How geek are you?

I logged in to Gmail this morning to discover that a large number of bounced emails from email addresses I don’t know, in response to an email that I never sent. It was a fake AdWords email asking these strangers to click on links to modify their AdWords account details. But when you hover over…

This is a little late, but I thought I should draw your attention to the list of winners at the 18th Annual Codie Awards. Winners include Macromedia (thrice), IBM (thrice), Apple, and Adobe. It is interesting to note that Microsoft didn’t win in any categories, although they did get a few nominations.

Finally after all these years I got to meet Jeffrey Zeldman face to face. He’s a really nice guy and I was flattered that he remembered who I am. I told him we started a Web Standards Group in Singapore but it kinda fizzled out. But now I’m all inspired to get our group going…

Macromedia’s senior product manager, Lucian Beebe, demonstrates how easy it is to motion tween an object in Flash MX 2004 Professional. There were lots of other cool features too. Pity there wasn’t much time to see them all. Benjy Choo of Kinetic Interactive – arguably Singapore’s best web design company, specialising in Flash. We got…

Thanks to Kristen, who granted me one of my geek wishes by getting me a Gmail account! I’d shout “Yahoo!” except that it would be entirely inappropriate 🙂

A Jan 2003 Wired article highlights the conflicts facing the world’s most popular search engine – even as it continues to post millions in profits. Everybody wants a piece of the Google pie, but not all are getting it. For one, I find the notion of using search engine optimisers amusing. In the pre-Google days,…