by Rob Mason ~ February 27th, 2008 Filed under: Aside, Random, Rant | No Comments »
…shame it can’t do the basics! For those not in the know the IAB are a UK-based trade association for the internet marketing industry
. They’ve just re-launched their website with a new look and feel, which is not too shabby and also offers a mobile version. Continue reading »
by Rob Mason ~ February 26th, 2008 Filed under: Aside, Rant | No Comments »
…but apparently owning some design software does make someone a website designer! Freelance Freedom at FreelanceSwitch has done a great cartoon on a very serious issue which has been bugging me for a while. Continue reading »
by Rob Mason ~ January 24th, 2008 Filed under: Rant, Web standards | No Comments »

Many people have already commented on Microsoft’s announcement regarding backwards compatibility in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), some with far more legitimacy than me to provide their opinions (A List Apart for one).
But I have an opinion so here goes: to me it all boils down to evolution. Continue reading »
by Rob Mason ~ January 20th, 2008 Filed under: Rant, Useful stuff | No Comments »
Update: thanks to the website owner the content in question has been removed
Apparently even lowly websites such as mine can be attacked by scrapers! For those not in the know, scrapers are low-born scum whose websites serve only to prey on other people’s RSS feeds, publish that content and then pass it off as their own. Continue reading »
by Rob Mason ~ January 10th, 2008 Filed under: Random, Rant | No Comments »
Maybe it’s just me, but a children’s book by Microsoft aimed at explaining the in’s and out’s of Windows Home Server sounds slightly absurd. Like I’m going to go out and buy some hardware because my 5-year old says so!
Thanks to UX Magazine for the link.
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