The personal website of Matt Henderson.
18 July 2004
Automobiles can be downright inconvenient in your average-sized Spanish town. Traffic on the narrow streets can come to a crawl when a big truck decides to unload, or even just when some driver happens to see his neighbor and stops in the middle of the road to chat about the weekend. And parking — oh parking — especially in the summer months, can be simply impossible.
08 July 2004
This, in my opinion, is an example of quite poor user interface design. The image on the right (click the image for a larger version) is a screenshot from Live365.com's web page that users evaluating their Radio365 product are taken to when they click the "purchase" button. Notice that the only element that appears "clickable" is a button to "Try VIP for Five Days Free."
07 July 2004
Note to self: Excellent tutorial for using rsync in a backup strategy.
30 June 2004
John Gruber writes in his (to be expected) excellent review of the Dashboard/Konfabulator situation:
29 June 2004
There's been a lot of negative talk about the fact that Apple are introducing technologies like Dashboard, Spotlight and Safari RSS into the forthcoming OS X 10.4 (Tiger) — since they are effectively incorporating the innovative ideas of independent developers, like those of (respectively) Konfabulator, LaunchBar and a variety of RSS readers. The main argument seems to be that Apple are killing their independent developers, which is a bad thing.
24 June 2004
Kimbly writes about what not to do when applying for a job:
24 June 2004
Just updated to MT-Blacklist 1.64. Hope it will help control this atrocious comment-spam problem.
22 June 2004