Product Management, WordPress, and some other odd things
I’ve just felt sufficiently exercised to write to my MP, about the UK government charging for information they’ve collected with our (the UK taxpayers) money. For example, I’m doing a location based events search for Arts & Kids. The data underpinning this has been collected by OS and the Royal Mail, using tax payers money, and yet the charity is having to pay for it in order to provide a free service to UK citizens.
Continue reading “The Government double charges us for data”
A list of UK organisations, with the steps needed to get through their infernal touch tone phone menus to speak with a real live human being. Absolutely brilliant.
IE 6 on Windows rejects cookies not sent with compact privacy headers; meaning that some users may not be able to access some areas of your site. The solution is to generate a privacy policy, which this P3P Wizard takes (most of) the pain out of…
Update: This wizard now charges a fee. Thanks for the heads up Dave (below).
We’ve just launched our new ecommerce product, Startershop. As it says on the tin: Startershop is an easy to use, no-nonsense ecommerce solution for just £199 setup, free for the first year, then £10/month thereafter. Continue reading “Startershop is out!”
“A layout NOT based upon screen resolution, NOT forcing a horizontal scrollbar, NOT relying on cookies or a user choice to define a layout. A layout that uses 3 cols, but remains fixed. That is, my column widths never change.”
I’ve reconnected to Last.FM to capture what I’m listening to. You can see the results on the sidebar under “Recent Listening”.
Continue reading “Recent Listening on WordPress”
Hold down F12 for 2 seconds to eject a CD or DVD. Especially useful for those situations where the CD/DVD icon hasn’t appeared on the desktop for some reason.
“A Java package which provides a simple API to allow conversion between OSGB (Ordnance Survey of Great Britain) grid references, UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) references and latitude and longitude.” (More grist for the Arts & Kids events listing.)
“A primer on coordinate system concepts, including full information on GPS and Ordnance Survey coordinate systems.” Useful for converting latitude/longditude into OS co-ordinates (which we’re looking at for an events listing guide for Arts & Kids).
Research into the relevance and importance of source order, skip links and structural labels for screen readers: Screen reader users expect the main navigation to be presented before the information content; source order is not relevant to screen readers.