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The iPad: a missed opportunity?

Joe — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:52:05 +0000

So, Apple's rumoured iSlate, or the iPad as it turned out to be called, is finally out in the open. All respect to Apple for being so good at keeping a secret - it must be a lot of fun watching the various analysts, pundits and bloggers speculating...

Designers squabbling over praise

Joe — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:20:47 +0000

There's a curious sense of detachment that comes with observing a spat between a group of people you've no involvement with. This afternoon I've been enjoying Brendan Dawes' rant against sycophancy in UK web design circles. Here it is. I'm no...

St David’s 2: a new patron saint for Wales?

Joe — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:47:03 +0000

Two weeks ago my wife and I moved to a small village just outside Cardiff, Wales' capital, after many years of city-dwelling. Out of curiosity and (more pressingly) in need of a new watch battery, I ventured back into the city on Saturday. Although...

Remembering Ellie Greenwich

Joe — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:22:15 +0000

Ellie Greenwich, songwriter par excellence, died yesterday in a New York City hospital of a heart attack, having been admitted for pneumonia. She'll be best remembered for having written, or co-written, numerous classic songs, often with her first...

Adding Amazon ads for different countries

Joe — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:20:04 +0000

Some time ago I started looking into ways to add Amazon products to help monetise a WordPress site. My major requirement was to automatically set my affiliate IDs for a range of different Amazon stores, with products appearing depending on a user's...

Google, NY skanks and the right to libel

Joe — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:12:07 +0000

Model Liskula Cohen recently filed a lawsuit against Google because the company initially refused to reveal the name of the anonymous blogger who described her in defamatory terms on a Google-hosted blog, Skanks in NYC. Cohen then turned to the New...

Dental records, fingerprints and… breast implants?

Joe — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:10:22 +0000

Amid the shabby recent tale of the suicide of a man suspected of murdering his former wife in California, a detail caught my eye. The woman in question, Jasmine Fiore, was identified by the serial number on her breast implants. I'm not too...

The wonderful Tenori-On

Joe — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:57:00 +0000

Something of a hybrid between a musical instrument and a sequencer, the Tenori-On is an innovative product from Yamaha that looks like a whole lotta fun. Here's the Wikipedia précis: Tenori-on is an electronic musical instrument, designed and...

Adding h1 tags to your WP theme’s page headers

Joe — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:36:19 +0000

I recently coded my own theme for The Beatles Bible, which I documented elsewhere. However, earlier today I was doing a bit of reading on search engine optimisation, and learnt that many WordPress themes have the same h1 tag across the entire site -...

Thoughts on buying and selling houses – part two

Joe — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:42:10 +0000

Earlier I wrote about the difficulty of supply and demand when buying or selling a house, caused by an unwillingness or inability to accept a market value for a property. But I wanted to write about one thing that struck me repeatedly when searching...