For a little while it’s been bothering me that various websites ask for a secure password (Hotmail goes so far as to tell you, as you’re typing it, just how good your password is–more on this below), but then ask you to choose, as backup, a seemingly very much less secure question and answer, such [...]

We upgraded our in-house wiki recently (TWiki), and the save dialog now looks like this:

So there’s now, what, six potential ways to save a page? Three save buttons, plus a force new revision toggle that can be applied to each? Plus preview, plus cancel? Aren’t wikis supposed to be simple? (The [...]

When Islington Library need to tell you that the book you’ve reserved is ready for collection they send you a letter—and not only a letter, a handwritten letter! Hullo email! Hullo SMS!

Here’s a challenge: starting from O2’s homepage, find O2’s pay monthly phone rates in five clicks or less. (Answer below.) For some reason, the websites of each of the four major phone networks in the UK make this—and a whole lot of seemingly common other tasks—extremely difficult. Is this in fact an [...]

10 Cool Things About The New Yahoo! Photos: Yahoo’s new photo site sports some neat visual effects–not only drag and drop, but grouped drag and drop, fancy placeholder effects, etc. (Watch the first screencast!) It’s all JavaScript (though apparently it doesn’t use Yahoo’s user-interface library).
I’ve been playing around with some Ajax/JavaScript libraries recently, [...]

Weird Al’s “White and Nerdy”:

So, recently I discovered IE Tab, which is a tasty little plugin for (Windows) Mozilla/Firefox that lets you view any page as it would appear in IE from within Firefox. (Visit a page that doesn’t work right in Firefox? Right-click on the tab and select “Switch rendering engine”. You can also get [...]

One of my favourite bloggers is The Sartorialist, who posts photographs of prettily-dressed people he sees on the street—street fashion, basically. His blog has become pretty popular over the last year, and both GQ and style.com have paid him to do his thing in different cities for their sites. (Usually associated with [...]