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  1. Project: Kittles Tronerud & King Island on August 30th
  2. Brand is an Intangible Asset on August 27th
  3. Hyper-Competition & Niche Opportunities on August 23rd
  4. Trajectories Exhibition at the Long Gallery on August 21st
  5. Jared Spool on Hands versus Brains on August 15th
  6. Web Designers Suck at the Big Picture on August 12th
  7. DEPHA: An Anecdote on the $30,000 Wireframe on August 10th
  8. Designers aren’t the Actual Internet on August 8th
  9. It Takes 9 Months to have a Baby on August 6th
  10. Come to Terms with your Fear of Failure on August 1st
  11. GAC: An Anecdote on Design Breaking the Rules on July 30th
  12. Always Get Paid for your Work on July 26th
  13. Sweet Old Adana Letterpress at the Market on July 24th
  14. Australian Contract Law & Precedents on July 21st
  15. Consider Hiring a Dedicated Business Manager on July 17th
  16. Understanding Morality versus Ethics on July 15th
  17. Your First Priority is to Stay in Business on July 12th
  18. On-Site Search Expectations vs Reality on July 10th
  19. The Underlying Social Value of Number 10 Murray on July 7th
  20. Paternal Great Great Uncle Walter Bonner on July 5th
  21. Why Design by Committee will Continue… on July 1st
  22. The Clark Family in the 1930s on June 29th
  23. Sophisticated Design & Platform Agnosticity on June 25th
  24. Market Research to Inform ‘Customer Personas’ on June 22nd
  25. CSS Preprocessing with JavaScript is a Bad Idea on June 21st
  26. The Niche Strategy (for Freelance Web Designers) on June 18th
  27. Freelance Web Designers: Who is your Customer? on June 15th
  28. The Internet Makes Us All of the Above on June 12th
  29. Why Generic Stock Photographs of Personnel Suck on June 10th
  30. Animal Kingdom (Movie Review) on June 7th
  31. Your Business is in the Spaces not the Things on June 4th
  32. Heritage: Maternal Grandfather Kittles Tronerud on June 2nd
  33. The Web Limits our Overall Exposure to Information on May 30th
  34. Addressing the Customer’s Distorted Lens on May 24th
  35. It’s your Money in the Customer’s Pocket on May 20th
  36. Do You Know Why You Are in Business? on May 14th
  37. Why Web Professionals Should Unfriend Facebook & Why all ‘True Professions’ demand a Code of Ethics on May 8th
  38. Why Web Professionals Should UnFriend Facebook on May 7th
  39. Hits, Page Views, Unique Visitors, Time & Bounces on May 2nd
  40. Understanding a Little Theory about Racism on April 30th
  41. World Systems Theory & Career/Business Opportunites on April 25th
  42. LMX Theory & Marketing to your Boss or Teacher on April 23rd
  43. How to Capture the Internet Dividend on April 17th
  44. More on Profit Pools, Pie Analogies and FREE on April 15th
  45. Page Weight, Speed & Good Ol’ Google Juice on April 12th
  46. Free Web Design Deflates the Industry Profit Pool on April 9th
  47. Why Advertisers Aren’t Investing in You on April 7th
  48. Boat Refugees in Australia are NOT Criminals on April 5th
  49. The Importance of Information Accessibility on April 3rd
  50. Online April Fool’s Jokes are an Accessibility Barrier on April 2nd
  51. Content’s Value is Over-Estimated by Producers on March 29th
  52. Court Expectations, Truth in Sentencing and Parole on March 27th
  53. Melanoma, Stand in Line you Bastard on March 25th
  54. Gunns, Liquidity and that Friggen’ Pulp Mill on March 21st
  55. Invisibility in Business is Game Over on March 19th
  56. Business Academics: Stop Promoting the Pinto Myth on March 13th
  57. Two Ways of Framing a Surcharge on March 10th
  58. Managing Upward as Opposed to Downward on March 7th
  59. The Importance of Reading Broadly on March 2nd
  60. Cold Steel (Book Review) on March 1st
  61. How to Appreciate the Amazingness of Life on February 28th
  62. Understanding the Postgraduate MBA Program on February 23rd
  63. Intranets Should be about People and Processes on February 22nd
  64. All Things New and Beautiful (Including Me) on February 21st
  65. MBA Skills and Small Organic Industry on February 20th
  66. What Books are on my Office Bookshelf? on February 17th
