Posts Tagged ‘rant’
Hulu plans to go international
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
March 24th 2009
Hulu plans to go international.
Ironically, the video they link to in this post, is not viewable outside the US. Unless you go through proxy or VPN in the states.
If Hulu launches worldwide, and actually have the same content as in the states, then I sure as heck would subscribe.
Do you get that, content owners? I want the same bloody content, not what you think I want. I want to pick for myself.
End of rant
Det är dags att bli arg!
Friday, March 20th, 2009
March 20th 2009
Jag fick denna skickad till mig och jag håller med!
It’s not finished
Monday, March 16th, 2009
March 16th 2009
No by all means it is not, but at least it is live so I can relax and do some other things that need doing. Man I hate when I set my deadlines like co complete mofo.
Attack of the office zombie
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
September 6th 2008
You see them every day, moving slowly down the street. Drool and mucus from their lips and noses, and a thin coating of sweat covering their pale greenish complexion. They move without thought or care for human beings around them, and in contrast to zombies in the movies, they just need to touch something, or breathe a raspy moan to spread their disease.
Welcome to your work place
Presenteeism in todays society, is valued more than any individuals health. Thanks to the wonderful system of guilty until proven innocent, no one dares to take a day off work, out of fear of accusations of skiving off, or jokes about heavy drinking the night before.
They come in and spread their germs and viruses, and faster than you can say George A. Romero, you will find that it has spread across floors bringing down half the office.
How do you avoid of being bitten?
There are a few tricks of the trade. Simple steps to avoid infecting your fellow man are
- CALL IN SICK – call your manager and let them know you will not be in today. It is not only for your own good, but for the good of the company.
- Let people have their water cooler moment guessing if you are skiving off or not. Loose speculation is not worth the paper it is written on.
- Delegate your responsibilites. Delegate to someone you can trust have the work done by the time you are back. They will not want to take your job away from you.
- If you must – work from home. It is the 21st century, with high speed computer access available everywhere. Don’t over do it though. You are supposed to be resting.
How can you help an office zombie?
When you see them shuffling slowly down the corridor, instead of running, try and do the following.
- Tell them to GO HOME. You do not want their illness, and neither does anyone else.
- Volunteer to do an urgent task, to make it easier for them. Wouldn’t we all want to worry less?
- Eat garlic and bring in some greasy food if you sit next to them. Garlic will help your immune system, and the greasy food will probably smell so un appealing that they decide to knock off early.
Consistency between browsers
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
April 16th 2008
Why is it that both professional web producers and clients alike insists on comparing the look and feel between different browsers? Especially between what is considered Alpha browsers (Firefox2+, IE7+, Safari 2/3b and Opera 9+) and Beta browsers like Internet Explorer 6 – the scourge of the internet.
I understand everything there is about presenting a coherent look and feel, that presents the clients brand in a consistent way.
But let’s face it: It doesn’t matter. The target group will not sit there with 4 different browsers open, comparing the differences! Most likely they will either never update their browsers because of lazy IT staff (I mean you Simon Hill 
, and therefore never see a proper version of the site.
Or if they are relatively IT-competent, they keep their browser updated at least at home.
Now, my argument is this: intentionally MAKE sites look really good in Alpha browsers, and passable in Beta and below. Why? Because coding for deprecated browsers take a lot of time, and cost a lot of money.
“Oh but if you code correctly, you don’t need to worry about that” and “Over 90% use Internet Explorer 6″ I hear you cry!
Absolute bull! I am not talking about browser snobbery, trying to convince people to switch to standards compatible browsers like Opera, Firefox and Safari, but to simply reward people who keep their browsers and computers up to date.
If people insist on using old style browsers, then they just won’t get the full experience. Simple as that.
And also, if there is a difference of 2 pixels here and there when compared between browsers – IT DOESN’T MATTER. The user experience will not vary because of this anyway! As long as the general composition is the same, and typography adhered to, then this is a moot point.
Bite the head off a chiclet
Monday, January 28th, 2008
January 28th 2008
Chicklet… chiclet… no matter how you spell it, it is still some guys “clever” marketing speak for small buttons. You know the kind: “Digg This”, “Add to Facebook”, “Add to bookmarks”.
Some guy appearantly thought it would be clever to name them “chiclets”. For those in the know chiclet is actually a brand of chewing gum, the name of keyboard buttons as on a calculator or remote control.
Sure the buttons are as annoying as getting chewing gum on your shoes, because we designers tend to put them in the footer. Is that why it got that name?
People where I work now want these everywhere. It is painful to hear people blurting out these “trendy” names. I have two things to say to the person who minted the expression for these buttons: “Please STOP”.
If something is a button, then it is a button. Exclamation mark. Refer to things as “graphical button” or “styled button”. It is not something new and fantastic or even very hard. Most of the time it is an image or textreplaced link leading to one of the social bookmarking sites.
It is NOTHING new, and NO it will not make you sound clever.
If you want to invent a new terminology, PLEASE for the love of the gods make sure it actually DESCRIBES the function or use of the item.
Here are some acceptable replacements:
- “Social-link”
- “Styled button”
- “cross site link”
and my favourite
- “button”
Telecoms should not be ISPs
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
June 5th 2007
You know, I had a really bad phone provider and ISP before. At least that is what people said. I used to be with Bulldog Broadband.
Seriously, you never hear the end of it. Of course I knew this from the beginning, when I first signed up with them several years ago. I wanted a company to provide me with Internet, but somehow it is impossible to get that without ordering phone lines and call packages and constantly being contacted by the provider with “special deals” designed to encourage me to part with my hard earned cash.
Not Bulldog though. After they hooked up my flat they left me pretty much alone, with an access that sometimes dropped out, but always worked.
Until I moved that is. Somehow, a move of less than 500 meters put me under the radar, and they blatantly refused to acknowledge the fact until I put them against the wall and said
“You really cannot provide me at this address can you?”
crackling over my mobile I heard a faint and feeble
“No. i am so sorry. I will refund you all the money for the months you have been without connection”.
All’s well that ends well. I will miss bulldog somehow, because they are the ONLY company that offered to take care of setting me up with a landline without having to go through BT.
BT… yes… I am afraid to say it, but I try to avoid them whenever possible, but that is a story for another day.
