Category: Nerdy

  • Understanding the Windows 8 Jupiter fiasco

    Update 14th June 2013: I still get a lot of hits on this article, more than any other post in this blog. It’s been a long time since I wrote this, and since it was mostly speculation (some informed, some uninformed), you shouldn’t treat it as fact. It’s basically a historical curiosity at this point, and […]

  • All These Webs

    Some webby news that has caught my eyez… Chris Wilson, former IE tech big-cheese, current Google TV wrangler, and all round good egg, has dropped a pretty big hint that his work will be moving an altogether browsery direction once his presumed non-compete with his former employee expires. While bantering via Twitter with former IE […]

  • UI Design 1 – Inkscape’s Fill and Stroke Panel

    I’ve decided to post about problems with the user interfaces of some applications I use. Mostly as a way of exploring UI design and practicing talking about it and doing it, but also to get the annoyances off my chest, and in the hope that people who work on these applications might read my comments, […]