  67. The Incredible Life & Death of John Paul Jones on February 15th
  68. Cognitive Fluency through Affective Design on February 14th
  69. What the Dog Saw (Book Review) on February 12th
  70. Health, Wealth and Entrepreneurial Recidivism on February 11th
  71. Non-Cash Donations are Hindering the Red Cross on February 9th
  72. Profitability versus Cash Flow on February 8th
  73. Shifting Paradigms of Website User Interaction on February 5th
  74. Creeping Determinism of the Mobile Web on February 4th
  75. Stereotype Threat & Employee Performance on February 2nd
  76. The iPad: from a Technologist to a Technologist on February 1st
  77. Australian Law, A-Cup Pornography & the Big O on January 31st
  78. Is Firefox now my Internet Explorer? on January 29th
  79. Is the Uncanny Valley an Urban Legend? on January 26th
  80. Help Haiti by Cancelling their Debt on January 24th
  81. Culture Conquest through Globalisation on January 21st
  82. Why I Don’t Touch E-Commerce Projects on January 20th
  83. Why I Say the Independent was being Cheap on January 19th
  84. Jimmy Leach & Plagiarism at the Independent on January 17th
  85. Cloud Labour is open to Exploitation on January 16th
  86. Web Security and Ways to Fix It on January 15th
  87. The Limits of Power (Book Review) on January 14th
  88. The Collectors (Book Review) on January 13th
  89. Globalisation of the American Psyche on January 11th
  90. Confessions of an Eco-Sinner (Book Review) on January 9th
  91. Race to the Bottom & the Osterich Principle on January 7th
  92. Shonan Maru Whalers Rammed the Andy Gil on January 7th
  93. Blogging and Journalism are not Synonymous on January 3rd
  94. Monkeyluv (Book Review) on January 2nd
  95. What Killed the Occidental Production Managers? on December 31st
  96. Sketching User Experiences (Book Review) on December 28th
  97. Christmas 2009 as a Freshly Shot Duck on December 26th
  98. Sagmeister’s Eighth Year Sabbaticals on December 24th
  99. Buyers Change with the Context on December 20th
  100. CAST 2009 Members Exhibition on December 18th
  101. Big Tick for Amazon Customer Service on December 17th
  102. True Cost of Total Eyecare’s $40 Penalty Fee on December 14th
  103. Benford’s Law and Zipf’s Law on December 11th
  104. Do Business with Failure Embracers on December 9th
  105. Do Business with the Critique Enlightened on December 7th
  106. Do Business with Value-Aligned Professionals on December 5th
  107. Hire and Do Business with Problem Solvers on December 4th
  108. Never do Business with Litigious Assholes on December 3rd
  109. Why not to Argue with an Idiot (or Troll) on December 1st
  110. Vivek Wadhwa on Business School Entrepreneurs on November 29th
  111. Killing Congolese Babies for our Tech Toys on November 26th
  112. Honeypots, Trenches and Spambot Protection on November 22nd
  113. Contracts 101 – Conclusion: Protect your Business on November 20th
  114. Contracts 101 – Part 14: Ending the Contract on November 20th
  115. Contracts 101 – Part 13: Promissory Estoppel on November 19th
  116. Contracts 101 – Part 12: Genuine Consent on November 18th
  117. Contracts 101 – Part 11: Possibility of Performance on November 17th
  118. Contracts 101 – Part 10: Legality of Object on November 16th
  119. Contracts 101 – Part 9: Capacity on November 15th
  120. Contracts 101 – Part 8: Consideration on November 14th
  121. Contracts 101 – Part 7: Battle of the Forms on November 13th
  122. Contracts 101 – Part 6: The Acceptance on November 12th
  123. Contracts 101 – Part 5: The Offer on November 11th
  124. Contracts 101 – Part 4: The Agreement on November 10th
  125. Contracts 101 – Part 3: The Six Elements on November 9th
  126. Contracts 101 – Part 2: Which Contract? on November 8th
  127. Contracts 101 – Part 1: Outline on November 7th
  128. Resource Security: Tasmanian Milk on November 6th
  129. Blue Planet Run (Book Review) on November 4th
  130. Auschwitz, Congo and Plausable Deniability on November 3rd
  131. 6 Million Reasons to Reconsider your Next Upgrade on October 31st
  132. True North: Pre-Renaissance to Present on October 26th
