Best. News story. Ever.
In his seminal 1946 essay, Politics and the English Language, George Orwell outlined some simple guidelines for writing. These include:
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An email to Wired News
Hello Wired News people,
It was 21 years ago today...
When I was back in Ireland for Christmas, I helped a friend to clean his parent’s PC of spyware. There were about 30 separate pieces of malware lurking inside the computer. His cousin’s computer had over 100.
Yub nub!
I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that Jamie, head-honcho at Message, has a brother who is a famous act-ohr.
Delicious raw materials
It is no coincidence that industrial manufacturing plants aggregate close to sources of raw material. The North of England and the Ruhrgebiet in Germany were both rich sources of coal and centres of industry.
Portfolio piece
I’ve been tinkering with my portfolio. I decided that rather than having a long list of all the work I’ve done, it would be better to highlight just a few pieces that I’m particularly proud of.
DHTML is dead. Long live DOM Scripting.
Just in case I haven’t completely hammered the point home lately, I have a feeling that 2005 is going to see a big surge in the use of the Document Object Model with JavaScript.
Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking...
Waterloo: Napoleon did surrender. What better way to commemorate that event of 1815 than naming a train station after it?
It's a small world network after all
I’ve been spending most of my time over at Message lately working on a big intranet project. It’s not just a website behind a firewall. It’s more like a desktop application on the web that happens to reside in a walled garden.
Free as in beer
A few weeks ago I spent a most pleasant Sunday evening in a Dublin bar called Solas. Myself and my friends were enjoying the free WiFi and the excellent range of cocktails and beers on offer.
Stepping out of the page
While I was relaxing in Ireland over Christmas, I was blissfully cut off from my usual diet of a constant stream of RSS feeds. I didn’t mind missing the latest news stories, magazine articles and blog entries but I did feel a twinge of guilt when I
Divination of the DOM
As one year wanes and another waxes, it’s traditional for newspapers, television programmes and websites to post lists. Usually those lists offer a backwards-over-the-shoulder look at the year gone by as they posit the best movies and music of the l
The turning of the year
Belated Happy New Year