Category Archives: musing

Things are not Dead Here

Oct
8
2011

coffee at Cafe54

You may have noticed that the output from this blog has slowed over the last ten or so months from at least a post a week to if you’re lucky one post a month. Sorry about that.

I can’t really put my finger on why my blogging output has decreased.

I still like writing, I mayn’t be any good at it, but I do enjoy the process. Writing in this type of format is liberating and can be very creative. Very different from corporate report speak of business .

Still there must be some reasons for this decrease in output:

The Mobile Web is Not Going Away

Jul
10
2011

Commercial Graf

I was killing time, waiting, doing the Dad’s Taxi thing. While I waited, I was catching up on Twitter, on my phone, plus reading the various articles from my stream.

You know what is becoming a real pain point.

Non responsive designed web sites. The ones that don’t scale well on mobile devices, sadly they are still the norm.

Especially news and information sites.

Why is it the information on these sites being the major selling point and yet it seems to be very hard to access on a mobile device. it’s not like mobile is new.

Shouting about Success and Failure

Apr
10
2011

Newtown Photo Shoot - Sept 2007 graph streetart

When was the last time you read about how to apply a certain UX technique in detail. Or read about the failure of a method in particular situation, and the subsequent analysis as to why.

Yes within the web industry we have the zealots, true believers or the like. These are the people who back and promote causes towards best practice, inclusive design, standards adoption to responsive design.

Sure they will talk about their successes and sometimes document them .

Still it’s rare they talk about their failures.

Spammers are Getting Tricky

May
23
2010

If you run a Blog or any publicly facing form on the web then you now take it that spammers are a constant problem.

I have noticed over the years that the quality of the comment spammers has been improving. It is to be expect really, as the tools to combat spammers step up and gets better so the spammers will improve their scripts and tools.  Not that I like it.

Over the years you get to see the general type of spam:

  • Simple link list comment spam.