  133. Authentic Leadership: Finding your True North on October 23rd
  134. The Science Will Always Find a Way Argument on October 20th
  135. The Late Great Denial Argument on October 18th
  136. Global Warming – For or Against? on October 16th
  137. Derek Powazek on SEO Practices on October 15th
  138. Abstraction versus Obfuscation in Design on October 13th
  139. Client Expectations and Sign-Off on October 11th
  140. Reasons to Hire a Local Contractor on October 8th
  141. Workload, Time Constraints, Pressure Test on October 7th
  142. Everything’s a Resource, Stupid! on October 4th
  143. Cooking Currency: The IMF’s SDR Money Factory on October 2nd
  144. The Vegemite iSnack 2.0 Show on September 29th
  145. Fixed Costs are Sunk Costs on September 27th
  146. Where the Wild Roses Grow… on September 24th
  147. Freelancers: Do you Understand your Costs? on September 23rd
  148. Factor in your Transaction Costs on September 21st
  149. How to Lose a Customer (the old way) on September 17th
  150. Sadly, Patrick Swayze Passed Away on September 15th
  151. Old Phone Numbers Don’t Disappear on September 13th
  152. Does Last Minute Study Help? on September 11th
  153. Do You Value Your Devil’s Advocate? on September 9th
  154. Homogenous Graphic Design: Good or Bad? on September 7th
  155. The Yes Men Fix the World on September 5th
  156. Face-to-Face v the Web from Gerry McGovern on August 31st
  157. Always On to Always Off in 5 Steps on August 29th
  158. Do we understand Quality of Life? on August 25th
  159. Cheap Food at what Price? on August 24th
  160. People, Interaction & Interface Design on August 21st
  161. A Hat Tip to Ronnie Biggs on August 17th
  162. Our Farmers are Important Because… on August 15th
  163. Consumer Worldview versus Designer Expectation on August 12th
  164. Understanding Psychological Projection on August 10th
  165. Where’s my Real Estate Gold Search? on August 9th
  166. Leveraging an Application’s Potential on August 7th
  167. Peak Fuel, Peak Food, Peak Production on August 5th
  168. Are You Still Buying into the Levis Legend? on August 4th
  169. Racists Here and Bombers There… on August 1st
  170. Cheap Labour on a One Trick Pony on July 31st
  171. Is Your Business a Bug’s Arse? on July 28th
  172. Design Principles and W3C Specs on July 25th
  173. Business: Homogenise and Perish on July 24th
  174. Humbert Humbertism (Excuse the Phrase) on July 21st
  175. Theory: Why Planes Fall Out of the Sky on July 19th
  176. HTML 5, Ego and Design by Committee on July 17th
  177. Peter Garrett goes Pro-Nuke, Pro-Pollute on July 16th
  178. Valued Innovation vs Stifled Idealism on July 14th
  179. Interface Design, Feature Creep and Complexity on July 13th
  180. Ricky Maynard on July 11th
  181. XHTML 2 Hits the Garbage Can on July 7th
  182. Designing a Web Advertising Business Model on July 4th
  183. W3C Open Web Education Alliance on July 2nd
  184. Designer’s Paradox and the Value of Review on July 1st
  185. Poimena Art Award 2009 for mixed media works on June 29th
  186. Managing the Customer Conversation on June 27th
  187. Website Content without Context = Crap on June 23rd
  188. Merlin Mann on Starting & Creativity on June 20th
  189. What is a Good Website Worth? on June 17th
  190. Avoid Using Creative Commons Images on June 14th
  191. Quantity, Quality & Speed on June 7th
  192. Joe Clark on Copyright for Creators on June 4th
  193. Ines of my Soul (Book Review) on May 31st
  194. 900,000 Australian Dead since 1950 on May 29th
  195. Cadbury Taste is now Budget Oily Rubbish on May 27th
  196. Moo Brew 2009 Imperial Stout on May 25th
  197. Validation Schmalidation & Context on May 23rd
  198. Treating Internet Explorer 6 with Style on May 22nd
  199. Culture: Values, Beliefs & Assumptions on May 21st
  200. Culture: Stories and Legends on May 20th
  201. Culture: Rituals & Ceremonies on May 19th
  202. Culture: Language, Dialect & Jargon on May 18th
  203. Culture: Physical Structures & Symbols on May 17th
  204. Culture is more than Demographics on May 15th
  205. Hiring Graduates by their Marks on May 13th
  206. Return on Investment or Die on May 10th
