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  1. Business Academics: Stop Promoting the Pinto Myth on March 13th
  2. Two Ways of Framing a Surcharge on March 10th
  3. Managing Upward as Opposed to Downward on March 7th
  4. The Importance of Reading Broadly on March 2nd
  5. Cold Steel (Book Review) on March 1st
  6. How to Appreciate the Amazingness of Life on February 28th
  7. Understanding the Postgraduate MBA Program on February 23rd
  8. Intranets Should be about People and Processes on February 22nd
  9. All Things New and Beautiful (Including Me) on February 21st
  10. MBA Skills and Small Organic Industry on February 20th
  11. What EXACTLY is a Lens Fitting Fee? on February 19th
  12. What Books are on my Office Bookshelf? on February 17th
  13. The Incredible Life & Death of John Paul Jones on February 15th
  14. Cognitive Fluency through Affective Design on February 14th
  15. What the Dog Saw (Book Review) on February 12th
  16. Health, Wealth and Entrepreneurial Recidivism on February 11th
  17. Non-Cash Donations are Hindering the Red Cross on February 9th
  18. Profitability versus Cash Flow on February 8th
  19. Shifting Paradigms of Website User Interaction on February 5th
  20. Creeping Determinism of the Mobile Web on February 4th
  21. Stereotype Threat & Employee Performance on February 2nd
  22. The iPad: from a Technologist to a Technologist on February 1st
  23. Australian Law, A-Cup Pornography & the Big O on January 31st
  24. Is Firefox now my Internet Explorer? on January 29th
  25. Is the Uncanny Valley an Urban Legend? on January 26th
  26. Help Haiti by Cancelling their Debt on January 24th
  27. Culture Conquest through Globalisation on January 21st
  28. Why I Don’t Touch E-Commerce Projects on January 20th
  29. Why I Say the Independent was being Cheap on January 19th
  30. Jimmy Leach & Plagiarism at the Independent on January 17th
  31. Cloud Labour is open to Exploitation on January 16th
  32. Web Security and Ways to Fix It on January 15th
  33. The Limits of Power (Book Review) on January 14th
  34. The Collectors (Book Review) on January 13th
  35. Globalisation of the American Psyche on January 11th
  36. Confessions of an Eco-Sinner (Book Review) on January 9th
  37. Race to the Bottom & the Osterich Principle on January 7th
  38. Shonan Maru Whalers Rammed the Andy Gil on January 7th
  39. Blogging and Journalism are not Synonymous on January 3rd
  40. Monkeyluv (Book Review) on January 2nd
  41. What Killed the Occidental Production Managers? on December 31st
  42. Sketching User Experiences (Book Review) on December 28th
  43. Christmas 2009 as a Freshly Shot Duck on December 26th
  44. Sagmeister’s Eighth Year Sabbaticals on December 24th
  45. True Cost of Total Eyecare’s $40 Penalty Fee (REDUX) on December 23rd
  46. Buyers Change with the Context on December 20th
  47. CAST 2009 Members Exhibition on December 18th
  48. Big Tick for Amazon Customer Service on December 17th
  49. True Cost of Total Eyecare’s $40 Penalty Fee on December 14th
  50. Benford’s Law and Zipf’s Law on December 11th
  51. Do Business with Failure Embracers on December 9th
  52. Do Business with the Critique Enlightened on December 7th
  53. Do Business with Value-Aligned Professionals on December 5th
  54. Hire and Do Business with Problem Solvers on December 4th
  55. Never do Business with Litigious Assholes on December 3rd
  56. Why not to Argue with an Idiot (or Troll) on December 1st
  57. Vivek Wadhwa on Business School Entrepreneurs on November 29th
  58. MBA Marks for Semester 2 on November 27th
  59. Killing Congolese Babies for our Tech Toys on November 26th
  60. Honeypots, Trenches and Spambot Protection on November 22nd
  61. Contracts 101 – Conclusion: Protect your Business on November 20th
