I’ve delivered simple, clear and easy-to-use services for 20 years, for startups, scaleups and government. I write about the nerdy bits here.
— @joahua
In the last 48 hours (or thereabouts), I’ve hit the number 1 spot on Google for a handful of terms. These are the ones I’m aware of:
and probably a handful of others. Go team ego! I mean… SEO… yes. *shuts up*
Next up, I need to do something about “Joah”, for which I’m not even on the map, and then the ambitions for real World Domination may take over, as I work towards becoming the number one Josh and Joshua in the world! Muwahahahaha!
Discussing the design principles and values employed by Microsoft,
…millions of people worldwide put up with it…
So incredibly true. That wasn’t even completely out of context, either…
A friend needed a copy of an order form yesterday, so I scanned it all in, and couldn’t be bothered to PDF it. Actually, that’s not quite true. I had an itching to play with some code, so it was scratched in a way that PDF’ing wouldn’t have managed. ;-)
It’s basically just five scanned pages presented in a horizontal aspect, allowing you to scroll page-to-page as would occur on real paper, yet, by the use of the print styles I’d setup, it allows the page to be printed in a normal manner (i.e. images aren’t getting cut in half because they go off horizontally!). I’ve done a spot of work with Print stylesheets before, but this is the first exciting and relevant application I’ve had for it. There’s also a moderately workable print media stylesheet on this blog, if anyone felt so inclined.
I can’t recall if that was something which shipped with WordPress, or whether I customised it based off another website… I recall tinkering with it, but that’s about all.
If you’ve got a spare moment, click over to here and “Print Preview”. Unless you’re running Netscape 4 or something equally stupid, it should work okay… comment and let me know how it is.
I’m getting to hate Saturdays. The real estate dude is about to come over, and I’m going to be kicked out of the house so that random people can take a gander. For some reason, they didn’t like the idea of selling the house for Planet Banana – I have no idea why not!
The real estate guy cited problems with a commission on the sale of a planet, or something. I don’t know, other people seem to be able to do it just fine…
A technique for saving batteries.
Or, how exams saved batteries. Yes, that’d be it.
I just realised how long it’s been since I charged my phone. I like to think it has a decent battery life, although not as good as some, but still — it’s generally pretty good. My usual charge cycle is about 3 or 4 days, with me placing it on the charger only as it starts beeping and going into spasms saying “FEED ME!!!”. Well, not quite… you get the picture.
So when I realised that I’d last charged it on Sunday night, I was a tad suprised. The battery display meter has three segments, and it’s currently sitting on two. Phwoar. That’s Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday — We’re on Saturday. I think I’m about to make my first week without a recharge!
As I scanned the phone, my battery meter fell to one bar… still impressive. That said, given usage patterns imposed by exams this week, perhaps I should change my phones screen display message…
