Twitter / Google PageRank Absurdity
I have only been tapping out rambling nonsense on Twitter for a matter of weeks and only with any real regularity over the past few days, but already I seem to be appearing fairly prominently in Google. Clever me. Continue Reading →
Omniture ClickMap & Twitter Debacle
I mentioned briefly before that I had failed to get Omnitures ClickMap working but today I had a flash of inspiration and had another go. Continue Reading →
Google Analytics IQ Qualification
Today I was invited to take the newly introduced GA IQ test and passed with a fairly reasonable 85% (You need 75% to be assured of the award). Continue Reading →
Status Reports are like Nuclear Weapons
Status reports are a necessary evil these days. I accept this and produce them as thorougly, concisely and candidly as I can. This does not mean of course that I like this task. It may well be one of the worst of the week. Continue Reading →
Omniture Site Catalyst
Had my first real go creating Omniture reports and graph shaped things today. It gave me an interesting perspective given the free Google alternative that I have far more experience with. Continue Reading →
Faces of…
At work, in their attempts to build communities between otherwise very separate business units, they send out “Faces of…” emails. Continue Reading →
So Wrong, Its Right with Charlie Brooker
Last night I went to see a recording of a new radio 4 panel show pilot. These are generally always good and seeing them live and in their entirity is even better. Continue Reading →
Unnecessary Obsession with Word?
I have been working as project manager to help build a website for a local school. There have been various difficulties, not least the obsession by some to send any if not all content in word documents. Continue Reading →
Adobe Acrobatics
What is this obsession with PDF? Read by the idiot masses, created by the mysterious few, available to download all over the place. Continue Reading →
Flash User Interface Design Jiggery Pokery
Still working on a detailed functional design for a content management scheduling system. Having torn my hair out trying to find some pre-built components to barstardise I resorted to designing it all from scratch. Continue Reading →
Brightcove Fun & Games
Started working to integrate Brightcove video players with a third party ad agency today. Should be done pretty quickly so there will probably be few points of interest for me to bang on about here. Still, this kind of thing is relatively new so any problems I encounter are probably worth documenting. Continue Reading →
Content Management System Cake
In trying to document here all the various technology/craft related nuggets of productivity i have been responsible for over the years I have decided to release the Content Management System cake based on a custom build I was involved with at AOL. Continue Reading →
JavaScript Scheduler with Drag & Drop Functionality
A good usable interface is the holy Grail of all good web applications. Sites like Google and Flickr amongst others have excellently designed sites with good use of the latest JS and AJAX technologies. For mere mortals the only option to achieve similar levels of usability is to use the various JS frameworks and toolkits such as Scriptaculous, MooTools or Dojo. Continue Reading →
Dodgy Belkin USB-Wielding Router
I bought a new ADSL router at the weekend. I am not that impressed, but it will have to do for the moment since there does not seem to be anything better around. Rubbish. Continue Reading →
Brent’s Best Kept Secret
Usually brown signs direct you to areas of natural or historical interest, in the case of the Welsh Harp, this could not be further from the truth. Continue Reading →
Saatchi Middle East Adventure
Visited the Saatchi gallery today to see the new Middle East art exhibition. The quality was high as usual although there was not the ridiculous shock factor of multiple waxwork dead bodies like at the last collection. Continue Reading →
Choosing a decent Amplifer
Bought an amplifier today after much research and investigation and decided to write about the general difficulty of the whole thing. Continue Reading →
Cake Competition Part 1
Last year, Clarkson and I embarked on a cake making competition. Needless to say, she won, but here are our two entries: a cake version of my cardboard car made by Clarkson and the Millennium Dome/Canary Wharf at night made by me.
VMWare & Oracle UCM Image Installation
Today I had the pleasure of getting an 15GB image of RedHat with Oracle UCM installed up and running on one of the development boxes we have in a data centre, deep in the guts of the building. Continue Reading →
Cardboard Woodburner
Its Valentines day, and time for a strange construction for Clarkson. This time I tried to think of the things that are important to her. Continue Reading →