Archive for 2005

FOUND: Stupidity on the web

« 2 December 2005 at 4:30 pm | 1 Comment
General | Tags: stupid website »

Here is a smallish collection of stupid photos I’ve found on the web as I surfed along …

Oh, quick, lets make use of this limited time promotion, before it expires. Free in-store pickup, imagine that. My lucky day!

Obviously Google’s search result view had a hand to play in this. Somehow.

Ok, first off … a common […]



Yahoo Publisher!

« 1 December 2005 at 5:53 pm | 1 Comment
Techy | Tags: »

Notice the new Yahoo powered ads on the bottom-left of the screen (it’s green right now)
First Impressions (meaning: not enough time spent on this)
Yeah, I got into Yahoo’s preview of the Publisher system this week and have been tweaking the ad-content to see what they’ve made. Looks a lot like Google … thats good and […]



A bridge thats a river

« 1 December 2005 at 4:47 pm | 1 Comment
Cool people | Tags: »

For sanity’s sake, lets just call it a Water Bridge ??!!!
Those Germans sure know their engineering!!!
Time to completion: Six years
Cost of construction: 500 million euros
Length: 918 Meters
Germany’s Elbe river now has a bridge crossing over it that joins the former East
and West Germany. It is located in (through?) the city of Magdeburg, near Berlin.
The […]



My 5 minute pep-talk!

« 23 November 2005 at 5:30 pm | 1 Comment
Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: Business Startup Entrepreneur »

Being an entrepreneur takes a heavy toll on your mental health. Everytime a customer calls, and asks to be transferred to a manager … your first thought is … “shit, what did we do wrong now?”
No matter how confident you are of your work, how good you think your product is … it’s always the […]



GoogleMap for your website visitors!

« 23 November 2005 at 5:00 pm | No Comments
Cool people | Tags: GeoMap Site Visitors Google Map »

Notice the “Map of Site Visitors” on the side?
Yup, it maps all visitors to Logic2go.com on a simple GoogleMaps Map.
Pretty nifty, eh?!!
And for once, it’s SIMPLE … just 1 line of code, no user accounts to create, etc!



Goowy Desktop: Where are the screenshots?

« 17 November 2005 at 8:51 pm | 1 Comment
Techy, Nuisance | Tags: Goowy website demo »

I got to Goowy through Scoble. I looked around for a few seconds, then walked away (whats the web equivalent for this? cos thats what it was!)
Ranting about what I’ve posted previously about app screenshots and website live demos.
Notice something missing?
Where are my screenshots? How do you get me to spend 5 minutes of my […]



Techy/Geeky/Nerdy Girlfriends rock!!!

« 16 November 2005 at 2:50 pm | No Comments
Personal, Cool people | Tags: »

I just love the fact that getting MS CRM 1.2 up and running and integrated with Exchange server gets me a cool movie date!!! (and I didn’t even have to do it myself)
Her passions … the use of technology as a means to an end (meaning, put it together, use it)
My passions … the […]



“accessibility” is really just “usability”

« 15 November 2005 at 9:50 pm | No Comments
General | Tags: usability accessibility Gizmodo product design »

Gizmodo has a great article on how designing for accesibility is nothing more than a prequel to designing for usability … read here.



Life begins at 85

« 8 November 2005 at 3:30 pm | No Comments
Personal | Tags: Ducati Motorcycle Multistrada »

 
 
For a Ducati owner, life just begins at 85.



Car-LANS

« 6 November 2005 at 5:15 pm | No Comments
Ideas/Work | Tags: GM Toyota car network »

Ok, so this is an idea I had sometime in 2001 … but now with Toyota and GM both trying out such experiements, it’s public enough (meaning: i can’t expect to make a killing licensing this idea … without a major legal battle)

Originally, sometime in 2001:
This idea allows all cars to have some sort of […]




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