Online magazine A List Apart has just published an article “Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help?“. As I can’t be arsed to re-write my thoughts in a logical and structured manner, I’ll just copy and paste what I put into the q*bee IRC channel:
[19:45] <Jem> I’ve just read an article on ALA about ‘zebra striping’ - where one row of a table is a different colour to the next and it alternates - and whether or not it’s beneficial.
[19:45] <Jem> The article can basically be summed up as ‘it doesn’t matter either way’.
[19:46] <Jem> I’ve never seen the point in publishing articles that don’t actually clarify whether or not a process is worth the effort
[19:46] <Jem> You might as well just publish: “Zebra Striping - it really doesn’t matter!” and be done with it
[19:46] <Jem> Obviously the pretty graphics and waffle about studies and questions make the “we’re not sure” even more convincing
Personally, I find it much easier to read a table if the background colour of each row alternates, but I’m not sure if it results in an imaginary increase in efficiency or an actual one…
May 6th, 2008 · Categories: Coding, Rambling · 25 Comments
I’ve just got online — it’s 7:30pm — after having spent most of the afternoon in garden centre type places looking for plants for my front garden. It’s north-facing so shadowy and damp most of the time, which presented a bit of a problem (I’ve brought back some Fuschia).
Anyway, upon opening my inbox I find a horde of comments telling me that I’m all kinds of stupid, how dare I insult some chick’s site and that my blog is a ‘pisshole’. Does someone want to fill in the gaps and let me know exactly what it is I’ve supposedly done this time? Starting drama while I’m not even here must be a newly developed talent of mine… Apparently — from what I can tell — someone is pretending to be me on a few sites, and pretending to be those site owners on mine. *yawn*
PS. Thanks for all the help with names in the previous post. Several of the ideas were bounced around, and I know a few were quite popular with the family, but my mum decided on Merlin in the end.
May 5th, 2008 · Categories: Drama, Gardening · 28 Comments
My mum has been to see her new kitten today, with the intention of having a second furball to keep her cat Billy company. She totally copied my idea, however, I have said that I’d help out by asking for name ideas…
As the majority of my readers are evil geniuses, I figured someone would be able to come up with the perfect name. Nothing rude, but otherwise all suggestions will be considered.
May 4th, 2008 · Categories: Family · 51 Comments
I have been a supporter of the “dofollow” movement since before it became a movement. I’ve talked about its disadvantages before, but none were so apparent as the one that came to light this week.
Digital Point forums is filled with spammers and sploggers trying to make a quick buck. While this is normally harmless enough, a recent thread came to my attention when it popped up in my referrals: “Free High PR Dofollow blog list everyday”. Basically, an updated list of dofollow blogs with high PR.
My blog was dofollow before I moved back to WordPress, but was not mentioned on any of these lists. I can only assume these spam comment advocates are searching for WP/dofollow combo blogs in Google, which of course I wouldn’t have been listed with previously.
Anyway, sure enough I checked my comments after reading through that thread, and there were a pile of seemingly innocent ones from people I don’t know, on old posts, talking vaguely about the subject matter. Another today had the nerve to tell me: “I just found your blog through a friend” (but didn’t count on my looking his IP up in Mint?)
So here I am — much like many other bloggers — trying to reward those who comment regularly, and for what? The tedious task of having to check on unknown commenters to weed those out deliberately looking for a link boost? To put myself through the hassle of now having to block referrals from Digital Point for the sake of my sanity? Why do a small minority have to ruin it for others?
May 3rd, 2008 · Categories: Blogging, WordPress · 31 Comments
Hip-hip hooray! My domain is 6 years old today. That’s 6 years of pointless ranting, narcissistic/egotistical BS and the best damned awards on the planet. I’m still quite enjoying the whole thing too.
I hope those of you who joined me in celebration last time will raise a glass to another fruitful year pwning the Internets with my l33t ninja skills.
April 29th, 2008 · Categories: Blogging · 70 Comments
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