  62. Contracts 101 – Part 14: Ending the Contract on November 20th
  63. Contracts 101 – Part 13: Promissory Estoppel on November 19th
  64. Contracts 101 – Part 12: Genuine Consent on November 18th
  65. Contracts 101 – Part 11: Possibility of Performance on November 17th
  66. Contracts 101 – Part 10: Legality of Object on November 16th
  67. Contracts 101 – Part 9: Capacity on November 15th
  68. Contracts 101 – Part 8: Consideration on November 14th
  69. Contracts 101 – Part 7: Battle of the Forms on November 13th
  70. Contracts 101 – Part 6: The Acceptance on November 12th
  71. Contracts 101 – Part 5: The Offer on November 11th
  72. Contracts 101 – Part 4: The Agreement on November 10th
  73. Contracts 101 – Part 3: The Six Elements on November 9th
  74. Contracts 101 – Part 2: Which Contract? on November 8th
  75. Contracts 101 – Part 1: Outline on November 7th
  76. Resource Security: Tasmanian Milk on November 6th
  77. Blue Planet Run (Book Review) on November 4th
  78. Auschwitz, Congo and Plausable Deniability on November 3rd
  79. 6 Million Reasons to Reconsider your Next Upgrade on October 31st
  80. MBA: 4 Exams in 6 Days on October 29th
  81. True North: Pre-Renaissance to Present on October 26th
  82. Authentic Leadership: Finding your True North on October 23rd
  83. The Science Will Always Find a Way Argument on October 20th
  84. The Late Great Denial Argument on October 18th
  85. Global Warming – For or Against? on October 16th
  86. Derek Powazek on SEO Practices on October 15th
  87. Abstraction versus Obfuscation in Design on October 13th
  88. Client Expectations and Sign-Off on October 11th
  89. Reasons to Hire a Local Contractor on October 8th
  90. Workload, Time Constraints, Pressure Test on October 7th
  91. Everything’s a Resource, Stupid! on October 4th
  92. Cooking Currency: The IMF’s SDR Money Factory on October 2nd
  93. The Vegemite iSnack 2.0 Show on September 29th
  94. Fixed Costs are Sunk Costs on September 27th
  95. Where the Wild Roses Grow… on September 24th
  96. Freelancers: Do you Understand your Costs? on September 23rd
  97. Factor in your Transaction Costs on September 21st
  98. How to Lose a Customer (the old way) on September 17th
  99. Sadly, Patrick Swayze Passed Away on September 15th
  100. Old Phone Numbers Don’t Disappear on September 13th
  101. Does Last Minute Study Help? on September 11th
  102. Do You Value Your Devil’s Advocate? on September 9th
  103. Homogenous Graphic Design: Good or Bad? on September 7th
  104. The Yes Men Fix the World on September 5th
  105. Face-to-Face v the Web from Gerry McGovern on August 31st
  106. Always On to Always Off in 5 Steps on August 29th
  107. Do we understand Quality of Life? on August 25th
  108. Cheap Food at what Price? on August 24th
  109. People, Interaction & Interface Design on August 21st
  110. A Hat Tip to Ronnie Biggs on August 17th
  111. Our Farmers are Important Because… on August 15th
  112. Consumer Worldview versus Designer Expectation on August 12th
  113. Understanding Psychological Projection on August 10th
  114. Where’s my Real Estate Gold Search? on August 9th
  115. Leveraging an Application’s Potential on August 7th
  116. Peak Fuel, Peak Food, Peak Production on August 5th
  117. Are You Still Buying into the Levis Legend? on August 4th
  118. Racists Here and Bombers There… on August 1st
  119. Cheap Labour on a One Trick Pony on July 31st
  120. Is Your Business a Bug’s Arse? on July 28th
  121. Design Principles and W3C Specs on July 25th
  122. Business: Homogenise and Perish on July 24th
  123. Humbert Humbertism (Excuse the Phrase) on July 21st
  124. Theory: Why Planes Fall Out of the Sky on July 19th
  125. HTML 5, Ego and Design by Committee on July 17th