  207. Culture, Remixing and Ideas on May 7th
  208. When Torture becomes Normal on May 6th
  209. Perfection is a Digital Obsession on May 3rd
  210. Benefits versus Costs Redux on May 1st
  211. Photography & Ordinary Things on April 27th
  212. Evolutionary Standardistas on April 24th
  213. Professional Frontend Engineers on April 22nd
  214. Knowing Enough to Learn Something on April 21st
  215. Alco-Pops Tax and Cigarette Packaging on April 20th
  216. Raymond Arnold on April 18th
  217. Walking the Line in a Totalitarian Regime on April 17th
  218. Rossi Boots – Buy Australian on April 12th
  219. Zeldman on Big Think on April 11th
  220. Steam Burns, Beer and Breakfast on April 10th
  221. Good Web Design is often Invisible on April 9th
  222. Ian Tomlinson’s G20 Murder on Video on April 9th
  223. Redefining our Urban Spaces on April 8th
  224. Critical Mass and the Analogue Social Network on April 6th
  225. It’s Really Just a Series of Tubes on April 5th
  226. ‘Helping’ Can Become Academic Plagiarism on April 4th
  227. Moo Brew is the Premium Tasmanian Beer on March 31st
  228. Milan Milojevic Exhibition on March 29th
  229. Will our Economic Models Consume us? on March 26th
  230. Newspapers and the Unthinkable on March 22nd
  231. IE8 and all who Snail on her on March 20th
  232. Recession Tip: Don’t Drop your Prices Yet on March 19th
  233. No Standing Only Dancing (Book Review) on March 14th
  234. Otto Dix (1891 – 1969) on March 12th
  235. Christmas in Darfur on March 10th
  236. Doing Things and Getting Things Done on March 9th
  237. IP, AP, Shepard Fairey & Mannie Garcia on March 8th
  238. Abi Awarded in the HAEG Watermark on March 7th
  239. Bruce Temkin says Brands are Dying on March 4th
  240. Fighting for the Donation Pie on March 2nd
  241. Bob Brown’s Exhibition Opening on March 1st
  242. Video Ezy and Rental Interface Affordances on February 24th
  243. Wielangta Photography Exhibition on February 22nd
  244. AFP Pounces on Steve Irwin, Hobart on February 21st
  245. IE8 Blacklists Domains to IE7 Rendering on February 17th
  246. HITS: How Idiots Track Success on February 16th
  247. Realising the Social Networking Dividend on February 14th
  248. Reduce User Error through Good Design on February 12th
  249. Failure on the Liberal Party Watch on February 11th
  250. Australia through Flood and Fire on February 8th
  251. UK PM is a One Eyed Scottish Idiot? on February 8th
  252. Shepard Fairy Sued by AP over HOPE on February 6th
  253. Slumdog Millionaire (Movie Review) on February 5th
  254. Steven Clark Studio Site Launch on February 3rd
  255. Share your Dual H1 Heading Strategy on February 1st
  256. Responding to a Bully (DEPHA Example) on January 30th
  257. Here Comes Everybody (Book Review) on January 29th
  258. Red Feather Desktop Wallpaper on January 27th
  259. Multiple H1 Headings are Valid, But… on January 27th
  260. Photos for Sale on Etsy and CafePress on January 26th
  261. DO Lectures at Fforest Farm on January 25th
  262. Who to Hire as a Web Project Manager on January 22nd
  263. Web Project Managers Need to Step Up on January 21st
  264. Website Redesign: Linden Langdon on January 20th
  265. Photoblog: Walk a Mile in My Shoes (Redux) on January 20th
  266. Paper: A Ubiquitous Technology on January 18th
  267. Copyright, Corporations and Culture on January 16th
  268. Fascinating People: Design Matters on January 14th
  269. Human Minds, Interfaces and Large Datasets on January 13th
  270. Nifty Fifty Shoots at Super Crispy on January 11th
  271. Reassessment and Restructuring on January 9th
  272. Just Ask (Book Review) on January 8th
  273. Micro-Management Adds Costs on January 7th
  274. Do you have an IE6 Exit Strategy? on January 5th
  275. Cold War Modern on January 4th
  276. The Republican vs The Royalist on January 3rd
  277. Why Conforming Should be Avoided on January 1st
  278. Photoblog, Bandwidth & Beer on December 31st
  279. Managing Out of Date Content on December 30th
  280. Stylepedia (Book Review) on December 28th
  281. Are you a Marketer or a Mouse? on December 27th
  282. Best Wishes for your Christmas on December 26th
