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Note that our spam experiment scheduled for December 15th got mentioned by the Akismet Blog, Blogherald, and many other blogs. Akismet Blog: Letting Spam In For A Day Blogherald: Will you turn off Akismet? Follow along in Technorati blog reactions for Justaddwater.dk Also to answer some of the comments we got: Binh Nguyen: How about […]

Just a quick note to mention that my friend Eidar and his colleagues at Netlife Research in Norway are now preparing the 2008 version of the Bad Usability Calendar. Please do post your proposals as a bad usability calendar is a perfect wallpaper and I have used it on several occasions for raising awareness about […]

Get ready for a suicide mission: On this blog, we will remove our spam filter completely for one day, December 15th. Today we got our spam comment number 500,000. Pretty scary to think how much energy, computer power, network traffic is wasted on a completely useless activity: To spoil the content with irrelevant comments. Currently […]

A problem in a current Rails app just found a decent solution, as Danish letters like æøå did not show up decently. It turned out (surprise) that Outlook had a problem accepting UTF-8 charset. On the Meeting model in the Rails app I want to save to calendar in an Outlook compatible format. We solved […]

What’s Watir? Read “Watir: Another sweetspot for Enterprise Ruby” Is it possible to run JavaScript functions or execute code from within your Watir test scripts? As a matter of fact it is, but I had a hard time finding the proper documentation for it. Here is what to do and how: Call JavaScript Functions from […]

I just got an event invitation on Facebook asking me to join “Blue Beanie Day“. Two questions quickly popped into my head: What is a Blue Beanie? Where do I get one? If you are into web standards and accessibility you have already seen a blue beanie on the cover of Jeffery Zeldman’s great book […]

The non-technical version: Last Thursday we unfortunately had an intruder on Justaddwater.dk. The cracker used a flaw in our blogging software to gain administrative access to it. With this access the cracker placed a secret backdoor on the server. It seems that the intention of the cracker where to use our server to host illegal […]

I have recently been working with usability an internal timereporting system in Capgemini. Due to time and scope limitations, there has been focus on the “low hanging fruit”.

Here are some of the lessons learned.

On some computers, Amazon are preparing for the final steps of rolling out their new redesign… Just in time for Christmas shopping. (click to see full length screenshot) Amazon is often called the most intensely tested website in the world. Much of the design decisions and prioritations of content are based on automatic algorithms. So […]

Since I got my Lenovo Thinkpad T60p I have always wondered why the fan kept running away (even just after booting). Turns out there is a program to manipulate the speed of the fan: tpfancontrol With this, you can tune your fan speed and follow the temparature readings at the right. Using this program permanently […]

Take a look at Khoi Vinhs brilliant article If It Looks Like a Cow, Swims Like a Dolphin and Quacks Like a Duck, It Must Be Enterprise Software: Enterprise software, it can hardly be debated, is pretty bad stuff. The high-dollar applications that businesses use to run their internal operations. […] If you work at […]