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Pascal, ESC and Logical Fallacies

Posted on 25 October (1 Comment)
I was reminded this morning of a logical fallacy based on Blaise Pascal’s argument for the existence of God. Well, it wasn’t really an argument, per-se, more a reasoning based on game logic that you should consider the existence of...
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Freelancer

Posted on 9 October (2 Comments)
Alas, I missed the days when someone that new HTML could charge serious money just for making a frameset, nav for a few pages, and adding some text and background colours. The days when <font> ruled supreme (I started on...
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Outrage!

Posted on 2 October (1 Comment)
I recently wrote on Taking Web Agencies Forward summing up the vital lack of understanding that many companies that make a living developing websites have when it comes to the web. The £175,000 pile of rubbish that is the DTI’s...
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Evolution and Fundamentalism

Posted on 6 September (0 Comments)
It’s well known that ignorant ‘fundies’ such as myself don’t accept the theory of macro (atoms to man) evolution. However, that is because when one says fundamentalist that is usually taken to mean a Christian fundamentalist (and sometimes Muslims inclined...
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The Danger of Dreamweaver (Part 3)

Posted on 27 May (1 Comment)
Welcome to the final installment of my Danger of Dreamweaver series. Having seen how dangerous DW can be in the hands of a ‘web professional’ and the reasons companies choose to stick to it in parts one and two respectively,...
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The Danger of Dreamweaver (Part 2)

Posted on 11 May (1 Comment)
Welcome to the second part of my ‘Danger of Dreamweaver’ series in which I’ll be taking a look at the some of the reasons companies choose to use Dreamweaver as the web development tool of choice. In case you missed...
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The Danger of Dreamweaver (Part 1)

Posted on 1 May (4 Comments)
Looking at a list of ‘Failed Redesigns’ I thought it was about time to address an issue which i’ve noticed a lot lately. It’s the problem of Dreamweaver professionals who simply don’t have a clue about websites. Oh sure, they...
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What’s on your radar?

Posted on 20 April (2 Comments)
Tim O’Reilly has written a fantastic article on the computer book market and trends therein. The info is based on quarterly book sales. One of the most astonishing figures was for ‘Ruby’ which was up 733%, pretty much wiping the...
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IE7 - Operation MS Counter Strike

Posted on 24 March (0 Comments)
The new Internet Explorer has become an uncharacteristically open affair, with MS doing blogs, talking to web developers, hosting conferences, announcing open bug tracking and so on. I’m sure most of you realise it’s been a while, a while since...
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Origins

Posted on 26 February (6 Comments)
Tonight I heard Professor Stuart Burgess talk on the Origin of Man. With thoughts such as why the ability to smile is vital to survival, and how any of our ‘ancestors’ were able to walk without arched feet (it...
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The Future of Web Apps, in review

Posted on 9 February (0 Comments)
The web page says 'One-day conference focusing on the development technology you’ll be using tomorrow'. Well, the short of that is that you'll be using Ruby on Rails and an API! To be honest I had mixed feeling about...
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Cool to Coorporate

Posted on 21 December (0 Comments)
Okay, I accept i'm a little behind on this one. But now that i've finished my job at Bluhalo and settled down in San Francisco for Christmas I thought it's about time to share my thoughts on the Macromedia...
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My good little communist

Posted on 2 December (0 Comments)
This evening instead of our usual Bible study at church, pastor Andy Ball from Netley Christian Fellowship here in Southampton came and spoke to us about the work he and his wife do in Ukraine. In particular how the gospel...
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The case of convergent frogs

Posted on 11 August (0 Comments)
First, i'm not a scientist, second, you're probably not either, so my opinion is as good as yours Whilst reading kottke.org I came across an article about a newly discovered example of convergent evolution in some Madagascan and South American...
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