  283. Rise of the Foot Soldier (Movie Review) on December 23rd
  284. The Public Domain (Book Review) on December 21st
  285. Jeffrey Zeldman talks Web Design on December 20th
  286. Steven Clark BComp on December 18th
  287. Finally, I’m an Educated Man! on December 16th
  288. User Stylesheets to Identify New Windows on December 16th
  289. Redesign Schmedesign: IE vs the World on December 14th
  290. WCAG 2.0 Gets the Green Light on December 12th
  291. Redesign Schmedesign on December 11th
  292. Stop Providing Free and Cheap Labour, You Oinker on December 10th
  293. 24ways.org: A Sacred Cow? on December 10th
  294. Daring to be Different at 24ways.org? on December 9th
  295. Art, Design, Culture and Copyright Protections on December 8th
  296. Mental Models (Book Review) on December 7th
  297. Web Standards Solutions (Book Review) on December 6th
  298. Why Design is not Art: In Simple English on December 5th
  299. Technology and the Future of Publishing on December 3rd
  300. Transcending CSS (Book Review) on December 3rd
  301. 2009 Calendar Pack: A Present on December 2nd
  302. World Harvest and Natural Grid Calendars on December 1st
  303. Working for International Web Standards on November 30th
  304. Thank Fuck it’s Over Mr Twinkle… on November 28th
  305. Blue Beanie Day 2008 on November 28th
  306. Conversation: Richard Flanagan & Phillip Adams on November 27th
  307. Gerry McGovern on Web Content Migration on November 24th
  308. Mike Parr’s The Tilted Stage on November 23rd
  309. Disturbing Desktops: Our Little Psychopath on November 22nd
  310. Disturbing Desktops: The Human Pitbull on November 22nd
  311. Web Design Courses are Failing Us on November 21st
  312. Creative Commons Images: Black or White? on November 21st
  313. Potential Advertisers Need to be Specific on November 20th
  314. Photoshop Calculations for B&W Images on November 17th
  315. Talent, Hard Work and Late Bloomers on November 16th
  316. Photoblog: Walk a Mile in my Shoes on November 13th
  317. PayPal Fees in Grey and White on November 13th
  318. Spammers, Trolls and Plain Bad Manners on November 11th
  319. Emotional Design (Book Review) on November 11th
  320. Elon Musk of Tesla at the Web 2.0 Summit on November 10th
  321. Visual Explanations (Book Review) on November 8th
  322. WCAG 2.0 Proposed Recommendation on November 7th
  323. Progressive Enhancement with JavaScript on November 5th
  324. Utilising XHTML Prototypes on November 2nd
  325. Black Dodge and L’Astrolabe Calendars on November 1st
  326. Our Corporate Culture Should Support Failure on October 30th
  327. Ubiquity and the Web of Things on October 26th
  328. Is there Improved Usability in WordPress 2.7? on October 25th
  329. Progressive Enhancement with CSS on October 23rd
  330. Using the HTML Selector to Skin a Design Cat on October 23rd
  331. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us (Book Review) on October 22nd
  332. Opera’s MAMA giving a Statistical Analysis on October 21st
  333. Projects can turn into Programs on October 20th
  334. Linden Interviewed on Art Re-Source on October 19th
  335. Working with Grey Box Wireframes on October 18th
  336. On the Nature of Creative Genius on October 16th
  337. Hand Made Greeting Cards on October 13th
  338. Bad Ass Black Art School Dodge on October 12th
  339. Qantas and Cadbury Trash Their Brand on October 10th
  340. Cabel Sasser on Wedding Design on October 9th
  341. The Design of Everyday Things (Book Review) on October 5th
  342. Are You Managing Out of Date Content? on October 3rd
  343. Where is the Breadth in our Design? on October 2nd
  344. Heterogenous Social Networks on September 30th
  345. Alphabetical versus Random Order on September 29th
  346. Web Form Design (Book Review) on September 26th
  347. IE6 is not the User’s Problem on September 25th
  348. UK Gov’t Browser Guidance is Flawed (Here Too) on September 22nd
  349. JavaScript Ain’t Magic, Joe on September 20th
  350. Zeldman Discusses A List Apart on September 19th
  351. I AM a Real Designer! on September 17th
  352. World Wide Web Foundation Launched on September 16th
