January 2006 Notes Archive

Is email the primary determinant of which mobile service people choose?: “If you use Yahoo Mail then you may find that Yahoo!Go is the service for you. I think I can say with 100 percent confidence that I would have preferred Yahoo!Go if I was still using Yahoo Mail.”

I just fixed an IE bug that has been lingering around here behind my back for a while. I just applied a CSS hack as a fix so everything should look much better now. Let me know if you encounter any problems. Thanks.

Anyone want a job at UK’s largest web design company? Framfab is very busy and hiring in just about every area. Just me know if you want a referral.

Paul English created a cheat sheet that tell you the steps to follow to find a human on many automated phone systems.

Internet Freedom Under Fire: Act Now: “The CEOs of the largest cable and telephone companies are hatching a scheme that would give them control over what content you can view and what services you can use on the Internet.”

Here’s an excellent and concise guide to writing for the web.

Google News goes out of beta, looks surprisingly similar to how it looked 3 years ago and offers only a small handful of improvements. Makes you wonder what the hell “beta” means these days. Does it still take the traditional meaning of “it has bugs that we’re still working out” or the new Google beta definition: “not 1.0”?

Have I mentioned how amazing tech.memeorandum is? Well, it’s amazing. I have no idea how Gabe Rivera rounds up the breaking news like he does, but somehow he manages it. A must subscribe.

Ever wonder how unraveled began? You might be surprised to learn that my original vision was for unraveled to host net artists.

I’ve been my setting start page to about:blank as long as I can remember. I get distracted enough when I don’t want to be; I can’t imagine having to deal with a distraction every time I open my browser.

Here’s a brilliant and creepy Audi RS4 commercial that I love.

You would think that after 12 years of education and 3 degrees, I would be able to use “their” and “they’re” correctly… Nope. Anyone know of a method that will force me to doublecheck myself when I’m using these homonyms?

Now this is funny. I payed for something using PayPal by “eCheque” (which pulls money from my main bank account) and it takes ten days to clear. Isn’t the idea of electronic communication not having to wait ten days just to transfer money? Amazing. Next time, I’ll just make sure I have money in my PayPal account.

The London office of Framfab (where I work) needs project managers. If anyone knows any London-based project managers looking for work, please let me know. Thanks.

So I can use the Internet without breaking the law, I’m known on the internet as Joshua Kaufman and sometimes the alias unraveledweb, and I have the intent to annoy.

Music downloading creates listener apathy. I somewhat agree with this article as I’ve noticed this attitude in myself as I download more and more music. But it also seems like a natural side product of living in a world that allows this sort of behavior.

UXmatters just published a great article on UXnet’s Local Ambassadors initiative. If you’ve heard of UXnet and are still not sure what we’re about, you’ll want to read this.

Just to remind myself (and others) again after losing data for not remembering this: in the Finder, when you replace one folder with another, the old folder is deleted. Damn nonsensical Windows behavior!

Here’s a semi-dated but brilliant drawing from the always clever Sam Brown.

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