  126. Peter Garrett goes Pro-Nuke, Pro-Pollute on July 16th
  127. Valued Innovation vs Stifled Idealism on July 14th
  128. Interface Design, Feature Creep and Complexity on July 13th
  129. Ricky Maynard on July 11th
  130. Semester 1 MBA Marks on July 8th
  131. XHTML 2 Hits the Garbage Can on July 7th
  132. Designing a Web Advertising Business Model on July 4th
  133. W3C Open Web Education Alliance on July 2nd
  134. Designer’s Paradox and the Value of Review on July 1st
  135. Poimena Art Award 2009 for mixed media works on June 29th
  136. Managing the Customer Conversation on June 27th
  137. Website Content without Context = Crap on June 23rd
  138. Merlin Mann on Starting & Creativity on June 20th
  139. What is a Good Website Worth? on June 17th
  140. Avoid Using Creative Commons Images on June 14th
  141. Quantity, Quality & Speed on June 7th
  142. Joe Clark on Copyright for Creators on June 4th
  143. Ines of my Soul (Book Review) on May 31st
  144. 900,000 Australian Dead since 1950 on May 29th
  145. Cadbury Taste is now Budget Oily Rubbish on May 27th
  146. Moo Brew 2009 Imperial Stout on May 25th
  147. Validation Schmalidation & Context on May 23rd
  148. Treating Internet Explorer 6 with Style on May 22nd
  149. Culture: Values, Beliefs & Assumptions on May 21st
  150. Culture: Stories and Legends on May 20th
  151. Culture: Rituals & Ceremonies on May 19th
  152. Culture: Language, Dialect & Jargon on May 18th
  153. Culture: Physical Structures & Symbols on May 17th
  154. Culture is more than Demographics on May 15th
  155. Hiring Graduates by their Marks on May 13th
  156. Return on Investment or Die on May 10th
  157. Culture, Remixing and Ideas on May 7th
  158. When Torture becomes Normal on May 6th
  159. Perfection is a Digital Obsession on May 3rd
  160. Benefits versus Costs Redux on May 1st
  161. Photography & Ordinary Things on April 27th
  162. Evolutionary Standardistas on April 24th
  163. Professional Frontend Engineers on April 22nd
  164. Knowing Enough to Learn Something on April 21st
  165. Alco-Pops Tax and Cigarette Packaging on April 20th
  166. Raymond Arnold on April 18th
  167. Walking the Line in a Totalitarian Regime on April 17th
  168. Rossi Boots – Buy Australian on April 12th
  169. Zeldman on Big Think on April 11th
  170. Steam Burns, Beer and Breakfast on April 10th
  171. Good Web Design is often Invisible on April 9th
  172. Ian Tomlinson’s G20 Murder on Video on April 9th
  173. Redefining our Urban Spaces on April 8th
  174. Critical Mass and the Analogue Social Network on April 6th
  175. It’s Really Just a Series of Tubes on April 5th
  176. ‘Helping’ Can Become Academic Plagiarism on April 4th
  177. Moo Brew is the Premium Tasmanian Beer on March 31st
  178. Milan Milojevic Exhibition on March 29th
  179. Will our Economic Models Consume us? on March 26th
  180. Newspapers and the Unthinkable on March 22nd
  181. IE8 and all who Snail on her on March 20th
  182. Recession Tip: Don’t Drop your Prices Yet on March 19th
  183. No Standing Only Dancing (Book Review) on March 14th
  184. Otto Dix (1891 – 1969) on March 12th
  185. Christmas in Darfur on March 10th
  186. Doing Things and Getting Things Done on March 9th
  187. IP, AP, Shepard Fairey & Mannie Garcia on March 8th
  188. Abi Awarded in the HAEG Watermark on March 7th
  189. Bruce Temkin says Brands are Dying on March 4th
  190. Fighting for the Donation Pie on March 2nd
  191. Bob Brown’s Exhibition Opening on March 1st
  192. First Week of the MBA Program on February 27th
  193. Video Ezy and Rental Interface Affordances on February 24th
  194. Wielangta Photography Exhibition on February 22nd
  195. AFP Pounces on Steve Irwin, Hobart on February 21st
  196. MBA Starts on Monday on February 19th