  353. Bill Buxton on the Design Ecosystem on September 15th
  354. D.I.Y. Design It Yourself (Book Review) on September 12th
  355. Firefox X.XX (in Not Too Sexy Then) on September 11th
  356. The Zen of CSS Design (Book Review) on September 5th
  357. WP Dynamic Body ID and Current Page on September 4th
  358. Fitts’s Law and Interface Design on August 31st
  359. 55 Trillion Hyperlinks Have Inherent Value on August 28th
  360. Don’t Be Afraid of the Big Bad Link on August 27th
  361. Avoid Designing Nav into the Background on August 26th
  362. Prevent SQL Injection Attacks in PHP on August 24th
  363. SQL ConnectToDatabase Function on August 23rd
  364. SQL Tip: Open Connection, Query, Close on August 22nd
  365. PHP Tip: Don’t use Echo to Code XHTML on August 21st
  366. Are We Leaving the Uncanny Valley? on August 20th
  367. Predicting the Next 5,000 Days of the Web on August 18th
  368. SQL for Comments and Pings in WordPress on August 17th
  369. Page Bloat and Download Scope Creep on August 14th
  370. More Accessible Popup Windows (If Coerced) on August 10th
  371. Strategic Templates and Snippets on August 8th
  372. Strategic CSS is Management Driven on August 2nd
  373. Correct Use of DIV and SPAN on July 31st
  374. External, Embedded and Inline CSS on July 27th
  375. Context is the Next Web Frontier on July 20th
  376. Scope Creep: Just an Extra Widget, Please? on July 17th
  377. Correct Use of Blockquote and Q on July 15th
  378. Don’t Blame the W3C for World Hunger on July 12th
  379. Named Anchors and Skip Navigation on July 11th
  380. What are your Core Competencies? on July 9th
  381. Serving CSS to Appropriate Browsers on July 4th
  382. Containing Floats (Redux) on July 3rd
  383. Title Attributes on Links, Tooltips and Accessibility on June 30th
  384. How to Make Accessible Image Links (Redux) on June 28th
  385. How Long is your IE Stylesheet? on June 24th
  386. Why I Dislike Flash Banners on June 23rd
  387. CMS Grafitti Can Be Reduced on June 21st
  388. Red Herring Phenomenon on June 20th
  389. Links and Affordance within a Design on June 18th
  390. Accessibility for Return on Investment on June 16th
  391. 406 Not Acceptable Error on June 15th
  392. How Cold Calling can Trash a Brand on June 14th
  393. Appreciate the Client’s Organisational Structure on June 12th
  394. We Must Design the Whole Experience on June 11th
  395. Building Accessible Websites (Book Review) on June 9th
  396. Should We Even Mention Our Process? on June 9th
  397. Its Time to Start Using WCAG 2.0 on June 7th
  398. Several Reasons to Avoid Accesskeys on June 6th
  399. Building Style Sheets for Maintainability on June 5th
  400. Why Having Two H1 Headings is Wrong on June 5th
  401. 99 Cows (Book Review) on June 4th
  402. Why Hijax (or Ajax) on Forms is No Good on June 1st
  403. Don’t Fear White Space in your Design on June 1st
  404. The Bootstrapper’s Bible (Book Review) on May 31st
  405. Using the Break Element on Forms on May 25th
  406. Web Design’s Golden Gun on May 19th
  407. Appreciate Your Front End Specialists on May 18th
  408. Poverty as an Accessibility Barrier on May 13th
  409. Jared Spool on Mental Models on May 10th
  410. Filching in Class is a Programming Sin on May 5th
  411. Why Don’t I Enjoy Written Interviews? on May 2nd
  412. What do you have that’s not in Mumbai? on April 30th
  413. No Country for Old Men (Movie Review) on April 30th
  414. How Restaurants can Rule the Web on April 27th
  415. Don’t Box the Blog with the Software on April 26th
  416. Reviews on this Site are Independent on April 23rd
  417. Unleashing the Ideavirus (Book Review) on April 22nd
  418. Facing your Business Blog Outward on April 21st
  419. Capturing Ideas behind the Firewall on April 20th
  420. Blogs and Wikis Behind the Firewall on April 19th
  421. The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Movie Review) on April 19th
  422. All Marketers are Liars (Book Review) on April 17th
  423. Conte Crayon Journal on April 12th
  424. I Am Legend has an Authentic Story on April 10th
  425. Undergraduate Writing Tips on April 9th
  426. Cabel Sasser’s Coda Confidential on April 7th
