Last year over 30,000 people took the A List Apart 2008 survey, and they published the rather interesting results. Of course, considering it’s an opt-in, global survey, last year’s results are rather skewed (respondents are heavy on the male developer side, for example). But over time, this project can only help us better understand the [...]
We discovered something strange at HTC the other day. There was some Swedish character encoding lurking in our system. I for one think the Swedes are commendable for their efforts to fight the inevitable extinction of natural blondes. If we were to map the human genome on an actual map of the world, Sweden would [...]
As an Arts graduate (got the MA just in case the BA didn’t quite drive it home), you’d think I’d be more prepared to answer the question, “Why web? Why not ‘The Arts?’” For someone else, I can see how when looking over my bio my career path may seem more “road less traveled” than [...]
Some of my favourite classes in university were: Intermedia: An Art History course on performance/video art, experimental music, and the art scene throughout the 20th Century. I read Kurzweil for the first time and wondered what Socrates would think of mobile devices, given that Plato claimed in Phaedrus that he thought literacy alone would wreck [...]
