I think this came from an article on UXmatters: Databases are one of the ways of organizing information. And it's really popular due to the specifics of computers. Computers work great with numbers. Slicing data into small parts, organizing it, and indexing is what computers do great and fast. People, though, don't organize information that way in their heads. Associations between objects are too complex and differ from one person to another.

This one is from a javascript file by an unknown colleague at CivicActions. * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * there is a rediculous amount of stupidity going on here to deal with * safari + ie + ff + tabs + gmaps + form data * don't mess with this unless you enjoy a belt sander in the eye. Judging by the type of humor I think I know who it is.

Chx in IRC my native language is Drupal / PHP from Chx can not be distracted dot com. lol See more quotes.

Last night at The Valley In Christchurch: [Get a MacBook] then you can use a laptop the way it was intended

This tag cloud is great! The implementation isn't ideal with the font tag, but it works nicely and is quite effective from a usability POV too;

This great article on web readability and usability based on results of eye-tracking analysis was fairly unsurprising for me, except for this snippet; Clean, clear faces in images attract more eye fixation. While they might look good with your design, abstract and artsy photos aren’t going to garner much reader attention. If you’re using photos with people in them, make sure they are clear, easy to read shots. It should also be noted that photos with “real” people, not models, perform better.

DrupalSouth registrations opened a couple of days ago and there are already almost 30 registered attendees! Capacity is limited to 100 and it is expected to sell out, so get in quick! Registration costs just $67.50 NZD including GST ($60 for non-NZ businesses) and includes lunch, coffee and tea on both days – not to mention access to a great line up of speakers and sessions on awesome topics. Here is the full announcement;

So I found an obscure bug on TradeMe, but there is no way to report it. The contact us section just led to an unhelpful help page. The only email address I could find was mediaenquiries@trademe.co.nz on the Corporate enquiries page. So in order to report the bug I have to blog about it, so I can pass it off as media. Frick! How hard would it be to have a contact form that is read and where useful messages are directed accordingly and other messages are ignored.

Dan Lennox @ emspace has gone to a lot of trouble reviewing drupal's contrib themes. This is really useful for anyone seeking a contrib theme for their client's site. It would be great to have this sort of data available on d.o to make it maintainable in the long term. Continue discussion at groups.drupal.org

On Saturday I was fortunate to be able to see Richard Stallman speak right here in Christchurch, NZ. He spoke on "free software in ethics and practice"; the issues of non-free software, how it affects our society, what the FSF is doing about it, what we as individuals and computer users can do about it and free software in schools and education. He spoke extensively on the "four freedoms" that software users should be entitled to and even suggested they should be classed as human rights.