  427. Actively Participate in your Career on April 4th
  428. CSS and the Usual Suspects List on March 31st
  429. Solving Error #80048820 and #80048439 on March 30th
  430. Clay Shirky on Social Media and Groups on March 28th
  431. How Does the Brain Interpret Art? on March 26th
  432. Beautiful Evidence (Book Review) on March 23rd
  433. Expanding on Gardner’s Intelligences on March 22nd
  434. Vector Magic and a Sustainable Long Tail on March 18th
  435. How to be a Graphic Designer (Book Review) on March 16th
  436. NZ Government Web Standards Wiki on March 13th
  437. What Interests Bring You to this Career? on March 13th
  438. Cradle to Cradle (Book Review) on March 10th
  439. The Pandemic of Web Mediocrity on March 7th
  440. IE8 to Use Standards Mode by Default on March 4th
  441. Elastic Layouts Still Have Issues on March 4th
  442. The Elements of Typographic Style (Book Review) on February 28th
  443. IE8 – Why Not Strict Instead of Meta? on February 26th
  444. Dynamic Body ID in Wordpress on February 24th
  445. Perception and the Design on February 23rd
  446. Revised Opinion of IE8 Version Targeting on February 22nd
  447. Stock Photography and Design Thieves on February 19th
  448. display: table and Firefox Intermittent Pain on February 17th
  449. Install Extra WordPresses as Pages on February 13th
  450. The Pain of Third Party Templates on February 10th
  451. Designing Web Usability (Book Review) on February 8th
  452. Cradle to Cradle: Sustain by Design on February 6th
  453. DHTML Utopia (Book Review) on February 5th
  454. Don’t Make Me Think! (Book Review) on February 3rd
  455. Web Standards vs Contemporary Best Practice on February 2nd
  456. Contain Floats Without Adding Structure on January 31st
  457. The Internet in Plain Old English on January 30th
  458. The Design of Flexible Identity Schemes on January 27th
  459. Data, Branding and Interaction Design on January 25th
  460. The Version Targeting In IE8 Proposal on January 24th
  461. Three Pillars of Good Web Design on January 22nd
  462. Selling Your True Skillset in Interviews on January 20th
  463. First Analyse the Client’s Web Problem on January 18th
  464. GIF and JPG Basics for Beginners on January 16th
  465. You Need More Than Unit Tests on January 15th
  466. Do Premium Themes Add Up? on January 14th
  467. False Claim of a Registered Trademark on January 13th
  468. GET vs POST for the Beginner on January 12th
  469. I’m Not There (Movie Review) on January 11th
  470. Russian Dolls Performing Recursion on January 9th
  471. Use Comment Blocks Before Functions on January 8th
  472. Was Acid 2 Only for the In Crowd? on January 7th
  473. Hand Drawn Elements in Web Design on January 4th
  474. Joe Clark on Horses and HTML 5 on January 3rd
  475. Why Are You Still Using One Monitor? on January 2nd
  476. How CMS Could Trash Your Brand on December 28th
  477. 2 Days in Paris (Movie Review) on December 23rd
  478. Bulletproof Ajax (Book Review) on December 23rd
  479. The New Look Web 2.0 BBC Beta on December 19th
  480. Is Chinese Manufacturing Sustainable? on December 17th
  481. DOM Scripting (Book Review) on December 15th
  482. Why Do You Need a Website? on December 11th
  483. Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications (Book Review) on December 8th
  484. Think about Timeboxing your Project on December 7th
  485. HTML Email is a Marketing Conversation on December 6th
  486. A Series of Flawed Assumptions on December 3rd
  487. Support your Independent Thinkers on December 3rd
  488. Linden’s Prints on Etsy on November 27th
  489. A Framework Question for Code Purists on November 26th
  490. Look at Frameworks as Just a Useful Tool on November 24th
  491. WordPress: Page Within a Page on November 23rd
  492. Font Family as a Last Alternative on November 21st
  493. Publishing in Multiple Languages on November 19th
  494. VectorMagic BETA Online Vectorization on November 16th
  495. Is HTML 5 Apathetic Your Cup of Tea? on November 13th
  496. A Little Jaded on Accessibility? on November 11th
  497. Unavailable Keyboard at Startup? on November 8th