  197. IE8 Blacklists Domains to IE7 Rendering on February 17th
  198. HITS: How Idiots Track Success on February 16th
  199. Realising the Social Networking Dividend on February 14th
  200. Reduce User Error through Good Design on February 12th
  201. Failure on the Liberal Party Watch on February 11th
  202. Australia through Flood and Fire on February 8th
  203. UK PM is a One Eyed Scottish Idiot? on February 8th
  204. Shepard Fairy Sued by AP over HOPE on February 6th
  205. Slumdog Millionaire (Movie Review) on February 5th
  206. Steven Clark Studio Site Launch on February 3rd
  207. Share your Dual H1 Heading Strategy on February 1st
  208. Responding to a Bully (DEPHA Example) on January 30th
  209. Here Comes Everybody (Book Review) on January 29th
  210. Red Feather Desktop Wallpaper on January 27th
  211. Multiple H1 Headings are Valid, But… on January 27th
  212. Photos for Sale on Etsy and CafePress on January 26th
  213. DO Lectures at Fforest Farm on January 25th
  214. Who to Hire as a Web Project Manager on January 22nd
  215. Web Project Managers Need to Step Up on January 21st
  216. Website Redesign: Linden Langdon on January 20th
  217. Photoblog: Walk a Mile in My Shoes (Redux) on January 20th
  218. Paper: A Ubiquitous Technology on January 18th
  219. Copyright, Corporations and Culture on January 16th
  220. Fascinating People: Design Matters on January 14th
  221. Human Minds, Interfaces and Large Datasets on January 13th
  222. Nifty Fifty Shoots at Super Crispy on January 11th
  223. Reassessment and Restructuring on January 9th
  224. Just Ask (Book Review) on January 8th
  225. Micro-Management Adds Costs on January 7th
  226. Do you have an IE6 Exit Strategy? on January 5th
  227. Cold War Modern on January 4th
  228. The Republican vs The Royalist on January 3rd
  229. Why Conforming Should be Avoided on January 1st
  230. Photoblog, Bandwidth & Beer on December 31st
  231. Managing Out of Date Content on December 30th
  232. Stylepedia (Book Review) on December 28th
  233. Are you a Marketer or a Mouse? on December 27th
  234. Best Wishes for your Christmas on December 26th
  235. Rise of the Foot Soldier (Movie Review) on December 23rd
  236. The Public Domain (Book Review) on December 21st
  237. Jeffrey Zeldman talks Web Design on December 20th
  238. Steven Clark BComp on December 18th
  239. Finally, I’m an Educated Man! on December 16th
  240. User Stylesheets to Identify New Windows on December 16th
  241. Redesign Schmedesign: IE vs the World on December 14th
  242. WCAG 2.0 Gets the Green Light on December 12th
  243. Redesign Schmedesign on December 11th
  244. Stop Providing Free and Cheap Labour, You Oinker on December 10th
  245. 24ways.org: A Sacred Cow? on December 10th
  246. Daring to be Different at 24ways.org? on December 9th
  247. Art, Design, Culture and Copyright Protections on December 8th
  248. Mental Models (Book Review) on December 7th
  249. Web Standards Solutions (Book Review) on December 6th
  250. Why Design is not Art: In Simple English on December 5th
  251. Technology and the Future of Publishing on December 3rd
  252. Transcending CSS (Book Review) on December 3rd
  253. 2009 Calendar Pack: A Present on December 2nd
  254. World Harvest and Natural Grid Calendars on December 1st
  255. Working for International Web Standards on November 30th
  256. Thank Fuck it’s Over Mr Twinkle… on November 28th
  257. Blue Beanie Day 2008 on November 28th
  258. Conversation: Richard Flanagan & Phillip Adams on November 27th
  259. Gerry McGovern on Web Content Migration on November 24th
  260. Mike Parr’s The Tilted Stage on November 23rd
  261. Disturbing Desktops: Our Little Psychopath on November 22nd
  262. Disturbing Desktops: The Human Pitbull on November 22nd
