Aquarionics - Category - useability http://www.aquarionics.com/category/useability en-gb Aquarion (nicholas@aquarionics.com) Site Admin (nicholas@aquarionics.com) Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:56:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Meaning http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2007/05/14/Meaning Translation into Gamer of Matthew Paul Thomas’s Translation from cranky-speak into English of a selected portion of Mark Pilgrim’s ‘Silly season’ : Adobe Apollo and Microsoft Silverlight are the HyperCard of the 21st century. Translation: Platf0rm 1ndepen-c is roxxor teh boxxor, L0cked plat4m suxx0r & is 4 newbs w/out l33t. lfg 4 x-s-able & useable w3b warez. Years, Drugs, Webs http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2005/10/18/Years%2C_Drugs%2C_Webs In which Aquarion tackles Issues. Sites of Evil http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/12/05/Sites_of_Evil Today I was going to buy some Sluggy Freelance books for christmas. I went to Plan 9 Europe, the European distributor for the comics and… Well, go see. Your mission is to buy the first three Sluggy books without smashing your monitor. Your time starts now. LJ Icons in CSS http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2004/05/10/LJ_Icons_in_CSS People who don’t read the site purely though an RSS aggregator will not have noticed the new thing that’s happening on this site, that is that Amazon and Livejournal links are being prefixed with an icon. The LJ icon mimics the one the site uses to show users on the system, and the Amazon one is there because people may think I’m trying to make them buy things... Mis-spelling as a scientific experiement http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/09/14/Mis-spelling_as_a_scientific_experiement Apparently, a British university has discovered that you don’t need every letter in a word to be right, just the beginnings and endings. To test this Hypothosis, every entry in Aquarionics is currently being run though JWZ’s Scramble script. Isn’t it cool? Taken offline now. Content of this entry was as follows: Atppeanlry, a Biistrh uiivestnry has doisreevcd that you... Firebird Extensions http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/07/07/Firebird_Extensions In which Aquarion shows cool things for Firebird Design Blind http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/06/25/Design_Blind In which Aquarion attacks the RNIB’s new site In an attempt to cut down my hits... http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/05/29/In_an_attempt_to_cut_down_my_hits... Aquarion goes insane and blocks google from his archives. XML is the new black http://www.aquarionics.com/article/name/XML_is_the_new_black Originally posted to Alt.Fan.Pratchett . No. The future is not XML for presentation, the future is - or should be - XML for storage, and appropriate formats for presentation. Right now, that means HTML4 + CSS for web, HTML4 + Tables for old web, PDF for print, MP3 for speech, VRML for 3D. All of these can - and should - be generated from an XML format using XSLT transforms. This completes... Vindicated http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2003/05/03/Vindicated Via NTK: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://validator.w3.org/check laugh Potty http://www.aquarionics.com/journal/2002/12/14/Potty Just when you thought Pottermania had gone (You wish. Wait until the next book comes out) somebody pays £28,000 for clues to the next book. But this isn't the bad thing. According to Jakob Nielsen, In the Future, We'll All Be Harry Potter. Jakob is really beginning to scare me.