December 2008
8 posts
WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” →
WordPress is getting a UI overhaul. Looks pretty good to me.
What's the suspicious "Free Public WiFi" you see...
From jstn:
Have you seen this wireless network? I see it *everywhere*, and it’s so suspicious because it’s always ad-hoc (meaning broadcasting from a computer rather than a regular access point). I imagined for a long time it was part of a virus; it waits for someone to connect, redirects to a page that exploits some hole in Internet Explorer, scrapes your hard disk and sends your social...
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to...”
– Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle
Real Advice Hurts | 43 Folders →
Real advice that hits home and is unfortunately too often forgotten.
“I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when...”
– Terry Pratchett
Google Calendar now supports Apple iCal →
Awesome news: finally free two-way calendar sync with GCal.
Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Current Financial... →
Reads like the original—with the exception of being a tad less melodramatic :-P
November 2008
8 posts
is it going to rain? →
Bringing simplicity to weather forecasts. No more percentages.
校内 - 因为真实 所以精彩 →
Facebook in Chinese… but not by Facebook. Even the icons are ripped off :-(
The ‘O’ in Obama - NYTimes.com →
The design process behind Obama’s logo.
Colour Contrast Check - snook.ca →
The Colour Contrast Check Tool allows to specify a foreground and a background colour and determine if they provide enough of a contrast “when viewed by someone having color deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen”
smush.it! - Nice utility for optimizing images →
Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality. You’ll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download.