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Lorem ipsum something something

I sent out a link to the beta of a site I was building for a client. Since it was powered by a CMS, the pages still used dummy content. I got a kick out of the email I got back: “We love the site, but one thing: maybe our computer is broken, but everything seems to be getting translated into Latin. It just says ‘Lorem ipsum something something’. Maybe something is broken with the site or else...

Nov 30th

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Nov 29th

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Nov 29th

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Clients from hell...

This person’s account of their client meeting about their web design cracked me up. It’s so familiar. It could have happened to me. Client’s 70-ish year old father storms into boardroom during our first meeting brandishing a sheaf of papers—all print outs of Google search results, covered in highlighter and red circles. Him: “I want to know the meaning of this!” <throws papers...

Nov 28th

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Nov 27th

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Nov 26th

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Nov 26th

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Nov 25th

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Nov 25th

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Scroll Clock →

This has so much geek-web-awesomeness it’s astounding. http://toki-woki.net/p/scroll-clock/

Nov 24th

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Nov 24th

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Seth's Blog: Rupert Murdoch has it backwards →

I’m with Seth on this one! If you don’t know what all the fuss is about, read this: Rupert Murdoch Plans To Hide His Sites From Google, The World Yawns or this: Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact

Nov 23rd

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Nov 23rd

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Nov 23rd

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Nov 22nd

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nov 22nd

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Nov 21st

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Nov 21st

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Nov 20th

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Nov 20th

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Nov 19th

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Nov 19th

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Watch

All things being equal, we’re not doing too badly on CO2

Nov 18th

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Google's New Image Swirl →

It’s nice (maybe), but useless. I really don’t get it when Google throws time and money into something like this. It’s design for design sake. It doesn’t serve the user - either by speeding up a process or delivering added benefits. It’s just eye-candy. No nutrition and probably not good for the diet. IMHO. Try it out, and let me know what you...

Nov 18th

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Oxford Word of the Year 2009: Unfriend

unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook. As in, “I decided to unfriend my roommate on Facebook after we had a fight.” So, there you have it. It’s officially a word now. Unfriend. I feel silly every time I say it. Then again, about 10 years ago I felt silly when I said blog, and in 2006 when I said Twitter. Now I’m getting used to...

Nov 17th

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Nov 17th

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Nov 16th

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“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to...”

– Leonardo Da Vinci

Nov 16th

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Nov 15th

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Nov 14th

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Nov 14th

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“Did you ever hear the story about the small hardware store that experienced the...”

– Guy Kawasaki

Nov 13th

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The realtime web is here, now.

At just after 5pm I tweeted this tweet: Twitter / Steve Mathew: Google Chrome OS To Launch At 5:19pm a Google Alert (http://www.google.com/alerts) pops up in my inbox alerting me to my tweet. No big deal? OK, get this: This means that in the 18 minutes in between, Google indexed my Twitter account (and all 79 million other Twitter feeds) found something new; indexed it into their search DB (try...

Nov 13th

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