The Future As Seen By Me In 2010
Well looky here, things one has scanned in eh. (ignore the photo, that's some guy that made some accounting software, not sure what became of him ;) MIKE RIVERSDALE is fuming. The expensive headphones he bought in Sydney three weeks ago have just died. His first reaction is not to randomly spill expletives into his coffee, but to use his iPhone to vent his frustration to his Twitter con- tacts, under the moniker Miramar Mike. "I will also put, 'What should I do?' It's a conversation. I'm reaching out to the people following me." The council predicts hand-held digital devices such as smartphones will rule the world in 2040. They already rule the life of Mr Riversdale, whose company WaveAdept helps businesses adapt - their computing sys- tems to allow staff to work from anywhere - and with anyone. In order of fre- equency, he uses his iPhone to tweet (1136 followers; 8363 tweets since joining), e-mail, make phone calls and use online services, such as checki
Well strictly speaking I guess it's more representative to say that it's a 516 byte page which pulls down a 219 kilobyte image. (But I imagine you were fully aware of that.)
ReplyDeleteIf they're like me and run a Google Alerts notifier on blog mentions of 'Fairydown', maybe they'll see your post and fix it (or at least give it an ALT tag), but I wouldn't count on it.
[Sigh] I preferred the old Fairydown.
You think that's bad? Check out Memo's website http://www.memo-ny.com/ which someone at 37signals hailed as "one of the best design agency sites I've seen in a long time".
ReplyDelete@izogi - true about the actual size, I s'pose it's one of the smallest home pages going. Hmm, don't hold out much hope of them having a Google Alert set-up ... but I could be pleasantly surprised.
ReplyDelete@anthony ... heh, even better - no spurious 'style' tags used this time, straight HTML code. At least they have an email address to use and it's linked to clicking on the image ... I s'pose ;~)
I s'pose it's all about using the web as YOU want and stuff the readers - the opposite of "Whoever pays for your information, owns it"
Goodness me... ew. How the hell does that heppen???
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