Back to Performancing?

After reading Jakob Nielsen’s latest article on Style Sheets, I thought, okay, I know designers are guilty of fixing font sizes so that everybody without perfect screen vision won’t be able to adjust the size of the text they’re trying to read. So how do we alter our style? We use relative (percentage) size specifications….

… is being able to file my Income Tax on a Mac. Using Firefox. And doing it in 1 minute. I must qualify that this happened after several attempts to log in. First, using Firefox – when the system kept taking me back to the home page instead – then Safari, where nothing progressed, then…

Who hasn’t tried Firefox before, but might if I sent them an invitation? Let me know and we can get our names immortalised in Firefox 2. Note: I can only send this to one friend. So make it good.

I am working on more detailed blog posts on the following topics, which are of great /increasing interest to me: Web 2.0 – How it is the mindset (of sharing, collaboration, contribution etc) and not just the technology that makes something truly Web 2.0 How planning to have ‘viral marketing’ can quite often be an…

Disturbing politics. Today I touched on material that was certainly not relaxing. I continued reading Guardian journalist Greg Palast‘s book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy [rated 4.6 out of 5 stars with 74 votes so far], and was both disturbed and enlightened – probably because I didn’t expect crooked politicians to be even more…

My inbuilt thrift-o-meter kicked in, and I decided NOT to buy most of the books on my list this morning. When I flipped through the web design book, I didn’t think I really needed the new edition. Besides, why buy it for the extra chapter on XML when I could just buy a book on…