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Modern Warfare 2: The party system, matchmaking and finding servers

Since November 2009 I’ve been playing Modern Warfare 2 with a bunch of online friends and while the game is not without its problems, I have absolutely fallen in love with its party and matchmaking system. It’s great to be able to just hook up with a bunch of friends and not have to concern [...]

Annoyance of the year: overriding copy/paste functionality using JavaScript

I got a bit annoyed with NoScript last week due to the continous white-listing while randomly surfing the web, so I reluctingly decided to pick the dangerous Allow Scripts Globally option. However, this has introduced me to an annoyance far greater and that is: websites overriding copy/paste functionalty using JavaScript.
Yes, this is actually possible and [...]

Usability disaster: Videos from CNN

Usability disaster: Videos from CNN

Apart from the fact that CNN’s video site just isn’t very interesting (for now I won’t go into reasons why), it also has a few minor issues that combined make for a genuine usability disaster.
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Problem #1: When a video is done playing, all player functionality is disabled and after a few seconds the player automatically [...]

Due dates in Remember the Milk

I’ve decided I want to get more effective and start settings goals and then follow through on realizing them. No more messing about! One of the steps includes getting more organized and start managing my tasks.
To make it more comfortable to create tasks I’ve started using the GNOME Do plugin for Remember the Milk (an [...]

The little things

It’s pretty nifty how in summary view WordPress will (sometimes?) take the first image encountered and use it as a thumbnail and even automatically crops it.

TODO:

I have a post where I had added an image and later removed it, Wordpress still uses this image as a thumbnail (click on one of the associated tags to [...]

Modes and remembering state

It’s quite cool how WordPress remembers what mode (Visual versus HTML) you were previously in and the size of the editor when writing a blog post .
TODO:

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