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Archive for November 2002

Pre witch-burning blah

Unfortunately I’ve been rather too busy to update World of Badger much lately. Lots of work and not much time for fun stuff or silly surfing. However, I did get to see Michael Moore at the Roundhouse with Simon and Hadyn last weekend. Wasn’t too sure what to expect of him live, but we left [...]

30.11.2002 | No comments yet | Posted in Mish Mash of Gubbins |

Mad-cat inspired geek tools

Having been woken by the cat (who seems to be going mad — to pander to her penchant for grass, she’s got a little flowerpot in the kitchen with grass growing in it, so she can have a bit of a nibble without going outside. As if this isn’t bad enough, she now insists, very [...]

20.11.2002 | No comments yet | Posted in Web Design |

Venting spleen at the script kiddies

Memo to script kiddie spamming wankers:
I don’t use formmail!
I’m getting really pissed off with script kiddies poking around looking for a copy of formmail here at outofthetrees. For those that don’t know, formmail is a perl cgi script, written by a pillock chap called Matt Wright, that takes the information entered into a form on [...]

11.11.2002 | No comments yet | Posted in Web Design |

Usable or useless

The Register has drawn up a list of how major UK banks and shops cope with non-Internet Explorer browsers. Makes for drepressing, if not totally surprising reading. Among the worst offenders were Marks & Spencer (doesn’t like Mozilla or Opera), Nat West (only supports IE, Netscape 4) and Scottish Power (even prevents Linux users accessing [...]

07.11.2002 | No comments yet | Posted in Web Design |

Someone finally notices what Bill is up to…

Just watched the Channel 4 News, which included a piece on Microsoft’s Palladium. I think that this is the first time I’ve seen any mention of the whole ‘Trusted Computing’/Digital Rights Management/MS megalomania plans in the mainstream, non-Geek news. Hopefully we’ll see more coverage elsewhere, as this is such an important issue — it effectively [...]

07.11.2002 | No comments yet | Posted in Web Design |

Mojotown

Just came across a site that I felt compelled to post up here: Mojo Town. Now I know Flash sites tend to rate pretty low on accessibility and usability scales, but this one, for a multimedia agency in the States, is a work of art. One thing — be prepared for several minutes wait if [...]

07.11.2002 | No comments yet | Posted in Web Design |

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