Published on 17 May 2011 in Internet, Transport, London Underground, Oystercard, railways, train tickets, Transport for London, usability, web development
I've learned that the Oystercard website is quite bad for tracking all this stuff - a fact that amazes me.
Published on 19 April 2011 in Internet, Cumbria, internet, maps, Old Dungeon Ghyll
Sorry Bing, but I'm after a famous pub in Cumbria where grizzled mountain walkers all congregate telling tales of Bow Fell and Crinkle Crags, and not a dungeon in the Australian town of Ghyll...
Published on 22 February 2011 in Internet, Planet Bods, internet, Marc Riley, Mark and Lard, Mark Radcliffe, Planet Bods, web development
Looking back at Fancy a Brew over the years is a bit like taking a time machine and exploring the past. So pop on those old fashioned clothes and prepare to head back to 1997...
Published on 22 December 2010 in Internet, Planet Bods, internet, spam, spammers
I have a very good spam filter installed on this blog, plus I pre-moderate all comments before they go on the site. But every now and then the filter goes wrong and sends to me a comment for approval that shouldn't. And some of them are amazingly wonderful to read. They are almost zen-like. I think they're wasted on my spam folder.
Published on 14 November 2009 in Internet, internet, search, The F-Word
Moment of the week last week was when I was shown an email to The F-Word Towers pointing out that if you search for "man" or "men" on the site then nothing happens. There are no results.
Published on 11 November 2009 in Internet, adverts, internet, Ireland, search
Martin Belam's written before about the trend of adverts to tell you to search for "something" rather than give a web address to remember. It's happening more and more, however normally the ads give you just a bit more to go on that this advert that was plastered around Dublin on a recent visit there.
Published on 31 August 2009 in Internet
Now that it's all set up correctly and raring to go, I thought I'd better do a quick plug. For, after a gap of about ten years, Catherine has her own website again.
Published on 18 June 2009 in House, Internet, bathroom, house, internet
As I mentioned the other day, we've just had our bathroom done. It was, I must confess, something we'd put off for some time. That and the kitchen too. Both really needed doing when we moved in back in 2004, however we didn't have the money at the time and over the months and years we just got too used to the way everything was. Eventually I put my foot down and decided that we just had to get at least one - and preferably both - done. I decided on the bathroom as technically it should be a simpler project (well one where there was less for us to decide�)
Published on 19 March 2009 in BBC, Internet, Adam and Joe, BBC, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio, BBC Radio 6music
I recently spotted the addition of an option in the BBC iPlayer which asks you if you like the recommendations it shows on the programme page. It's currently an iPlayer Labs thing so isn't normally available.
Published on 5 February 2009 in Internet, banks, internet, online banking, usability
I decided to trawl through the URLs of 17 online banks - a mixture of big and smaller names - to see what URLs they were using for their secure services, and how they varied from the standard domain names...