justaddwater.dk » Humor http://justaddwater.dk Instant Usability & Web Standards Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:23:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Spoken Git Commit Log — Another Annoyance at the Office http://justaddwater.dk/2009/09/30/spoken-git-commit-log-%e2%80%94-another-annoyance-at-the-office/ http://justaddwater.dk/2009/09/30/spoken-git-commit-log-%e2%80%94-another-annoyance-at-the-office/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:23:26 +0000 Jesper Rønn-Jensen http://justaddwater.dk/?p=1161 Here is a short one-liner that really annoyed my colleagues today.
I set my mac to read aloud all changes in the repository since yesterday:

git  log --pretty=format:"%an commit %s, %ad." --date=relative --since=yesterday |say

if you remove the “say” command in the end it’s actually pretty readable:

pagerbak commit VA17, 34 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit VA17 - Not used, 35 minutes ago.
therikss commit , 48 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit Checkstyle configuration, 56 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit Checkstyle configuration, 56 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit Checkstyle configuration, 57 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit Checkstyle configuration, 57 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit Checkstyle configuration, 57 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit Checkstyle configuration, 57 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit Checkstyle configuration, 58 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit Library update. Axis2 updated, 58 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit Checkstyle configuration, 59 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit New certificates, VA17, Library update, Checkstyle, 60 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit Checkstyle configuration, 61 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit Checkstyle configuration, 62 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit ?, 63 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit Checkstyle configuration, 63 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit Added a few extra SAML2 related methods for VA17, 64 minutes ago.
nstrandb commit fixes, 75 minutes ago.
nstrandb commit fixes, 75 minutes ago.
pagerbak commit VA17 Login for existing user work., 76 minutes ago.

While reading it aloud seems pretty evil and intriguing, it was actually bit of a laugh at the office.

PS. Time to look for a better hobby :)

]]> http://justaddwater.dk/2009/09/30/spoken-git-commit-log-%e2%80%94-another-annoyance-at-the-office/feed/ 0 Hitler’s Final Agile Planning Meeting http://justaddwater.dk/2009/04/29/hitlers-final-agile-planning-meeting/ http://justaddwater.dk/2009/04/29/hitlers-final-agile-planning-meeting/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:47:02 +0000 Jesper Rønn-Jensen http://justaddwater.dk/?p=1060 It all ends with the fatal Iteration#6 — at least according to this video a colleague pointed me to.

Video clip is taken from “The Downfall” and texted as if we were attending a daily scrum meeting during world war II.

]]> http://justaddwater.dk/2009/04/29/hitlers-final-agile-planning-meeting/feed/ 4 Could You Fit The Internet In Windows Recycle Bin? http://justaddwater.dk/2008/08/03/could-you-fit-the-internet-in-windows-recycle-bin/ http://justaddwater.dk/2008/08/03/could-you-fit-the-internet-in-windows-recycle-bin/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:07:15 +0000 Jesper Rønn-Jensen http://justaddwater.dk/?p=942 “Send ‘Internet’ to Recycle bin?”

That was the question Windows asked me the other day when I was about to delete a shortcut from my desktop :)

]]> http://justaddwater.dk/2008/08/03/could-you-fit-the-internet-in-windows-recycle-bin/feed/ 7 The Dark Side of Information Architecture http://justaddwater.dk/2008/06/18/the-dark-side-of-information-architecture/ http://justaddwater.dk/2008/06/18/the-dark-side-of-information-architecture/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:32:12 +0000 Jesper Rønn-Jensen http://justaddwater.dk/?p=933 ]]> Dark side of IA. Actually, these are two odd shaped holes in the city wall of Alcúdia, Mallorca, Spain. It immediately reminded me of the letters I and A. I publish them under creative commons license, so feel free to use.

Dark side of IA

This is what it looked like when the flash fired:
Brighter side of IA

Photos taken on our holiday to Mallorca, Spain. Took a lot of (family) photos. Here are some of the better:
IMG_2007IMG_1894IMG_1820IMG_1806IMG_1759IMG_1640IMG_1609IMG_1518

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Four years ago we had the usability rap (along with the excellent gangsta-style cartoons from the OK/Cancel guys):

Jakob Nielsen and Jared Spool - gangsta style okcancel20040206

(the mp3 file with the actual rap seems to have disappeared… could anybody point me to a working link?)

Now there is this even cooler rap. Web design tutorial by Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper). This one is called “Design Coding”.

I wonder where is there a transscript of the rap, search engine optimized?Update: Molly Holzschlag posted entire transscript (thanks Phil Nash for mentioning).

Make sure you also check out the other videos like “Link Building 101 Rap” and “Do the Page Rank”.

