December 2009
7 posts
“Being a board director of a listed company in 2010 will never have been less...”
– Lucy Kellaway writing for the Economist.
The enormous sense of entitlement in that sentence makes me dry heave. Heaven forbid being a director means actual work and not ripping off the shareholders.
Something to keep in mind about your competition →
The importance of design →
Just found this really interesting. This is some of the kind of stuff I want to learn about how to do.
Dumb-ass record companies →
This really baffles me. If, 5 years ago, the record companies had put up a site where you could do a search and watch every single video in their archives, maybe they could have made some real money. I don’t know how much streaming video costs, and I’m sure it’s not cheap, but are you telling me that the combination of ads on the page while the video is playing (hell, let’s...
“In response, Comcast and other operators are busy creating so-called...”
– Brian Stelter - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/business/media/04hulu.html
- A perfect example of why I don’t trust Comcast owning NBC.
Somewhat major Espresso App bug
Apparently Macrabbit’s Espresso app has a bug where it crashes every time you try to put php into an html attribute. Unfortunately, when you’re working with a Wordpress theme you’re doing that ALL THE TIME! Not a recipe for a good day.
Update - Apparently you can work around it by writing the php somewhere else then cutting and pasting it into the appropriate spot. Thanks to...