20090331 Spain finally enters the 21st century

After a long and exhausting time researching DSL offers, we decided to go ahead and order a DSL connection for the family home in Spain, in order to replace the old Modem BL/\STER 56k connection with something a little more decent. That was past Saturday, and I was really fearing something in the order of [...]

20090310 Easyjet: the most senior friendly airline ever!

I was booking some flights when I was faced with this drop down list for selecting the date of issue of the passport: I wonder how a passport issued in 1850 will look like. I think it won’t be possible to read it in nowadays electronic readers. It will need manual inspection (carefully, so that [...]

20080514 Common GUI design mistake, fixed in Ubuntu

He ought to be happy now!

20080312 Lightbox is ruining my user experience

A few online shops thought: When the user clicks over the thumbnail, we’ll open the larger image in a new layer over the content, so that we don’t need pop ups. I like to arrange my windows in a certain manner, so if a new one appears unexpectedly, it distracts me. Also, pop ups have [...]

20071127 Let us mind our own business

Found this comment in a weblog: i was minding my own business one day then suddenly this thing popped up asking me to debug using microsoft script editor. what is debug? why is it happening? when i press ok, it stopped and said that something is null and not an object. leaving me no choice [...]