Archive for October, 2005
October 18th, 2005
The king of usability Jakob Nielsen has list the top ten design mistakes for weblogs. So I thought I would check out how Hypercubed blog stack up. 9/10 is not bad right? Well it is if that is the number of usability rules you’ve broken. Let’s go over them one-by-one:1. No Author BiographiesNot having [...]
Posted in Blogging | 2 Comments »
October 11th, 2005
I get lots of e-mail spam and I mean a lot. For some reason much of it is in Russian. Maybe because of a post I made about the ease of translating e-mails in outlook. I don’t translate it by the way, in case you Russian spammers are listening. The rest [...]
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October 9th, 2005
McDonald’s is once again running their Monopoly Game. For those that don’t know this game is played by collecting game pieces (monopoly properties) through purchasing certain products at McDonalds. This game is very popular among consumers which is surprising considering that the first 6 years or so that they ran the game were a complete fraud. Turned [...]
Posted in Just for Fun | 3 Comments »
October 7th, 2005
I was flipping through the periodicals that I have subscriptions to and I thought “What an interesting collection of magazines.” Here are a few… What does this say about me? It sure covers my interests fairly well.P.S. I’m not really a Paris Hilton fan… she just happened to be on the cover [...]
Posted in Just for Fun | 4 Comments »
October 4th, 2005
So I recently was caught in a discussion about the five-second rule. You know that rule that says if you drop a piece of food on the floor it is ok to eat if you pick it up within 5-seconds. One person said that they thought the rule was disproved. I disagreed and said that I thought [...]
Posted in Scepticism | 6 Comments »
