December 30th, 2007
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Today I received an interesting item from Audi. It was basically a ‘welcome to the club’ type package but done on a completely different level then I have seen before. Every aspect of this mailing was Audi through and through. There was all sorts of handy information included like what items are covered under the warranty, a catalog of features that can be added post purchase and my personal favorite, an experience guide book.
Audi certainly has shown again that they care about user experience from start to finish. The real test will be when I take my car in for its first schedule maintenance. I will be sure to post back how it goes.
December 20th, 2007
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Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba. –via digg.com
This is great news for all the Linux and Mac users out there!
read more here | digg story
December 17th, 2007
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It has been a while since I have shown my updated desktop… then again it has looked like this for a long while.
December 6th, 2007
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Well, I said a while back that I would be changing the theme. Over the last several months I have struggled with creating a theme that I felt was good enough and fit my personal style. Today I have finally given up. This theme could be considerable better on multiple fronts and doesn’t fulfill the previous statements but I decided it was finally time to just post something. I am not sure how long it will stick around for but at least I got it up.
December 2nd, 2007
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I have been working on various forum validation techniques lately and came across a simple idea that seems to make a lot of sense. You can read more about it here. The basic idea is that you include a hidden form element. If this element is filled in then it is probably a bot that doesn’t understand CSS or Javascript. When handling this submission you know that you can ignore it.