Poor coding
Another badly coded pile of crud site to avoid is Expedia.
My credit card could not be verified for... an unspecified reason. Their form fields aren't long enough for my details. When I click on the Customer Support link, I get redirected to the home page.
I'll try and explain this in simple terms - I'm trying to pay you 352 Euros, but I can't because your site is badly coded. Reasons for failing to make a sale should not include because the customer can't actually pay using your crappy system.
Update: Apparently it's not just the Customer Service link... clicking the Hotels tab... redirects me to the home page... click on the Cars tab... redirects me to the home page. It is presumptuous of me to state, but are some of the biggest piles of coding turd written using Microsoft's technologies? Perhaps it's just a market share thing (more sites use their technologies, so there will be a higher number of bad sites, but the same proportion as other technologies) - or is it that those who can't / aren't very good, tend to choose them?
I'll be in my bunk...
While hunting for a new Firefly mouse mat to replace my current one (a very thoughtful present a few Christmases ago), which is now a little worse for wear, I came across Serenity inspired mousepad designs at CafePress.com. Shiny.
A day for firsts
I just tried to put my computer headphones in my ears on top of my iPod headphones...
Tagged humour.
Subversion hosting
I came across Beanstalk a few months ago, so I finally decided to stop sponging my Subversion hosting off Geffy and give it a try.
Tagged Beanstalk and Subversion.
Pervasive 2008 Late Breaking Result
My paper "DocTrack: Automatic Printed Digital Document Tagging and Remote Retrieval" has been accepted as a Late Breaking Result for Pervasive 2008.
I will be attending the conference in Sydney in May, showing a poster based on the work and giving a 1 minute madness presentation.
Tagged conference, DocTrack, Pervasive2008 and Ph.D..
BSG returns
In celebration of the new series of Battlestar Galactica, I have cut the corners off my pages!
Tagged BSG.
Someone call the rib doctor
Bow before Geffy, for he really is root (on my hosting anyway)... and because he introduced me to bash.org and I can't stop reading them...
Tagged humour.
DHTML
It really bugs me when people still talk about DHTML.
"Oh, I know DHTML."
No, you don't. There is no such thing as DHTML - it is another pile of marketing rubbish. There is HTML / XHTML, CSS and JavaScript / ECMAScript. Anyone caught still referring to DHTML today really needs to catch up - it's a term on a C.V. which would make be bin it (I might write a separate post on that - terms that I would automatically detect in a C.V. using a filter to instantly bin them).
The term AJAX I can accept - although if people tell me they "know" AJAX that is also annoying. AJAX isn't a language, it's more a technique using a combination of existing technologies (and facilitated by something Microsoft came up with quite a while ago).
Age ratings
There seems to have been lots of fuss recently regarding age ratings on computer games. When was the last time you saw an age rating on a book?
Tagged age_ratings and censorship.
