Kid666 Blog

Phew… it’s been a long time since I last blogged here.
I’m writing something based on the sure knowledge that the one thing that will never have you blogging is meaning to. The only thing that gets you blogging is actually doing it. After blogging fatigue and just being busy interrupted my blogging habit, good intentions […]

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 […]

Recently I’ve noticed a couple of post by friends of mine which have been really good pithy bits of advice. In particular Marco on Javascript and Ed Eliot on conditional Adsense. However, what struck me with these is I was either there when the topic was being discussed or has blogged about it previously.
I’m glad […]

Via Simon Willison I saw a blog post by Matt Haughey of MiFi fame. Matt is talking about How Ads Really Work particularly the traits of Superfans and Noobs.
The basic premise is that your site usage is split between regular users, and search engine fodder. The regular users look at your site more frequently but […]

So a fringe benefit of the server being down today was I noticed that my blog hasn’t been updating. I’m not sure exactly why yet, I think it’s something to do with a cron job that is mucking about with the database. I’m going to be back posting the missing items, but not all at […]

I was trying to think of what to write for BADD 2007. I’ve been trying really hard to avoid some trite comments from the Accessibility advocate that I am.
Then it occurred to me that my dyslexia is a disability as real as any other. It’s certainly something that gets a few laughs in the office. […]

CrunchNotes had some interesting thoughts on Tim O’Reilly’s Code of Conduct. While I know I reacted strongly to the abuse of Kathy Sierra I also feel that the angry mob was somewhat a bad thing.
It’s good not to let hate be acceptable, however Hitler started his political career by raising reactionary mobs against perceived threats¹. […]