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Countdown to Blog Action Day 2008
Posted 05 Oct 2008, late morning.
For the second time, the world's bloggers, podcasters and videocasters are uniting to post about the same issue on the same day.
Pink for October 2008
Posted 01 Oct 2008, evening.
Save the boobies, save the world!
September Again
Posted 03 Sep 2008, evening.
Help give 150,000 people in Ethiopia access to safe, clean drinking water.
Save John Slatin’s Accessibility Institute
Posted 01 Sep 2008, evening.
Please sign the petition.
Accessibility 2.0 2008
Posted 22 Aug 2008, late afternoon.
For those of us who didn't make it along, approximately seven hours of footage fully transcribed.
Demand Five won’t let me in
Posted 17 Aug 2008, late morning.
Demand Five demands login to report inability to login.
I need a holiday
Posted 03 Aug 2008, early afternoon.
"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." Robert Louis Stevenson.
BTW 2
Posted 28 Jul 2008, lunch time.
Miscellaneous stuff and things.
BTW 1
Posted 17 Jul 2008, lunch time.
Miscellaneous things and stuff from the Web.
Firefox 3 Release Date Announced
Posted 12 Jun 2008, terribly early in the morning.
Download on 17th June and help set a new Guinness World Record for Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours.
WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation
Posted 02 May 2008, evening.
W3C invites developers and designers to take part in trial implementations of the new guidelines for Web accessibility.
Big Weekend, fat chance
Posted 01 May 2008, terribly early in the morning.
Computer says no to Maidstone locals for Maidstone event.
John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project
Posted 22 Apr 2008, evening.
Matching accessibility experts with companies that would like a brief review of their site in return for a donation to The John Slatin Fund.
The 2008 Gmail Appeal
Posted 10 Apr 2008, late morning.
A friendly attempt to get in touch with someone from the Gmail team, so we can help them to make Gmail even better.
CSS Naked Day 2008
Posted 08 Apr 2008, evening.
Come on, get 'em off!
On holiday in the flat
Posted 31 Mar 2008, terribly early in the morning.
At least I don't have to brave Terminal 5.
ExpressionEngine 2.0: The Preview
Posted 15 Mar 2008, late at night.
More powerful, more sexy and fully CodeIgnited.
Street Team: Bookmark Challenge
Posted 10 Mar 2008, lunch time.
Warning, hazardous materials!
Raising Awareness
Posted 24 Feb 2008, late at night.
Bug Tracking with ExpressionEngine
Posted 21 Feb 2008, lunch time.
Replacing email and word-of-mouth.
QA Checklist: Form Usability
Posted 05 Dec 2007, late morning.
You're asking the user to give you something - don't make it harder than it needs to be.
QA: A Declaration of Independence
Posted 03 Dec 2007, late morning.
Why freedom and independence is crucial to ensure quality in Web design.
Email Standards Project
Posted 01 Dec 2007, late at night.
Working with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.
Describing Structure with Headings
Posted 14 Nov 2007, lunch time.
Six of the simplest yet commonly misunderstood and misrepresented HTML elements.
Real World Accessibility
Posted 23 Oct 2007, evening.
Disabled computer users putting assistive technology to work.
Why ‘Good Enough’, Isn’t
Posted 15 Oct 2007, lunch time.
The battle between time, money, resources and quality in Web design, from the perspective of the QA Manager.
Blog Action Day: Life in Numbers
Posted 15 Oct 2007, terribly early in the morning.
Today, 15th October 2007, I'm joining thousands of bloggers and millions of readers to talk about one subject - the environment. Numbers are important here; they break through all the rambling discourse and smack you in the face with all the subtlety of a wet haddock.
Countdown to Blog Action Day
Posted 08 Oct 2007, terribly early in the morning.
In 7 days from now, over 7,000 bloggers will unite to talk about the same thing. Will you be part of it?
Text Resizing
Posted 06 Oct 2007, lunch time.
Whose job is it anyway?
Pink for October
Posted 02 Oct 2007, evening.
Save the boobies, save the world!
Voyager 1
Posted 02 Oct 2007, mid-morning.
Spare a thought for the most distant human-made object in space.
Read the damn spec!
Posted 01 Oct 2007, late morning.
I don't write it for fun, you know.
Don’t forget to look up!
Posted 29 Sep 2007, lunch time.
When was the last time you saw the view out of the window?
Airfix is back!
Posted 12 Sep 2007, evening.
Red Ant's latest website launch sees the return of the oldest UK manufacturer of scale plastic model kits, now under the ownership of Hornby.
We’re not going to worry about Accessibility…
Posted 03 Sep 2007, mid-morning.
...blind people aren't going to be using this site anyway.
Red Ant is Hiring
Posted 29 Aug 2007, lunch time.
Must love the Web and be committed to delivering quality solutions to a range of clients, both large and small. Skill at making a decent cuppa advantageous.
9-Point Usability: Ecommerce
Posted 28 Aug 2007, late morning.
An introduction to usability for ecommerce websites.
Top TV Adverts
Posted 25 Aug 2007, lunch time.
Often more entertaining than the programmes they interrupt, I present a short list of my favourite television adverts.
PlusNet Minus Email
Posted 23 Aug 2007, lunch time.
Sheffield-based ISP nukes customers' email. Again.
Operator 0.8
Posted 21 Aug 2007, evening.
A substantial version release for Michael Kaply's microformat-loving Firefox Add-on.
Enemies of Reason
Posted 20 Aug 2007, evening.
Richard Dawkins confronts the epidemic of irrational, superstitious thinking and explains the dangers of pick and mix knowledge and nonsense.
The IT Crowd: Season Two
Posted 18 Aug 2007, lunch time.
Channel 4's geek sitcom returns for a second season.
Techshare Expo 2007: Pre-registration
Posted 14 Aug 2007, evening.
The biggest ever European exhibition on access to technology by people with disabilities, 4-5th October 2007, Novotel London West.
Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0
Posted 17 Jul 2007, evening.
A surprisingly chunky yet friendly introduction to the world of microformats.
Dramatic! Chipmunk!
Posted 22 Jun 2007, evening.
...or is it a prairie dog?
The Singing Guide Dog
Posted 18 Jun 2007, late evening.
Album coming soon to iTunes!
Latest Reading: See it Right
Posted 31 May 2007, evening.
I probably shouldn't add another book to my reading list until I've finished the other six that are stacking up on my desk, but RNIB's 'See it Right' caught my eye this week.
Goodbye Papa
Posted 25 May 2007, evening.
I need to take a brief moment to say goodbye to my granddad, better known to myself and the rest of the family as 'Papa', who passed away this week aged 84.
Where’s my new phone?
Posted 12 Apr 2007, mid-afternoon.
I'm moving from contract to PAYG, buying a new phone and trying to port my number. Pain in the arse!