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I work as a web designer in Belfast, and I live by the sea in a shoe. You can see me here, doing my livejournal pose as idoru called it. If you need to you can email me at carisenda -at- gmail -dot- com.
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Recommended Viewing
- 300
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Does exactly what it says on the (comic book) tin. Loved it. - Little Miss Sunshine
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Very funny, disturbing (the beauty pageant) and completely messed up -- but in a good way. - Laputa: Castle in the Sky†
Story great, characterization a little on the weak side -- though the big robots are cool. - Porco Rosso
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Stylish, funny, exciting. - Grave of the Fireflies†
Very sad, which was a little unexpected since I didn't know much about it before watching it. Can be a little too slow in places though, otherwise it's very good. - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind†
The story can get a little dense at times what with the various factions, but still really enjoyable, inventive and engaging. - X-Men: The Last Stand
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Opportunity, talent, money - all blown. Over 3 films X-Men has hinted of something great that could have been, this last one says "No, sorry - not going to happen". Bah.
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Movable Type Template Size
If you're ever using larger than normal templates in Movable Type you may find the bottom of the file gets truncated. This is most likely because the column type in the MySQL is set to TEXT by default, and needs bumped up to MEDIUMTEXT or maybe even LONGTEXT.
0 CommentsSeptember 22, 2004
Google Web Publishing
Google's Picasa, Hello and Blogger represent most of the basic tools to publish on the web. They only lack a web browser, and that seems to be next on the list according to a New York Post article. Jason Kottke has talked at length about what he calls the Google Operating System, where Google's range of web apps expand to represent a remote OS, this is maybe one more step along that path.
Given Google's reach into the world of the common user you can expect any browser it builds to erode Internet Explorer's >95% share of the browser market. That's a good thing assuming the Google browser interprets W3C specs properly.
If you're looking for a good, no, great browser, Mozilla Firefox is your friend. Tabbed browing, pop-up blocking, live bookmarks, smarter search - and all in a user friendly package that's a cinch to install. Install Firefox, you won't regret it!
0 CommentsSeptember 20, 2004
YAPC Europe 2004 - Belfast
This is way too late, but YAPC Europe is in Belfast this week - today, tomorrow and Friday (Wednesday 15th to Friday 17th September) - with, among others, Sixapart giving a talk on Thursday (as well as being a conference sponsor).
0 CommentsSeptember 15, 2004
'Tis The Season
The Christmas season is traditionally a boon for shops and it's no different for online shops. 37signals have put together a useful collection of ideas for online stores this Christmas. This stuff is solid gold, it may seem like common sense but you'd be surprised how a lot of common sense gets thrown out the window in the run up to Christmas.
Making that extra special effort, taking a bit more time over your site design, the customer picks up on it, gets that warm winter feeling inside and buys something for under the tree. :)
Also available: Contingency Design - a 37signals white paper on taking care of things when they go wrong.
0 CommentsSeptember 2, 2004