One of my favourite things about working for this company is the interaction I get to have with all of you, the end users, the developers, the IT professionals, the knowledge workers and so forth. In fact, over the least two or three years, I’ve been working hard to make that more part of my daily life here as a tester on Visual Web Developer. But, being a tester, I have a primary task, and interacting with the community wasn’t it. And trust me, I tried as hard as I could to make it my primary task....
One of my friends from my UNB days has posted a link to a rather interesting article titled Eight Problems That Haven’t Changed. I read it this afternoon and found it to be pretty fascinating. I agree with almost all of them but sort of disagree with one. From the article, they list the 8 problems as: Links that don’t change colour when visited Breaking the back button (Huge pet peeve of mine) Opening new browser windows Pop up windows Design elements that look like advertisements Violating web-wide...
As I was doing some of my morning infosnacking, I came across this post on slashdot. A few guys seem to have figured out how to recreate the Bellagio Fountains using only 2L bottles of diet coke, and several menthos. Check out the video at...
I figured I’d share this with both my personal and work blogs as it’s kind of funny and a little humbling. In my personal blog, I always write in smallcaps, so just ignore that fact, and hopefully you’ll get a laugh out of my morning. my friend heath and i have been rowing every morning for the last 6 weeks. after seeing summer storm about two months ago, we both got the itch. i rowed for a summer in university (thats where the b&w pic of me comes from). i only did it one season, but i still had a good...
On my way home from work last night, I was listening to NPR when I heard a story about KFC’s new Buffalo Chicken Sandwich ad. The short version is that KFC is running an ad with a very very short scene, too short to catch without some kind of DVR. If you manage to pause at the right time, there is a cupon code to get yourself a free sandwich from KFC! What an interesting way to get people to watch your ads! According to the article about 70% of people who have DVR’s skip the commercials, so the advertisers...
You know, it’s frustrating when you don’t know what something is even when you work at the company making/doing/owning the website about it. http://www.origamiproject.com/1/ Damn, this thing has me...