Category Archives: Geek

MySource Matrix International User Conference 2007

June 21, 2007 – 4:42 PM
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WCAG Samurai Errata

June 11, 2007 – 4:20 AM
Basically, I love it. The recommendations are practical and more in line with normal everyday common sense. It's written in normal everyday English. But I have no idea how realistic it is to expect everyone to adopt these when presented... Read More »
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Incongruity

June 8, 2007 – 4:00 PM
Today I observed a man park the most crapped-out old Beetle in all of Greater Hobart. The engine sounded like someone had trapped an asthmatic Dobermann inside. On the driver's ear, a shiny Bluetooth headset.... Read More »
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you won't fool the children of the revolution

May 2, 2007 – 9:50 PM
After receiving a DMCA takedown, Digg does what you'd expect and, uh, takes down. People get mildly pissed. Then Digg gets coated in spooge from seven million kids posting THE CODE, which is apparently the decryption key to HD DVDs... Read More »
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Click here

April 19, 2007 – 5:03 PM
Major pet peeve right there. I don't necessarily agree with the folks who say that using 'click here' might offend people who don't 'click' with a mouse. It's a fairly common phrase. I've met enough blind people who use 'seeing'... Read More »
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Let me tell you where you screwed up, kids

February 28, 2007 – 10:49 PM
Lo, like the passage of the seasons, that perennial Where-Are-The-Ladies-At? Discussion arises yet again. This time, it's Eric Meyer who drops himself in it most noticably, with a variation of that tired old thing -- 'But it's not my problem,... Read More »
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Spam!

January 13, 2007 – 11:17 PM
I've had Akismet installed about as long as I've had WordPress 2 installed. Good gravy.... Read More »
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No seriously dudes, you're kind of freaking me out now

December 3, 2006 – 10:10 PM
Attn: Microsoft! Re: Weird ads! STOP IT YOU GUYS IT'S NOT AMUSING WASN'T THE WEIRDO ZUNE 'PERSONALITY' THING ENOUGH? There's a new TV ad for Windows Vista and it's just... I don't know, random? People flap bits of cloth around,... Read More »
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Zune

November 19, 2006 – 5:33 PM
Failure: All-girl three-way, with tears. Success: Scary beard guy and friends mock your puny efforts. I don't get it.... Read More »
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Open & Closed

November 12, 2006 – 3:07 PM
The Open & Closed Project aims to create a set of useful standards, training and certification programmes for captioning, subtitling, dubbing, and audio description. You can help by giving founder Joe Clark a small donation -- all he needs is... Read More »
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