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The Accessibility toolbar for Firefox has a feature for developers that presents a list of the event handler attributes for each element on the page. The problem is that using attributes to set events is nasty and the YUI Event library instead attaches a singleton listener to the window which isn’t shown. This main YUI […]

So Rosemarie and I have finally switched over to green power. Yay! The companies we are using are Good Energy for the Electricity and Utilita for gas.
I like Good Energy especially, they don’t supply gas, everything they do is 100% renewable. It was surprisingly cheap and should save us a little bit from British Gas. […]

Cathy made an interesting comment to me recently. We were talking about reading and she was complaining that reading an English book took days compared to hours for a Chinese one of the same length.
I was thinking about this. It seems like is because Chinese is much more information dense language. There are tens of […]

After a little bit of pain with video editing and writing transcripts (man that’s hard work) Shawn’s video of her talk at Yahoo’s offices London is now available. She talks about the new version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and some of the other W3C accessibility standards. You can see the video and the […]

43Folders has a great guest post about how to protect your iGTD trusted system. One of the running jokes about GTDers is that you can fuck with them by messing with their trusted system. Where did this task for ‘give Tom £10′ come from? Oh well it must be true… That kind of thing.
I think […]

A bit later than the rest of the world I dusted off the video of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in conversation at the D5 conference. I found it really interesting that neither Bill Gates or Steve Jobs mentioned any start-ups at D5. I realise that anything they say would probably inflate the stock price […]

One of the nice things about Macs is the ability to drag and drop stuff anywhere and it just figures out what you meant. I use iMovie to create training videos of presentations at Yahoo. Part of that means overlaying slides on top of video.
The obvious thing to do would be to drop the Keynote […]

So I signed up for Mosh to check it out. One of the first things I did when I landed was take a look at the interface. There were some interesting entires in the tags section.

Why is it that within 24 hours of anything being released on the internet someone is trying to use it […]

I had an interesting conversation earlier with Neil and Steve. We were talking about how companies treat small discrete markets and how that affects their larger markets.
My example Google is that have Ad Sense rolled out to many many markets. While many of those markets probably don’t generate much revenue individually as a group the […]

Wow. Stonehenge is an amazing place. It could be seen as just a pile of rocks but it’s so much more. Rosemarie and I took a coach trip with a private viewing a month or so back. Just us and 50 or so of our fellow discerning tourist.
Walking around the circle, being able to touch […]

I used to think PHP was just for half-arsed programmers who didn’t know how to use a strongly typed language. However I’ve been using PHP to write one of Europe’s busiest web sites for a year now. PHP is simple but effective in a lot of ways. I still find things that are really tough […]

Bubble Generation Strategy Lab have an interesting piece on The Death of 1%. While they credit this to Yahoo’s Bradley Horowitz, they explain the idea that the 1% contributor rule will die off. Their suggestion is not that 1% of people contribute it’s that people contribute to the few things they really care about.
This is […]

The BCS’s Internet Specialist Group are looking for people to contribute. I like the BCS and I think they do good work, but there aren’t too many people from the web community there.
It seems like the kinds of people who go to SXSW and FOWA are not the same people who are BCS members. This […]

I use Netnewswire to read my feeds and it has an interesting feature that lets me see what I spend most time reading. These results are from a period of about a year.

What I find interesting is that the Accessibility categories feature so highly. While I do read a lot of stuff on Accessibility I […]

One of the things that really really bugs me about my N95 is that when I’m listening to music on the tube and the wire gets tugged and the connection between the headphones and the phone is lost for a second the phone switch straight to the speakers at 100% volume.
Since Nokia is trying to […]

I’ve been a Vegan around two and a half years now. A lot of people ask me how I do it. The main secret also works with a lot of other things. Being a Vegan takes 30 seconds. 30 seconds when you buy your food, 30 seconds when you hold on to the will power […]

So, I have to be honest. I fucked up. I had some server trouble, and I did keep blogging. For a while. Then I stopped. And in my shame I didn’t want to admit I’d stopped. And the gap between posts got larger, and larger.
Lifehacker had a great post about how Jerry Seinfeld motivates himself. […]