Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Emergency Web Updates Are Snow Joke
Thursday, January 7, 2010 10:00 168 CommentsRight: let’s just get this straight. On Tuesday night, overnight, there was what is known in meteorological circles as a ruddy great lot of snow over North-East England. As this was expected, according to the forecasts, when I’d picked up Bigger Lad from school on Tuesday, I asked his teacher whether I should check the [...]
Worst Value In Government IT
Monday, January 4, 2010 7:20 56 CommentsWith thanks to the delightful @IanCuddy for bringing this to my attention… Basically, it would appear that a “high profile public sector organization” is looking for a web editor, as evidenced by an advert on a particular job site. For this post, certain skills are essential — you need to understand the internet, HTML, be [...]
Decade Bug: Consultancy Services Available
Thursday, December 31, 2009 7:40 41 CommentsSome of you may remember that, ten years ago, there was some concern that all of the computers in the world would crash, melt down, catch ahad, and generally civilisation would come crashing to a halt, and there would be gangs roaming the streets in a post-apocalyptic future with only Max Rockatansky to stand between [...]
An End To Lineker’s Wimbledon-Watching
Saturday, December 12, 2009 7:20 190 CommentsAnd that’s it: the end of an era. Teletext’s news and information service is switching off on December 14/15. Teletext.co.uk “Untitled Page” For readers outside the UK, teletext is — was — a text based service available through the telly. It had TV listings, news, sport and stuff all available to read, in chunky 1980s [...]
Data Recovery Disasters
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 7:20 30 CommentsAs usual, Kroll Ontrack have produced their annual report of the top 10 data recovery disasters. It’s one of those things which can be interesting when you want something vaguely IT-related to read at work on the run up to Christmas but you can’t really be bothered to actually, you know… work. Obviously the stories [...]
WebAIM Screenreader Survey Results 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009 7:20 4 CommentsAs the title of this article suggests, WebAIM have released the results of their second screen reader survey. I would therefore suggest you head over there and read those results for yourself. Or you can head over an look at their summary. If you can’t be bothered to do either of those things, you might [...]
Who Goes Here? (Site Statistics)
Saturday, October 31, 2009 7:20 4 CommentsOne of the problems for people who trawl through their site statistics from time to time is a tendency to start looking at them too regularly and trying to find patterns which don’t actually exist. This is when you start asking yourself things like “how come my page visits are 0.3% down on last month?”. [...]
Accessibility Allies Against A11y
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:20 43 CommentsOne of the things common to all web geekery is the use of the acronym. Everyone has their favourite TLA even if some people will argue about the precise semantic definition of an acronym in the first place. I don’t really have a problem with the use of acronyms, provided that they are expanded (whether [...]
Super Mondays Barcamp-tastic Whiteboard Skills Atrocious
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:20 11 CommentsYes, as you might have guessed, SuperMondays, which I attended last month have had another event, and it has had a barcamp kind of a feel to it, with three different breakout sessions, each offering the chance to take in one of three different discussions (well, in theory). There was a little introduction to the [...]
An Analytics Problem for the UK Public Sector
Monday, October 26, 2009 7:20 35 CommentsIn short: if you’re a government site, you must have a stats audit, and you’re potentially about to head into a major problem with using cookies in future… It is mandatory for Government sites to have stats audits: In the current climate of open, transparent and accountable government, it is now mandatory for government websites [...]