  263. Web Design Courses are Failing Us on November 21st
  264. Creative Commons Images: Black or White? on November 21st
  265. Potential Advertisers Need to be Specific on November 20th
  266. Photoshop Calculations for B&W Images on November 17th
  267. Talent, Hard Work and Late Bloomers on November 16th
  268. Photoblog: Walk a Mile in my Shoes on November 13th
  269. PayPal Fees in Grey and White on November 13th
  270. Spammers, Trolls and Plain Bad Manners on November 11th
  271. Emotional Design (Book Review) on November 11th
  272. Elon Musk of Tesla at the Web 2.0 Summit on November 10th
  273. Visual Explanations (Book Review) on November 8th
  274. WCAG 2.0 Proposed Recommendation on November 7th
  275. Progressive Enhancement with JavaScript on November 5th
  276. Utilising XHTML Prototypes on November 2nd
  277. Black Dodge and L’Astrolabe Calendars on November 1st
  278. Our Corporate Culture Should Support Failure on October 30th
  279. Ubiquity and the Web of Things on October 26th
  280. Is there Improved Usability in WordPress 2.7? on October 25th
  281. Progressive Enhancement with CSS on October 23rd
  282. Using the HTML Selector to Skin a Design Cat on October 23rd
  283. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us (Book Review) on October 22nd
  284. Opera’s MAMA giving a Statistical Analysis on October 21st
  285. Projects can turn into Programs on October 20th
  286. Linden Interviewed on Art Re-Source on October 19th
  287. Working with Grey Box Wireframes on October 18th
  288. On the Nature of Creative Genius on October 16th
  289. Hand Made Greeting Cards on October 13th
  290. Bad Ass Black Art School Dodge on October 12th
  291. Qantas and Cadbury Trash Their Brand on October 10th
  292. Cabel Sasser on Wedding Design on October 9th
  293. The Design of Everyday Things (Book Review) on October 5th
  294. Are You Managing Out of Date Content? on October 3rd
  295. Where is the Breadth in our Design? on October 2nd
  296. Heterogenous Social Networks on September 30th
  297. Alphabetical versus Random Order on September 29th
  298. Web Form Design (Book Review) on September 26th
  299. IE6 is not the User’s Problem on September 25th
  300. UK Gov’t Browser Guidance is Flawed (Here Too) on September 22nd
  301. JavaScript Ain’t Magic, Joe on September 20th
  302. Zeldman Discusses A List Apart on September 19th
  303. I AM a Real Designer! on September 17th
  304. World Wide Web Foundation Launched on September 16th
  305. Bill Buxton on the Design Ecosystem on September 15th
  306. D.I.Y. Design It Yourself (Book Review) on September 12th
  307. Firefox X.XX (in Not Too Sexy Then) on September 11th
  308. The Zen of CSS Design (Book Review) on September 5th
  309. WP Dynamic Body ID and Current Page on September 4th
  310. Fitts’s Law and Interface Design on August 31st
  311. 55 Trillion Hyperlinks Have Inherent Value on August 28th
  312. Don’t Be Afraid of the Big Bad Link on August 27th
  313. Avoid Designing Nav into the Background on August 26th
  314. Prevent SQL Injection Attacks in PHP on August 24th
  315. SQL ConnectToDatabase Function on August 23rd
  316. SQL Tip: Open Connection, Query, Close on August 22nd
  317. PHP Tip: Don’t use Echo to Code XHTML on August 21st
  318. Are We Leaving the Uncanny Valley? on August 20th
  319. Predicting the Next 5,000 Days of the Web on August 18th
  320. SQL for Comments and Pings in WordPress on August 17th
  321. Page Bloat and Download Scope Creep on August 14th
  322. More Accessible Popup Windows (If Coerced) on August 10th
  323. Strategic Templates and Snippets on August 8th
  324. Strategic CSS is Management Driven on August 2nd
  325. Correct Use of DIV and SPAN on July 31st
