Links: Other places the Computer deems useful, valuable, and / or nontreasonous.

No. Seriously. Happy lunar new year 2007. (Plus lots of CSS menu links.)

Feb 18, 2007

Happy lunar new year! Health, luck, and prosperity to everybody.

And on a completely different and thoroughly unrelated note, this is a great resource for creating CSS-driven navigation lists. Horizontal, vertical, tabbed, nested, you name it and it’s there. The site also has a chart listing which techniques work in which browser(s). This tool lets you generate custom list code online (highly useful for people who don’t know HTML, or are in an especial hurry to just get the list code and go). This site turned up in my search results for +css +list, but I haven’t examined it thoroughly…yet. It looks promising.

Permalink

Look - up in the sky! It's another productivity-killer!

Jan 16, 2007

This is far too much fun. And as if that weren’t enough, there are two of them!

Warning: do not have so much fun with this that your productivity is completely totalled. If this occurs, neither myself nor the site owner are responsible.

And don’t use this right after lunch, or a long meeting. You may put yourself into a near-trance state.

Permalink

...or the intarweb shall rise up and smite you.

Jan 08, 2007

How long have you been using the Internet? Five years? Six? Seven? Ten? Fifteen?

Right, then. How long have you had a website of your own? A few weeks? A few months? A year? Two? Five? Nine?

Okay. For those of you who have been using the Internet and have had your own website for some time, do you know how things work? That is, do you know how to create the designs on your own? Do you know how to make sure that you’re only using your own images?

Do you know what hotlinking is, and why it’s considered bad form unless specifically invited?

Read on, then, to learn of a little old-school revenge on several thousand ignorant internet users. WARNING: while this particular link is safe for work or children, be very cautious about following on any links from that page. In particular, do not click on the link that follows the warning (provided by the author), “Once you click, you cannot unclick.”.

No one should be eating or drinking while reading this account, due to choking / keyboard / screen-splatter hazards.

Permalink

Are the cube walls also made out of black tape?

Jan 06, 2007

Hello? Excuse me? By the time people have stopped living with their parents and gone out and gotten jobs, they often have something resembling an idea of how to organize their stuff.

So what the hell is this?

Black tape is being stuck on civil servants’ desks to show them where to put their keyboard and pens — at a cost of £7million. The Public and Commercial Services Union’s Kevin McHugh said: “This office has been open for 60 years and people have managed to find their pens and staplers without consultants helping them in that time.” The black-tape project is part of the nationwide Lean programme, run by consultants Unipart, which has already required staff to move their personal belongings off desks.

Um. Ri-i-ight. Screw “clutter management”, how about “time management”? People can have desks covered with stuff and things; but if they manage their time well and get the work done, who cares if they bury their desk under every single tchotchke they can find? Conversely, a pristine desk might simply mean that the person in question is either a minimalist decorator or is planning on leaving the company (or something entirely different). It doesn’t guarantee that they’ll complete tasks accurately or efficiently. In a slightly related note, this weekend I am going shopping. I am going to put enough stuff in the current cube that whatzitsface may think again before moving me. (Also, it will give the area a definite “in use” look which may make people less prone to playing a quick round of Grand Theft Cube.)

Permalink