Beth Granter

Girl Geeks get their knickers in a twist about cleavage

Beth Granter — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:36:35 +0000

Last night I went to my first London Girl Geek Dinner. The first talk by Dr Elisabeth Kelan involved lots of statistics from her research about gender and working in teams, with the main point being that a 50:50 split works best. She was criticised by someone in the audience that her statistics [...]

100% Black CMYK is NOT #000000 ! Plus, me in a music video

Beth Granter — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:09:11 +0000

I just had a major revelation. The CMYK value for pure black ink, 0.0.0.100, 100% black, K, is NOT, I repeat, NOT the same as the hexadecimal pure black value of #000000 ! I can’t believe I didn’t know this before. But thinking about it - it makes sense. Pure K, Key, Black, is real-life [...]

43Things suspended my account!

Beth Granter — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:43:38 +0000

Today I wanted to log in to my 43Things account so I could show my new colleagues what the site was all about, but was told my username or password were incorrect. So I followed the ‘forgot username’ procedure and 43Things emailed me ‘bethgranter’ as my username to my registered email account [...]

Get Satisfaction - customer service / user support

Beth Granter — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:49:19 +0000

Hello! I did a quick review about Get Satisfaction, the online user support / customer service website over on my work blog for the SPLASH project… some people who usually read this blog might find that post interesting.

Facebook hookup anomaly

Beth Granter — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:00:44 +0000

When you accept a friend request on Facebook, you’re given the option to add detail about how you know that person. You used to be able to add ‘We hooked up’ here. Today I discovered that this option is missing: Panicking that my whole list of hookups would have disappeared from Facebook, I rushed [...]

spock is rubbish at identity politics as well

Beth Granter — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:34:46 +0000

And here’s another example of a failed sign up dialogue in terms of identity politics and gender diversity: Radio buttons? With only two options and I have to choose one? And the default is Male? So I’m forced to declare myself as one or the other. How rubbish. Here’s a couple of [...]

Custom size del.icio.us Widgetbox widget for Ning (and others)

Beth Granter — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:50:09 +0000

So I made a custom size del.icio.us Widgetbox widget for my Ning profiles, but Widgetbox won’t put it in their gallery because the links don’t open in a new window. I added the code they provide to make it do this but it appears not to work. I think because the links are [...]

Adding widgets on my Ning profile page

Beth Granter — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:49:15 +0000

So I’m a member of a few Ning sites and I really like it. In trying to edit my profile, I have managed to import my regular blog here into the standard Ning RSS widget. But you only get one Ning RSS widget. So for a work-related Ning community like ELESIG, I wanted to show [...]

Google accounts annoyance

Beth Granter — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:04:26 +0000

This is annoying. I’m trying to sort out some of my Google groups, which are all registered to my Yahoo email address. But I also have a Gmail account which I want to combine with my Yahoo Google account. Google will let me add alternative email addresses to my Yahoo Google account, [...]

Plaxo loses for gender diversity

Beth Granter — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:46:28 +0000

Plaxo just put me off by forcing me to choose my gender: The only options were male or female. C’mon Plaxo, get with the program! This is the modern day and you should know better than to only give us these limiting binary options with which to define ourselves (and must you force us [...]

Zend Form - custom decorators

Beth Granter — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:02:14 +0000

So I’m learning PHP and Zend Framework and MVC stuff. And I just figured out how to do a custom decorator on Zend_Form to change the way the form is written to HTML. The default puts each element label and input box into dd and dl tags. I just wanted to put [...]

Blog tag / eight random things

Beth Granter — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:17:08 +0000

I got tagged (by Rowan Stanfield) in a game of blog tag a while ago and I only just got around to doing this. So here’s 8 random things about me. 1. I’ve done a round-the-world trip twice. My favourite cities have been Melbourne, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and New York (and of course [...]

Sausages: Freestyle LDN art show in York

Beth Granter — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:15:11 +0000

I’m going to be exhibiting six of my illustrations at Freestyle LDN art show in York on 26th April 2008. Here’s my latest illustration of a man eating a sausage. It’s from a tinned sausage advert I saw in Prague last summer, and the image was apparently an original 1917 illustration. I’ve [...]

Facebook privacy with friend lists

Beth Granter — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:09:00 +0000

You can now basically do anything you’d ever want with the new privacy controls within Facebook. So, if you want to make a list of ex-boyfriends and stop them seeing certain information about you, you can! Or, if you make a list of hotties, you can make a special photo album just for them! Lists [...]

Individual life feed aggregators and friend feed aggregators: Ported and duplicated content

Beth Granter — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:36:34 +0000

Lately I have noticed that with more and more people getting used to RSS, and more services allowing you to send content in and out of them, content is flowing in so many different directions and things haven’t settled into any kind of default situation. For example - I use Twitterfeed to send updates [...]