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Dec 13, 2006
Meta

Don’t do what Donny Don’t does: Email Edition

I get a lot of email everyday. And by a lot, I mean that it totals into the thousands of items*. Seriously. Much of this is addressed to various internal mailing lists to which I subscribe, such as an Xbox Discussion alias, or Visual Studio UI dis...

Dec 12, 2006
Web Design

Label *is* your friend, dammit!

I simply cannot stress enough that you. must. use. the. <label>. tag. when. creating. forms. ARGH! What brings this up for me today was a Digg link to a website entitled ObscureTags.com. The site is really quite funny, I’ll admit, but it’s always ...

Dec 12, 2006

Roblimo seems grumpy

Imagine working for a company that is tolerated, at best, in many social circles. Imagine being a computer science graduate, going to a class reunion, telling people you work for Microsoft, and watching your former classmates slowly back away as i...

Dec 11, 2006
Apple

Crazy rumor: Apple planning on making Leopard ugly

Apple Gazette, a heretofore unknown Mac rumors site, claims that Apple will replace Aqua with a new look-and-feel codenamed Illuminous in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, scheduled for release sometime in 2007. The conjecture states that: What will Illumin...

Dec 11, 2006
Graphic Design

Make your photos awesome

Blurbomat has a fantastic advanced Photoshop tutorial on retouching your photos without doing anything that that might “look like ass. Avoid looking like ass.” Jon Armstrong, the tutorial author and husband of the chicken-hating Heather Armstrong...