Karl has formulated a truly British alternate HP ending for those of you disappointed by what the last book had to offer: It flooded, the wands were used to make a raft, all the wands shorted out in the water and opened a gateway into a hitherto unknown dimension, and they were all sucked in…. read full entry »

Based on the dip in my hits yesterday, I’m assuming at least 500 of you are Harry Potter fans?

Defensive Design for the Web: How to Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Online Crisis Points, by 37signals, Matthew Linderman and Jason Fried, really should be called “Examples of Bad Error Messages, Forms, etc” because although there were lots of pretty screenshots in the book, there wasn’t much in the way of real solutions… read full entry »

If there’s one thing I love about a movie, a book or a website it’s something which keeps my attention, and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown certainly does that. Never have I read a book before that literally grabs my attention to the point where I don’t want to move; forgetting about eating,… read full entry »

Don’t Eat This Book, by Morgan Spurlock, is a tongue-in-cheek look at the fast food industry all over the world, focusing primarily on McDonalds in America. This book accompanies his documentary Super Size Me, in which he demonstrated the effect that eating nothing but McDonald’s food for 30 days could have on the human body…. read full entry »

I worked harder this morning than I’ve ever worked in my entire “college career”. I had to finish my database assignment which was due in today. Actually, truthfully, it was due in about three weeks ago, but let us not go there. Basically, I forgot most of what I was supposed to do. Heyho, done… read full entry »