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tl;dr I decided to take interest in something that lots of other people do so I could talk to them. I remember reading an article about the British show Bullseye that pointed out t…

OK, I missed that, but still, that suggests two US links (not that I can see the actual data, it just links to the homepage), and ... Wikipedia? What does that mean in terms of a d…

A comedy channel in the UK decided to rename the channel a few years back. They bandied names around, then someone said. "How about Dave? Everyone knows Dave, Dave's your mate." Da…

Gah, I hate stats that a) don't say where the information comes from b) don't say which part of the world they're talking about (US sites are particularly prone to this). I'm assum…

The real problem with Wikipedia redesigns is that they don't address their real issue: editing . Wikipedia have serious considerations encouraging a wider audience of editors, and …

Case in point: I had an edit war on Guy Fawkes' since one person refused to let me include information about Australia and NZ celebrating it but only in organised displays due to f…

When I started working on my thesis, I immediately set up my entire document directory for it to be in Dropbox. At the time I paid extra for versioning but now I think it'd built i…

Or as usability people say: "you are not your user".

A pattern library is normally a collection of best UI practices: see the Yahoo UI pattern library http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/ or http://ui-patterns.com/ for the two most …

… though as someone who's done conference reporting, it can get pretty exhausting fast (though for me I usually did the writeups that night and had to have them up the following mo…

I hope everyone knows you're quoting "The Elements of Style" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style

An aside: I've been reading Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Book Store. Good, breezy, semi-techy read.

I was at a girls' school. As a straight-A student in a rough school, helping fellow students was a tactic for not being bullied. But all it takes is one kid to decide to take an ex…

To be honest, the distancing was only because of nuclear powered ships (NZ being proudly nuclear free and refusing US ships right to take harbour in the country cost us the ANZUS a…

I'd like to think that Macaw is like training wheels (or a fixie bike) for getting into web development. Is it production ready-code? Probably not. Does it do a good job of showing…

I also took it to mean that it's not classy to smoke hash (i.e. 'you stay classy, San Diego' :D)

I probably should have chosen a better mnemonic to start from! I'd point out that if you see greater and less than more like arrows it's utterly confusing. I'm not denying I'm prob…

I was taught the crocodile thing, but had real issues with it: I can think it through but it's not fast. I'm pretty much ambidexterous (i.e. write with left and catch a ball with m…

What weird coding things do you have to use statements for or other weird tricks to remember? I can never remember , and only remember that < is less than from years of typing (i=0…

Urrgh, if you're going to ask for money, at least ensure you use 'its' correctly on the fundraising button (i.e. it should be 'reach its fundraising goal'. I really wish everyone w…

Also margin of error: the longer the name is, the more likely you'll mistype it somewhere and screw everything up.

Amused to see how US commenters take to the famously opinionated yet erudite CIFers :D

Great idea. One minor quibble though: it's 180 web pages or web apps for me at least. I'd say that websites require full infrastructure etc.

Props for the Leave It To Beaver tshirt :)