  326. External, Embedded and Inline CSS on July 27th
  327. Context is the Next Web Frontier on July 20th
  328. Scope Creep: Just an Extra Widget, Please? on July 17th
  329. Correct Use of Blockquote and Q on July 15th
  330. Don’t Blame the W3C for World Hunger on July 12th
  331. Named Anchors and Skip Navigation on July 11th
  332. What are your Core Competencies? on July 9th
  333. Serving CSS to Appropriate Browsers on July 4th
  334. Containing Floats (Redux) on July 3rd
  335. Title Attributes on Links, Tooltips and Accessibility on June 30th
  336. How to Make Accessible Image Links (Redux) on June 28th
  337. How Long is your IE Stylesheet? on June 24th
  338. Why I Dislike Flash Banners on June 23rd
  339. CMS Grafitti Can Be Reduced on June 21st
  340. Red Herring Phenomenon on June 20th
  341. Links and Affordance within a Design on June 18th
  342. Accessibility for Return on Investment on June 16th
  343. 406 Not Acceptable Error on June 15th
  344. How Cold Calling can Trash a Brand on June 14th
  345. Appreciate the Client’s Organisational Structure on June 12th
  346. We Must Design the Whole Experience on June 11th
  347. Building Accessible Websites (Book Review) on June 9th
  348. Should We Even Mention Our Process? on June 9th
  349. Its Time to Start Using WCAG 2.0 on June 7th
  350. Several Reasons to Avoid Accesskeys on June 6th
  351. Building Style Sheets for Maintainability on June 5th
  352. Why Having Two H1 Headings is Wrong on June 5th
  353. 99 Cows (Book Review) on June 4th
  354. Why Hijax (or Ajax) on Forms is No Good on June 1st
  355. Don’t Fear White Space in your Design on June 1st
  356. The Bootstrapper’s Bible (Book Review) on May 31st
  357. Using the Break Element on Forms on May 25th
  358. Web Design’s Golden Gun on May 19th
  359. Appreciate Your Front End Specialists on May 18th
  360. Poverty as an Accessibility Barrier on May 13th
  361. Jared Spool on Mental Models on May 10th
  362. Filching in Class is a Programming Sin on May 5th
  363. Why Don’t I Enjoy Written Interviews? on May 2nd
  364. What do you have that’s not in Mumbai? on April 30th
  365. No Country for Old Men (Movie Review) on April 30th
  366. How Restaurants can Rule the Web on April 27th
  367. Don’t Box the Blog with the Software on April 26th
  368. Reviews on this Site are Independent on April 23rd
  369. Unleashing the Ideavirus (Book Review) on April 22nd
  370. Facing your Business Blog Outward on April 21st
  371. Capturing Ideas behind the Firewall on April 20th
  372. Blogs and Wikis Behind the Firewall on April 19th
  373. The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Movie Review) on April 19th
  374. All Marketers are Liars (Book Review) on April 17th
  375. Conte Crayon Journal on April 12th
  376. I Am Legend has an Authentic Story on April 10th
  377. Undergraduate Writing Tips on April 9th
  378. Cabel Sasser’s Coda Confidential on April 7th
  379. Actively Participate in your Career on April 4th
  380. CSS and the Usual Suspects List on March 31st
  381. Solving Error #80048820 and #80048439 on March 30th
  382. Clay Shirky on Social Media and Groups on March 28th
  383. How Does the Brain Interpret Art? on March 26th
  384. Beautiful Evidence (Book Review) on March 23rd
  385. Expanding on Gardner’s Intelligences on March 22nd
  386. Vector Magic and a Sustainable Long Tail on March 18th
  387. How to be a Graphic Designer (Book Review) on March 16th
  388. NZ Government Web Standards Wiki on March 13th
  389. What Interests Bring You to this Career? on March 13th
  390. Cradle to Cradle (Book Review) on March 10th
  391. The Pandemic of Web Mediocrity on March 7th
  392. IE8 to Use Standards Mode by Default on March 4th
  393. Elastic Layouts Still Have Issues on March 4th
