Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Scott Adams – Brain Management: „I have a theory that music appreciation resides in the same part of your brain where you think about yourself. That might be why it’s good to listen to music while doing boring tasks, such as going for a long run, because music interferes with your mind’s ability to think…

Gojko Adzic – Heroes or idiots?: „Ninety minutes and several confusing messages on the PA system later, the aeroplane was firmly on the ground. The passengers found themselves about 500 miles away from where they were supposed to land and their luggage was now touching the ocean floor. They were however all alive, which was…

Tim Bray – HTML5 and the Web: „HTML-based software has historically provided a better user experience compared to what went before. Everyone in our profession knows that building a good user interface is maddeningly difficult. The discovery, in the early Web browsers, that reasonably-typeset text which embedded simple forms and hyperlinks, and came equipped with…

Jason Fried at Inc. – Why Is Business Writing So Awful?: „Remember: It’s not about telling a story. It’s about telling a true story well.“

Ben Ward – Understand The Web: „Want to know if your ‘HTML application’ is part of the web? Link me into it. Not just link me to it; link me into it. Not just to the black-box frontpage. Link me to a piece of content. Show me that it can be crawled, show me that…