There is a growing trend in IT of managers and directors demanding the inclusion of certain technologies in projects just to seem 'cutting-edge', even if they are inappropriate. In particular, what I like to call XMLFAIL is a fast-growing form of idiocy.
So Facebook's latest re-design is pretty much fully propagated now, which means the whole world is enjoying its AJAX-infested mess of User Interface confusion. I'd like to draw attention to a couple of fundamental things that are still chronically wrong with the site which the developers plainly refuse to change.
In the wake of recent unrest in Georgia, the United States is calling for Russia to call a cease fire. Speaking in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "said Russia should help resolve tensions instead of contributing to them."
With mere hours left until CERN's brand new shiny Large Hadron Collider "activates", I want to take a moment to clear up some confusion about what this actually means.
The BBC reports, "a Mexican man whose case drew international attention has been executed in Texas for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl in 1993."
Microsoft has a nasty habit of allowing bizarre adverts into its messaging application, Windows Live Messenger. All ranting aside about the multi-billion-dollar corporation enlisting in-product ads, there doesn't seem to be a great quality control system in place.
It looks like there's a new malicious Facebook virus in the wild, and it just popped up today. Users are logging in this morning to find wallposts left by their friends along with a link.
Hi. In FF3 the "Bookmarks Toolbar", "Recent Tags" and "Recently Bookmarked" items near the top of my Bookmarks menu take too much space and I don't need that information as it's all available elsewhere. How can I get rid of them?
Some Engrish signs are funny and some are just plain daft. But this one goes above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to East Asian signage for which the English translation just downright failed.
