Category Archives: General

Bankers Bonus-Malus

There’s been a lot of talk about bankers bonuses and whether they’re right or wrong. There appear to be 2 main problems. 1. They’re too large 2. They’re paid regardless of overall bank performance. Here’s an alternative: use a bonus-malus … Continue reading

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TFL Cheesed

Did TFL just get cheesed or is it a genius viral move?

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FAO Anon

I got three messages in a row from an (almost) anonymous reader today. The first message was startling. The second corrected the first, and the third asked that none of the messages be published. I was pondering the first two, … Continue reading

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Is the IE6 Petition News?

BBC News has a front page story about a petition to the government to phase out the use of IE6. Historically, ceasing to use IE has always been a good idea in my book, and IE6 is now very outdated … Continue reading

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iPad Frenzy

Wow, my iPad article from 5 years back is having a bit of a friendship day, and as a result the server is having its busiest day ever.

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Sequential Email Addresses are Silly

A simple hint for email administrators everywhere. If you have a large number of users with unique sequential ID numbers, it may be tempting to use that ID as a primary email address, or an alias, but don’t do it. … Continue reading

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Memories of Hendrefoilan School in the 70s and 80s

Not stepping on the lines in the infant playground. Girls drawing hopscotch numbers on the paving stones and singing “who stole my watch and chain”. Wondering why the girls never wanted to play war. Lining up when the whistle went … Continue reading

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Code Tutorial Blueprint

I just watched a nice presentation by Yahoo evangelist Christian Heilmann who opened the show at FF09 yesterday. Whilst there’s a lot of good ideas throughout regarding the maintainability of JavaScript code, one nugget stood out about code tutorials. Christian … Continue reading

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Full Frontal 2009

“A conference on ECMA-262” doesn’t sound particularly exciting, so I can understand the organisers of Full Frontal 2009 wanting to pick a name that was perhaps more attention grabbing. I’m heading along there tomorrow, and depending on the format (& … Continue reading

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Rolling out an HTML5 theme

I wondered how hard it would be to get this site fully compliant with the as-yet unpublished HTML5 spec. Please excuse the dust. Most things are in and working. Still to tweak are nested comments and a few CSS niceties.

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