Archive for March, 2005

Annual Threadless Order

Design, Me, 18th March

Threadless have one of their fantastic $10 annual sales on at the moment. So Kerry and I have stocked up with a mega-order:

 

Even with $25 of postage it still works out so much better than buying shirts in the UK. Gotta love the current $ to £ exchange rate!

 

Natural Selection

Gaming, 16th March

I finally got to have a game of the super-new version of Natural Selection last night. I haven’t gamed online for ages. With my non-student working lifestyle it’s often hard to find the time. There have been some nice improvements and it is looking more polished than ever. It is probably the most professionally done mod I’ve played in a while. You completely forget that you’re playing a community-built free add-on for a game seven years old. Cracking stuff.

 
 

RubHub

Meta, 14th March

Yay, I’ve been spidered by the XFN bot thing: (http://rubhub.com/) that I set up last week.

 

MSN Sandbox

Links, Technology, 12th March

MSN Sandbox, an awful lot like Google Labs.

 

Bizzare Job Advert Of The Week

General, 10th March

“Principal Associate Director for Nuclear Weapons Programs”: washingtonpost.com: Jobs

Update: Looks like the ad was pulled. Click below for the text.

read on…

 

XHTML Friends Network

Meta, Technology, 9th March

No, its not a support group for lonely web designers. Well, maybe it is now that I think about it. Inspired by Matt I’ve put relationships on my “friends” links to comply with the xfn guidelines. This enables links to be mapped between sites and divided into classes depending on the relationship given. Funky stuff.

 

Interface Design

Design, Links, 9th March

There are some neat interface design tips over on my current fave 37signals.

 

Irony Strikes!

Books, Links, 8th March

Joe has found a new job working for Forbidden Planet which is probably one of his dream companies to work for. He’s not just working for them though, he’s now running the Company Blog. Oh the irony!


 

Gravatars

Meta, 8th March

I’ve decided to enable Gravatars on my blog comments to give the “commentees” a bit more of an identity. Gravatars are basically avatars that are tied to your email address. When you comment on a blog using your Gravatar enabled email address an image of your choice will show up next to your comment representing you. I think it’s quite neat and helps to make discussion a bit livelier.

 

QuickSilver

Book Blog, 8th March

Started reading this monster.

Update: I’ve picked this up again, after a gap of about 8 months!