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
13 Jul 2006
It just occurred to me that the most frustrating thing about time-travel for anyone post-Intellectual-Property law would be the discovery of various things they themselves had previously identified as “wouldn’t-it-be-great-if” concepts. Case in point, Caller-ID: “Wouldn’t it be great if you could tell who was calling before answering?” Yes, it is. Everyone with a mobile (pretty much) has this. Imagine if you’d thought of it a little more seriously when you lived just a short while after Bell/Meucci/Reis invented/stole/plagiarised the telephone.
12 Jul 2006
Porridge this morning. I’m not usually a porridge person but it looked warming. I went to microwave it and laughed when the finished message displayed on it’s screen (“Meal is ready”) as I had extrapolated “ready” before it scrolled across the screen to be “Readymix” (that is, a cement company in Australia and various other countries). It was surprisingly nice for the thick brown-grey coloured substance that it is.
12 Jul 2006
Let me take this opportunity to remark that I’ve never seen One True Layout working satisfactorily apart from the instance wherein it was originally demonstrated. It is singularly the most frustrating, impotent, over-rated, and deceptively-named CSS technique ever published. No offense.
11 Jul 2006
And was contemplating writing variously about potential reasons why, but then decided that I couldn’t be bothered and didn’t know enough about her anyway. That said, I still don’t think I’m Virginia Woolf (if only on account of my being male, decidedly straight, and opposed in some way or another to the influence of feminism upon society, even recognising Woolf’s own objection to that term).
09 Jul 2006
Awesome service, but I just checked out how much it cost me. Was on the phone whilst away for two minutes and nine seconds, and it cost a little over $12. Ouch.