How can this be? My own adidas related spending is up 350% since Dec 12th of 2008. Clearly its not enough. Also, it really annoys me when companies complain that profits are down. Maybe Adidas should take a page out of Valve’s pricing playbook. BBC NEWS | Business | Adidas sees profits plunge by 95% […]
I had suspected as much, but tivoblog crunches the numbers to compare the cost of TiVo versus a Cable company DVR. The monthly costs come out slightly in TiVo’s favor, but does it justify the initial hardware investment? This is where TiVo could really make the case that it offers more services, like Amazon and
Going from a consultant on the outside to a developer on the inside, I can’t agree more that there’s a lot more work to do once you launch a site. Since we relaunched our website at work in March, there have been a number of things we’ve had to change based because of how users
The single easiest improvements you can make to the usability of HTML Forms is to correctly use LABELs. And it helps all users, not just a subset. Its also a nice application of Fitt’s Law s Use the label element to make your HTML forms accessible | 456 Berea Street When checkboxes and radio buttons
I had to go with the wholly unoriginal headline, but this news (thanks to JL) makes my day. I’m glad they are reviving Futurama, hopefully it’ll replace the crap that is Drawn Together The ‘Futurama’ is Now: Comedy Central Revives Series (TVWeek) Five years after Fox canceled the animated comedy, 20th Century Fox TV has
We’re guilty of using guesses/gut feelings when putting a site together. Nielsen reminds us that even a few data points can help make better design decisions. Guesses vs. Data as Basis for Design Recommendations (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) The general guideline is to use relative font sizes that let users resize (if they know how), but
With the World Cup barely a year away, there’s a packed slate of results I’ll be watching this week. Will the US continue its relatively straightforward qualification to another appearance? Can Bolivia maintain the slimmest hopes of qualifying alive? Costa Rica vs USA – Wednesday, June 3rd. The Americans have never won, a tie would
I finally got around to upgrading my dual-boot desktop PC to running Windows XP. It was just about time, the version of windows I was running was no longer supported and more and more software requires Windows XP nowadays. I also wanted to start using my Windows partition for more than World of Warcraft and
Drupal provides a lot of hooks that you can leverage to make it work exactly how you want. I just finished tracing how some theme preprocessing functions were being executed, and realized that there are some subtle assumptions which I hadn’t understood earlier. These are my notes about two specific preprocessing hooks and when they
Lessons from wresting with Drupal’s theme preprocessing functions. Read More »
The only other annoyance was how long it took for them to crack down on this practice. FTC nukes “extended warranty” robocallers from orbit – Ars Technica If you live in the US, you probably got a call—even 911 dispatchers did. That’s because the telemarketers, based in Chicago and Florida, used robodialing systems to call