Category: Random
How Gnarly are the Cobbles at Roubaix?
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If you want some idea of how hard the cobbles are in the Paris Roubaix you need to watch this video. Even if you’re not in to cycling, you can appreciate the camera work. I watched it last year and for the life of me could not find it again this year. Props to [@mchaste][mc]…
Anyone Can Be Good, Only Some Can Be Great
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Awesome post by Edward Cassie on sweating the little details. I was just thinking about that at my local bike shop when I looked at the cable housing they replaced. Sure it all works fine, but instead of a black cable end (which matches the rest of the bike) they used the standard silver. Sure…
Captcha’s Still Suck
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I wrote long ago about how Captcha’s are terrible for site usability, seems that one company wants to solve it by making them mini games. I must applaud the effort to change how they work, and make them easier for users to pass while still hard for machines. Captcha’s still suck though. I still stand…
My Strategies for Combatting Wrist Pain
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Since my late teens I’ve had issues with wrist pain. I blame it on bad cycling position (riding with my wrists bent down) and other types of manual labour (8 hours of shovelling for a summer anyone?). Yes there is surgery but I’ve found that I can manage it with the tips below. Keyboard I…
Finally a New Design
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If you follow me on Twitter you’ll be familiar with my extreme distaste for the old site design. I loved it when I made it, but that was 3 years ago and I’ve changed. Visit the site for a new design. I built it using [LESS][less] and my development theme [Comienzo][com]. My first real dig…
Looking at a Writing Workflow
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Frederico Viticci shared his writing workflow. I too centre my files around Dropbox. My preference for writing app on iOS is iAWriter and I don’t use Evernote, I’ll write about why an everything bucket just hasn’t worked for me some other time. I use Instapaper to store article I want to read and maybe write…
Silence is Not a Bad Thing
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I just came across Take Five which is an app designed so that you don’t sit in silence while working. It’s happened to all of us, we are working then get distracted for a second and stop our music so that we can attend to the other item. Once we get back to work we…
On The Topic of Tech Serving You – What Does it Say About You?
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After recently talking about your Tech Getting in the Way here is another post about your ‘dock’ showing what is a priority with the usage of your phone (obviously only phones with docks). The Dock. That little area on your iPhone or iPad that contains a handful of apps which are available on every screen.…
The Usefulness of Blog Archives?
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I’m working on a rebuild of this site because it’s needed it for at least 2 years, and it’s a pretty dang terrible design. One of the main things I’m thinking about is the utility of the tags and categories on the site. Looking through Google Analytics, few people look around either the categories or…
Creative Cloud, I’m not Buying
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I may be a bit late to the party, but Adobe has announced [Creative Cloud][adobecloud] pricing. If you didn’t know already, I’m [not][adobe1] a [big fan][adobe2] of Adobe. I want a proper competitor to come along and dethrone the beast with bloated software, and Creative Cloud does nothing to change my opinion. As I say…