Anything and everything vaguely internet related. Blogging, industry, social media: if you can find it online, I've talked about it in here.
I just found this phishing e-mail in my junk box. I find it absolutely hilarious: Subject: This is an official notification from United Kingdom Government For security reasons, you must update your account to protect your bank account from disable. Please Click Here to complete your account update. Click here then click to your bank… read full entry »
I have been off work most of this week with a random mysterious disease. Of course, when I say “random mysterious disease” I actually mean tummy bug, but I quickly discovered that by typing in the symptoms “vomiting” and “diarrhoea” plus “pregnant” into Google, it gives me an estimated remaining lifespan of about 3 days…. read full entry »
I was having a discussion in the quilting bee IRC channel last night about users (in general, not q*bee users). A specific type of user: the user that complains constantly that X or Y is not suitable for their tastes/what they want to do, but who do bugger all to resolve that. Perhaps it’s just… read full entry »
The success of rev.iew.me‘s launch has opened my eyes to a multitude of websites I never knew existed. Unfortunately, it has also made me realise that the age of the dodgy tutorial is not over, and now more than ever younger webmasters are “educating” each other with terrible code for the sake of scraping in… read full entry »
*cough* Excuse me while I brush off the dust and cobwebs. One would be forgiven for assuming I’m off enjoying the fabulous sunshine the UK is getting at the moment, but you’d be so wrong. When I’m not working my ass off (even on Fridays at the moment) I’m sleeping. Apparently the “bouncy”/”energetic” second trimester… read full entry »
The long time readers amongst you may remember me reviewing a chap called Ronald Treitner (of designbytreitner.com) in February last year. The guy bases his entire reputation on the fact he validates his pages. However, I made it clear in my review of his website that validated or not, he still sucks epic balls as… read full entry »
One of my Snarkers is up for vote in the WPWebHost Best WordPress Design Awards. I don’t normally get involved in these sorts of online voting/award things because it’s just egotistical back-patting (and by that I really mean that I’m not good enough to be entered) but Mimi mentioned that the guy coming in second… read full entry »
Due to Jacky‘s inclination towards professionalism and all that jazz (and the best of luck to her, of course) our beloved Snark has moved to a new home… a new domain, a new host and a new admin – me :) If you’ve been waiting for it to come back up, go post! If you… read full entry »
It’s CSS Naked Day again :) Websites all over the world are stripping off to show you that, even without styles, a well-coded and semantically inclined site will still be readable. Visit the naked day site for more information and instructions on how to take part.
I’ve been an avid blog reader for years. As long as I’ve had my own… possibly longer. I read a huge variety of topics, too. From personal blogs (or “journals”) to tech/gadget stuff, marketing, SEO and code to cooking and cats (but not cooking cats). However, it seems that of late all of my favourite… read full entry »