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Here’s an interesting article I just finished reading from the Seattle PI which talks about Eric Rudder of Microsoft.
I won’t say too much, but thought it was interesting enough to warrant a blog post about. Go take a read.
via bink.nu

Personal reminder to read this article later.
Article title: User Interface Design for Web Applications – It’s a Different World from Web Site Design
And also these links.
Ajax & Interface Design
For those that don’t know… What is a Web Application? (I’ve often been asked what’s the difference between a Website and a Web Application… There is [...]

Ok, I’ve just got this random idea that I came up with yesterday (while sitting through the MDNUG meeting last night).
The idea is for an Australian State of Origin Code Challenge.
State versus state, user group versus user group.
The winning state/user group gets presented with a trophy with the names of the individuals from the winning [...]

Looks like eBay will now have to add GST to their listed prices from now on.
Well, on the Australian part of their site anyway (that’s ebay.com.au as opposed to ebay.com).
Why are the adding GST to the listed price?
Well, this is why (from the article):
“Some eBay buyers reported that they had been charged an additional [...]

Wow, i’m half surprised and half “heh” about how fast the news travels around the web these days.
I was reading my RSS feeds last night and was chatting in the JoiIto IRC channel over on freenode and noticed a blog post about a Red Screen of Death (RSOD) (by Michael Kaplan), so I pasted a [...]

The PHP Princess, Daynah links to the CSS Cheat Sheet which looks like it is really useful for everyone who works with CSS stylesheets.
Personally, I keep a printed multi-page CSS reference guide with me anytime I need to do some work with styling a website. (Actually, this is something I’ve had for quite some [...]

So Google now has a web accelerator and a they also allow you to keep a history of your web searches.
Now okay, I can see where the search history might be useful, but in all honesty, these days I just bookmark any links I want to look at later. It’s easy, create a new bookmark [...]

This is a question everyone will be asking as time progresses towards the date that Longhorn will be released to manufacturing, and then into stores and onto home computers worldwide.
In the comments of this post from Robert Scoble, Nicole Simon makes a good point.
Why should anyone care about Longhorn? Why? Aside from a subset [...]

And because I just wrote this nice and long piece that includes some of what I was about to blog about tonight, I’ve decided to just paste and leave a link to where I posted it.
original: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=64810#64810
This is a good thread.
It just goes to show the great passion around here. Definitely great to see [...]

It seems many think that this blog is dead. Or i’ve gone missing…
Well, just to say now that the blog’s not dead, and i’ve not really gone missing.
Just decided to take a break from writing blog posts.
It was just a longer than anticipated break. As a general rule, I only blog if I feel like [...]