Being overly anal with HTML enduces rage // Posted on 02/04/08 // 4 comments

• Queuing for 3 days to buy a phone?! Someone save me

  The world is officially going crazy. Hundreds of people queuing for up to three days on end for a phone! If anyone can tell me a decent reason for giving up friends, family, home and any sort of comfort for this amount of time in order to purchase a phone (overpriced as it is), I'll give you a pat on the back.

  Read the rest of this entry, Queuing for 3 days to buy a phone?! Someone save me // Posted on 30/06/07 // 3 comments