Hmm i feel like sneaking a movie clip into a presentation at work in the near future…

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This year, I’m more than ever looking forward to use it. The calendar has — as always — 12 brilliant examples of how not to build a calendar.

bad-usability-calendar-2008-september.png

What’s even better, the calendar now has it’s own dedicated website: www.badusability.com, where it’s also possible to upload photos of the calendar in the wild.

Like last year, I’ll ask Thomas Baekdal to work with me on a Danish version… unless somebody else puts it up before us (if you plan to translate it, drop me a note so I don’t waste the time).

Download from www.badusability.com

Our mention last year: Bad Usability Calendar 2007 in Danish

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Logo for make my logo bigger

logo with customer quotes

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]]> http://justaddwater.dk/2008/01/03/make-logo-bigger-cream/feed/ 4 1996 Humour Ahead: Spacer.gif, Table Layouts http://justaddwater.dk/2007/12/06/1996-humour-ahead-spacergif-table-layouts/ http://justaddwater.dk/2007/12/06/1996-humour-ahead-spacergif-table-layouts/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:28:01 +0000 Jesper Rønn-Jensen http://justaddwater.dk/2007/12/06/1996-humour-ahead-spacergif-table-layouts/ In case you missed it, Dustin Diaz has written this excellent parody on what the hottest web techniques were like before webstandards and css were invented.
Seven hottest web 1.0 techniques to trick out your webpage.

2) Animation without JavaScript

Believe it! It’s true. Drop those old scripts that made your website scroll and blink because why bother programming JavaScript when plain ‘ol HTML can do it for you! These are the ever-so-beloved

<blink>

and

<marquee>

tags.

blink and marquee

<blink>Sale! Sale! Sale! Buy now and save big!</blink>

<marquee>Welcome welcome welcome! Today is the beginning of the end, buy now!</marquee>

Fabulous humour, just the way I like it :). Especially I love the hit counter:

Hits today

Oh and by the way, did you know who invented the spacer.gif?

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]]> http://justaddwater.dk/2007/12/06/1996-humour-ahead-spacergif-table-layouts/feed/ 2 Happy 2nd birthday http://justaddwater.dk/2007/10/14/happy-2nd-birthday/ http://justaddwater.dk/2007/10/14/happy-2nd-birthday/#comments Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:04:35 +0000 Thomas Watson Steen http://justaddwater.dk/2007/10/14/happy-2nd-birthday/ Justaddwater 2nd BirthdayToday is a great day. At least if you ask Jesper and my self. I just got a call from Jesper who was out shopping with his family, wishing me a happy birthday. Today it’s exactly two years ago that we postet our first post on Justaddwater.dk and we are still going strong.

We would like to thank all our readers who keep coming to our site over and over again. By reading and commenting on our posts you guys show us great support. It is because of you that we love doing this.

So what happend since our last birthday? Well we have one thing that we thought we might share with you:

If you want to attract a lot of visitors to your blog, write about something funny. Of our top 5 posts for the last year, one of them was titled “Funny Signs” and the other “More Visual HTML Jokes“. And lets just remember that the “Funny Signs” post was actually not posted within the last year. It’s from May 2006 and still bringing in many visitors each month. This of cause might have something to do with the fact that if you perform an image search for funny signs on Google we are in the top 5. It’s a strange world.

Stats

12 months ago we started to use FeedBurner to manage our feeds. Within that year it has been so exiting to watch our reader stats grow and grow. A couple of weeks ago we pased the magical 1000 feed readers per day:

Justaddwater FeedBurner reader stats for 2006-2007

Put on top of that an average of 400 visitors per day coming to our site from other sources (referrels, web searches etc.) and lets just say that Jesper and I are quite proud to say the least.

Top posts

  1. Funny Signs
  2. Design for Browser Size — Not Screen Size
  3. More visual HTML jokes
  4. How to indicate required or optional form fields
  5. Live search explained
  6. Bad Usability Calendar
  7. Ruby on Rails as rapid prototyping tool
  8. Lenovo Problem: No Wireless Reconnect After Standby
  9. The IE PNG fix vs. Accessibility
  10. Replacement for Standard Windows Console

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windows-xp-critical-battery-warning.png

AFTER the computer shuts down, so I see it when I plug it in and turn it on again?

]]> Why is it that my laptop gives me this warning:

windows-xp-critical-battery-warning.png

AFTER the computer shuts down, so I see it when I plug it in and turn it on again?

Not only a very badly timed warning that’s completely irrelevant when I see it. But also an example of defaults that are badly configured. Completely useless, and even though it dissappears after a few moments, it still reminds me of basic usability flaws on my computer.

(Disclaimer: I have been adjusting the defaults battery and power settings, so I may have accidentally changed something without my knowing. However, I can assure you that it’s not on purpose because the message annoys me everytime I see it)

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