  394. The Elements of Typographic Style (Book Review) on February 28th
  395. IE8 – Why Not Strict Instead of Meta? on February 26th
  396. Dynamic Body ID in Wordpress on February 24th
  397. Perception and the Design on February 23rd
  398. Revised Opinion of IE8 Version Targeting on February 22nd
  399. Stock Photography and Design Thieves on February 19th
  400. display: table and Firefox Intermittent Pain on February 17th
  401. Install Extra WordPresses as Pages on February 13th
  402. The Pain of Third Party Templates on February 10th
  403. Designing Web Usability (Book Review) on February 8th
  404. Cradle to Cradle: Sustain by Design on February 6th
  405. DHTML Utopia (Book Review) on February 5th
  406. Don’t Make Me Think! (Book Review) on February 3rd
  407. Web Standards vs Contemporary Best Practice on February 2nd
  408. Contain Floats Without Adding Structure on January 31st
  409. The Internet in Plain Old English on January 30th
  410. The Design of Flexible Identity Schemes on January 27th
  411. Data, Branding and Interaction Design on January 25th
  412. The Version Targeting In IE8 Proposal on January 24th
  413. Three Pillars of Good Web Design on January 22nd
  414. Selling Your True Skillset in Interviews on January 20th
  415. First Analyse the Client’s Web Problem on January 18th
  416. GIF and JPG Basics for Beginners on January 16th
  417. You Need More Than Unit Tests on January 15th
  418. Do Premium Themes Add Up? on January 14th
  419. False Claim of a Registered Trademark on January 13th
  420. GET vs POST for the Beginner on January 12th
  421. I’m Not There (Movie Review) on January 11th
  422. Russian Dolls Performing Recursion on January 9th
  423. Use Comment Blocks Before Functions on January 8th
  424. Was Acid 2 Only for the In Crowd? on January 7th
  425. Hand Drawn Elements in Web Design on January 4th
  426. Joe Clark on Horses and HTML 5 on January 3rd
  427. Why Are You Still Using One Monitor? on January 2nd
  428. How CMS Could Trash Your Brand on December 28th
  429. 2 Days in Paris (Movie Review) on December 23rd
  430. Bulletproof Ajax (Book Review) on December 23rd
  431. The New Look Web 2.0 BBC Beta on December 19th
  432. Is Chinese Manufacturing Sustainable? on December 17th
  433. DOM Scripting (Book Review) on December 15th
  434. Why Do You Need a Website? on December 11th
  435. Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications (Book Review) on December 8th
  436. Think about Timeboxing your Project on December 7th
  437. HTML Email is a Marketing Conversation on December 6th
  438. A Series of Flawed Assumptions on December 3rd
  439. Support your Independent Thinkers on December 3rd
  440. Linden’s Prints on Etsy on November 27th
  441. A Framework Question for Code Purists on November 26th
  442. Look at Frameworks as Just a Useful Tool on November 24th
  443. WordPress: Page Within a Page on November 23rd
  444. Font Family as a Last Alternative on November 21st
  445. Publishing in Multiple Languages on November 19th
  446. VectorMagic BETA Online Vectorization on November 16th
  447. Is HTML 5 Apathetic Your Cup of Tea? on November 13th
  448. A Little Jaded on Accessibility? on November 11th
  449. Unavailable Keyboard at Startup? on November 8th
  450. Diabolical Design by Jason Santa Maria on November 4th
  451. Where is your Original Design? on November 3rd
  452. I Don’t Care About Blind People on October 26th
  453. Ninety Ninety Rule of Programming on October 25th
  454. Install WAMP 5 and WordPress on XP on October 23rd
  455. Designing for the New Resolution II on October 23rd
  456. Designing for the New Resolution on October 22nd
  457. Prototyping with JumpChart on October 21st
  458. Don’t Throw Out Your Old Monitor on October 20th
