Archive for “Geeky stuff”

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Time management and modern web design

Posted March 5th, 2008 by Rachel

A few days ago Gill over at JBVoices posted a blog entry about a graphic she’d happened upon on the web, showing a pie chart of a time breakdown for modern web design which had amused her greatly. It amused me too.

For those requiring a text version of the image, the breakdown reads thus:
2% - [...]

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The wonders of the web

Posted February 16th, 2008 by Rachel

Somewhere I’ve got a copy of Tim Berners-Lee’s autobiography, “Weaving the web” - the “inventor” of the world wide web. It’s a fascinating read if you’re a geeky type, all about how the web came about and required reading for any true or aspiring geek. TBL had a vision of a worldwide network of computers [...]

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Woo hoo! I didded it! (and a rather nifty PHP include menu)

Posted February 12th, 2008 by Rachel

It feels like ages since I’ve done a site from scratch - just lately all I seem to have been working on is re-designs and re-brandings, so it’s made a nice change to get back to doing some original design work, and this weekend I finished off a one-page sample for a client. The basic [...]

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I wish I knew how to quit you - 2

Posted February 11th, 2008 by Rachel

Nope, not another ramble on about Brokeback Mountain - this one’s about my employer’s dimwit IT dept.
Every day come time to go home, I start shutting down apps in preparation for switching off my PC (wouldn’t want to be caught by the energy efficiency police leaving a monitor or something on! *gasp*) and everything [...]

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