I’ve just had the dubious pleasure of trying to use the Inland Revenue’s website to file my tax return. Last year I thought I’d take the plunge and try using their site, and it was a pretty nasty, anxiety-inducing, experience. This year they didn’t even send me a form, but instead I got a letter [...]
Check out the piece about Madeleine Albright new memoirs in the Guardian today. It’s really good on the difficulties facing women in positions of power in government, and the way women in power are perceived. For example, she says “if women leaders had acted the way Arafat and Barak did during Camp David, they would [...]
New security measures for beleagured Blaine – we went down there at the weekend and discovered our route to Pizza Express has been made significantly longer as we have to walk around all the David Blaine watchers and the extra security. And all the grass has been worn away by the crowds. Several homeless people [...]
The ESRC has posted a press release about how growing old can prove extra lonely for gay men, lesbians and bisexuals. Shall I pretend to be surprised? The ‘gay scene’ is full of the glorification of young, cute people at the expense of everyone else. And yes, this is real with the straight community too, [...]
David Blaine is sitting in a perspex box at the end of our road. It’s very strange indeed. He seems to have decided it’ll be cool to spend 44 days without food or real contact with the outside world. Lots of people have been going down to look at him and a few have been [...]
Got a problem with spam? Try Sneakemail, which provides disposable email addresses. Pretty nifty for signing up for newsletters and, I guess, adding comments to Bojates :-)
I’ve been playing, very vaguely, with the layout of Internet Explorer’s toolbars. I use IE as my main browser (for speed and ease of access to all those poorly coded sites) and figured it was worth spending some time getting it to a state I like. I prefer to have the top toolbars take up [...]
Check out this funny group photo.
Charlotte Green – “So sexed up I should be in a government dossier”. Need I say more?
I have found the most wonderful site. Elegant Hack’s title tag is Information architecture, usability and interaction design issues, plus the odd thought and it seems to be true. Go to the homepage and then resize your browser for the first joy. Then start reading the blog. This is one for web usability geeks, sure, [...]