  459. Our Local Web Audience is International on October 16th
  460. Tas Gov’t Web Publishing Guidelines on October 12th
  461. Pareto’s Law and Web Development on October 11th
  462. Quick Introduction to WordPress on October 10th
  463. Installing WordPress on Localhost on October 10th
  464. Developing Sophisticated Designs on October 5th
  465. Your Client and the Psychological Contract on October 2nd
  466. The Cutting Edge of Occam’s Razor on September 29th
  467. Selling Personas and Scenarios to Students on September 27th
  468. Accessibility, Usability and Resizing Widgets on September 26th
  469. The Human Condition of Attribution on September 25th
  470. Content, Presentation, Behaviour on September 22nd
  471. Joel Spolsky and Web Worker Daily on September 19th
  472. EclipseME and Nokia SDK Config on September 19th
  473. Why is Using MAILTO Incompetent? on September 18th
  474. The Business Case for Blogging on September 17th
  475. Should You Be Relationship Marketing? on September 14th
  476. Design Technique 18: Design Journal on September 12th
  477. Design Technique 17: Morgue File on September 12th
  478. The Solution is a HTML 5 Apathetic Doctype on September 8th
  479. Design Technique 16: Rapid Prototyping on September 6th
  480. Designing for Opera Mini on September 2nd
  481. Why File Size Still Matters on the Web on August 31st
  482. Design Technique 15: Scenarios on August 29th
  483. Design Technique 14: Card Sorting on August 26th
  484. But How Does a Manager Know? on August 25th
  485. Design Technique 13: User Stories on August 22nd
  486. Design Technique 12: Parallel Design on August 19th
  487. Design Technique 11: Use Cases on August 19th
  488. Design Technique 10: Page Description Diagrams on August 16th
  489. Design Technique 9: Content Inventory on August 14th
  490. Design Technique 8: The Office Wall on August 13th
  491. Design Technique 7: Prototypes on August 11th
  492. Design Technique 6: Wireframes on August 11th
  493. Design Technique 5: Mood Boards on August 10th
  494. Design Technique 4: Personas on August 9th
  495. Design Technique 3: HTML Storyboards on August 7th
  496. Design Technique 2: Storyboards on August 6th
  497. Design Technique: Rich Pictures on August 5th
  498. Should There Be Two H1’s on a Page? on August 1st
  499. The Customer May Be Wrong on July 30th
  500. Paul Boag on Web Standards on July 27th

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Steven Clark Steven Clark - the stand up guy on this site

My name is Steven Clark and my passions are business, web development, photography and writing. My current CV [PDF 775KB] discusses relevant work history and interests. Currently I'm in the second half of a post-graduate university degree of MBA (Journalism and Media Studies) at the University of Tasmania.

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Currently Reading The Accidental Guerrilla by David Kilcullen

Late last year I watched an address to the Australian National Press Club from counter-terrorism expert and author of The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One , David Kilcullen. In that address he mentioned the period after World War 2 when, in retrospect, we had wars against colonialisation as countries pushed back against dominating forces. Similarly, when we look back at the current wars we’ll see them as wars against globalisation – people pushing back against the tide of world wide Americanisation and globalised culture. David Kilcullen is there to inform us that what the American government are group-labeling global terrorists are more often than not local insurgents with local concerns. Understanding this crucial point and unraveling the complexity of the enemy is crucial to America's success in the field.