Archive for the 'English' Category

Usability for beginners

Friday, May 26th, 2006

How the online PDF reader software of Mediamark is used in a rather unproductive way.

Unible to spell correctly?

Friday, May 5th, 2006

One of the most confusing rules in the art of English spelling!

Usability of the scrollbar declining

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

The internet is full of usability problems, most of which are already thorougly described in books and websites.

One thing that I’ve not yet read about, but that’s been bothering me nonetheless, is the decreasing usefullness of the scrollbar.

Sometimes you get lucky

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

As a donator to the FOSDEM conference, I have won a Nokia 770 Internet tablet!

Word smarter than Kurzweil?

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Ray Kurzweil claims that MS Word is more complex than the human brain.

Eh?

(e)Book: Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

I have read this crazy ebook by Why the lucky stiff, about the Ruby programming language.

Free culture

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

If you haven’t seen it already, then you have to watch the presentation ‘free culture’ by Lawrence Lessig.

SEO of this blog

Friday, January 6th, 2006

I did some search engine optimization for the term ‘Floris Lambrechts’, and it worked.

Changes to this blog

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

I updated the header image of this blog and added a ‘recent flickr fotos’ feature on the right hand side.

Book: Effective C#

Friday, December 16th, 2005

I have read (and enjoyed) the book ‘Effective C#’ by Bill Wagner.