clip it - clip it good!

Clipmarks is a new little extension thingy for both IE and Firefox that could be useful.

"Clipmarks are for specific pieces of information on web pages. Just like when you read a magazine or newspaper, sometimes you want to highlight or tear out a specific part of the page, when you surf the web sometimes you want to remember specific pieces of content (like an image or a couple of paragraphs). Clipmarks lets you do that. You can give your Clipmark a title and tag it with keywords so you can retrieve it later from any computer connected to the internet.

Clip and save just the stuff you want from any web page.
• Create your personal online collection of clipmarks.
• Tag them with keywords, add your own comments and share them with friends.
• Search the Public Clipmarks to see what's being clipped and who is clipping it."

clever paper bookmark corners

Pretty neat idea - little paper corners that you can print from a template and then slip onto whatever book you are reading. Great for those fussy people that you borrow books from who don't like you folding page corners.

If you like, you can also add a few notes about the page onto the bookmark.

Simple idea, nice solution



Tags: paper corners DIY bookmarks

unnecessary project managers

I'm on a stinker of a project at the moment so am quite enjoying the christmas break, if just to be away from it for a few days. It's not the actual work involved so much, although it's not an easy task. It's the project manager.

See, he's come up with this thing he calls a methodology framework. However there is not much in the way of actual 'methodology'. It's just a very barebones structural document with no detail whatsoever. Apparently the detail is up to us.

When we tell him that there is no method, that it's just a broad outline, he can't seem to see it. Very trying...

Then we have to deal with the 'customer' for whom this framework has been developed. They can see straight away that there is nothing behind it and that it's not what they want. Again, very trying...

Now, if we could get rid of the project manager and deal with the client directly, there would be no problems. We would simply design something to fit in with their requirements. Dealing through the PM, however, is like dragging a ball and chain around.

Anyhoo - tomorrow I will start some reading that I need to catch up on while I have the time off work. I need to finish The Zen of CSS Design, Web Design Workflow that Works, More Eric Meyer on CSS, DHTML Utopia and a few others. I'm a bit of a book junkie I'm afraid and then I see another one I want... I'm waiting for 2 more I just bought of Ebay - Actionscript 2.0 and Javascript Unleashed... so little time!

look who's talking now...

I 'think' I'm pleased to see this new Telstra site up and running, but not sure what others will feel about it. I can see the journalists having a bit of a field day.

I like the simple Web 2.0-ish design, but unfortunately it doesn't validate and has a few accessibility issues but I'm sure they would not take much to fix.

Glad to see Telstra blogging though - something I've wanted to see happen for a while. I do wonder if the individual blogs are going to be just that or propagandised...

I can easily see Sol Trujillo being the driver of this little project, but good on them.

Tags: Telstra Sol Trujillo Blogging Telecommunications Australia Validation Accessibility