  498. Diabolical Design by Jason Santa Maria on November 4th
  499. Where is your Original Design? on November 3rd
  500. I Don’t Care About Blind People on October 26th
  501. Ninety Ninety Rule of Programming on October 25th
  502. Install WAMP 5 and WordPress on XP on October 23rd
  503. Designing for the New Resolution II on October 23rd
  504. Designing for the New Resolution on October 22nd
  505. Prototyping with JumpChart on October 21st
  506. Don’t Throw Out Your Old Monitor on October 20th
  507. Our Local Web Audience is International on October 16th
  508. Tas Gov’t Web Publishing Guidelines on October 12th
  509. Pareto’s Law and Web Development on October 11th
  510. Quick Introduction to WordPress on October 10th
  511. Installing WordPress on Localhost on October 10th
  512. Developing Sophisticated Designs on October 5th
  513. Your Client and the Psychological Contract on October 2nd
  514. The Cutting Edge of Occam’s Razor on September 29th
  515. Selling Personas and Scenarios to Students on September 27th
  516. Accessibility, Usability and Resizing Widgets on September 26th
  517. The Human Condition of Attribution on September 25th
  518. Content, Presentation, Behaviour on September 22nd
  519. Joel Spolsky and Web Worker Daily on September 19th
  520. EclipseME and Nokia SDK Config on September 19th
  521. Why is Using MAILTO Incompetent? on September 18th
  522. The Business Case for Blogging on September 17th
  523. Should You Be Relationship Marketing? on September 14th
  524. Design Technique 18: Design Journal on September 12th
  525. Design Technique 17: Morgue File on September 12th
  526. The Solution is a HTML 5 Apathetic Doctype on September 8th
  527. Design Technique 16: Rapid Prototyping on September 6th
  528. Designing for Opera Mini on September 2nd
  529. Why File Size Still Matters on the Web on August 31st
  530. Design Technique 15: Scenarios on August 29th
  531. Design Technique 14: Card Sorting on August 26th
  532. But How Does a Manager Know? on August 25th
  533. Design Technique 13: User Stories on August 22nd
  534. Design Technique 12: Parallel Design on August 19th
  535. Design Technique 11: Use Cases on August 19th
  536. Design Technique 10: Page Description Diagrams on August 16th
  537. Design Technique 9: Content Inventory on August 14th
  538. Design Technique 8: The Office Wall on August 13th
  539. Design Technique 7: Prototypes on August 11th
  540. Design Technique 6: Wireframes on August 11th
  541. Design Technique 5: Mood Boards on August 10th
  542. Design Technique 4: Personas on August 9th
  543. Design Technique 3: HTML Storyboards on August 7th
  544. Design Technique 2: Storyboards on August 6th
  545. Design Technique: Rich Pictures on August 5th
  546. Should There Be Two H1’s on a Page? on August 1st
  547. The Customer May Be Wrong on July 30th
  548. Paul Boag on Web Standards on July 27th
  549. The Fold and Its Receding Relevance on July 26th
  550. Make Websites About Your Users on July 18th
  551. Screen Magnification Software on July 9th
  552. Design Thinking as a Management Methodology on July 4th

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My name is Steven Clark (aka nortypig) and my passions are business, web development, photography and writing. My current CV [PDF 775KB] is available for download. Currently I'm completing my 2 final units of a post-graduate university degree of MBA (Journalism and Media Studies) at the University of Tasmania.

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Light Science and Magic by Hunter, Biver and Fuqua - cover

The time has come for me to get more involved in upping my technical photography skills if I hope to embark on a Master of Fine Art and Design (Photography) next year. To that end my first book is the highly recommended Light Science & Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting (Third Edition) by Fil Hunter, Steven Biver and Paul Fuqua. What really differentiates this book is the comprehensive set of exercises and the detailed explanation of the underlying science of light in the real world that encompasses the reader's journey.