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Backups / fail-safes are marvellous things

( Usability and Tech )

It was definitely not my brightest moment when I decided to drop a table of Alumni registrants details.. But a moment that I did have at around 4pm today.
Thankfully, incremental backups were consistently made and the administrator was able to restore this as if I had never left my mind at Sara’s Bistro at […]

My Swinburne Template Endeavours

( Usability and CSS and Javascript and Design )

Early on in the year I was asked to attend a usability lecture - where a site I had recently built was picked apart and it’s flaws revealled to all. I knew it was coming, so I fixed a couple of things just before the lecture
I learnt about semantic markup - a […]

bloody macs

I just want to install the ‘modern’ version of safari, ‘This system cannot use this software’?
It’s not the OS either - I’m running OS X Tiger on:
Machine Name: iBook
Machine Model: PowerBook4,3
CPU Type: PowerPC 750 (2.3)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: […]

them and their preciousness

I recently took a widely used page that was wrought with errors, unnecessary tables, and the layout was a mess. The fonts were all different although the creator had tried their best to increase it, it was filled with <big> tags and <font> with strange sizings. So I thought I would clean it […]

Worth Sharing

Hey chaps,
I thought some might appreciate these few things..

Edit: For zooba

Freaking Amazing