Stuart Colville

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My Cousin's photo stream on Flickr

My cousin Dan works for Cinesite as a 2D compositor. When he's not working on special effects Dan takes every opportunity to get out with his Nikon D80. Check Dan's photostream on Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/dan_harrod/] I'm sure you'

security

Encrypt your homedir on your mac without FileVault

I used FileVault [http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/filevault/] for about a month and I found it really degraded the overall experience of using my mac. Basically using filevault caused a huge slowdown in performance. In addition I quickly found the repeated prompting to compact the filevault every time

SXSW

That was SXSWi 2007

SXSW this year was bigger than the last, but talking to people that have been going for several years the fact it is getting bigger isn't stopping it being fun. The main thing I noticed that had changed for this year was that there was the addition of

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SXSWi 07 Notes: WaSP Annual Meeting Takin' it to the street

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Kimberley Blessing - Co-Lead Derek Featherstone - Accessibility Task Force Co-Lead Dori Smith -

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SXSWi 07 Notes: The Growth and Evolution of Microformats

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Frances Berriman Volume Michael Kaply IBM Glenn Jones Creative Dir, Madgex Tantek Çelik

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SXSWi 07 Notes:Ajax Kung Fu Meets Accessibility Feng Shui

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Jeremy Keith Web Developer, Clearleft Ltd Derek Featherstone Prawn Song Records Further ahead Ajax

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SXSWi 07 Notes: Uniting the Holy Trinity of Web Design

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Cameron Adams Web Technologist, The Man in Blue Sally Carson Interaction Designer, Yahoo! Dustin

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SXSWi 07 Notes: Antisocial Networking, Dealing With Online Abuse

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Steven Champeon CTO, hesketh.com Inc Definitions: Spam - unsolicited bulk email. Started out

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SXSWi 07 Notes: Blogging Where Speech Isn't Free

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Blogging where speech isn't free. Jon Lebkowsky Partner, Polycot Consulting LLC Shahed

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SXSWi 07 Notes: Mapping: Where the F#*% Are We Now?

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Daniel Catt Maker, Yahoo! Tom Carden Stamen Design Aaron Cope hackr, Flickr Ian White

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SXSWi 07 Notes: Web Hacks: Good or Evil

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Kent Brewster Technology Evangelist, Yahoo! Sergio Villarreal Pixel Pusher, Slide Inc What's

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SXSWi 07 notes: Grids Are Good and How to Design with Them

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. * Mark Boulton Owner, Mark Boulton Design * Khoi Vinh Design Dir, The New York Times

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SXSWi 07 Notes: The influence of Art in Design

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Dan Rubin Creative Dir, Webgraph Inc Patrick Haney Not a Sausage Anton Peck Web

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SXSWi 07 Notes: Writing Better

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Greg Storey Principal/Creative Dir, Airbag Industries LLC Bronwyn Jones Mktg Comms, Apple Computer

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SXSW07 and the Texas State Capitol

I got into Austin in the early evening of Thursday and pretty much got straight out to enjoy some Cuban food and play some foosball at Buffalo Billiards. We met this great couple Celia and Toby who Brad and I whipped at foosball (they got us back on Sunday night

Web Development

WebDev Toolbar Beta 3 for IE

Back in January Microsoft released a newer version of their web developer toolbar and I've only just noticed it. This beta seems to be a lot nicer than the previous version few more features and so far it seems more stable on IE6. If you haven't

Events

FOWA Notes: How we Turn Virtual Stuff on the Web into Beautiful Things in the Real World - Moo

Richard Moross and Stefan Magdalinksi of Moo [http://www.moo.com/] Richard Moross: Print is Dead The internet, you can't give it to your mum for her birthday... Trad media has died. We're a new kind of printing business. As my Mother once said if you

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FOWA Notes: Netvibes Announcement - Tariq Krim

Time is a strategic choice Attention is a personal choice Out digital life is growing out of control This is why we created netvibes. Introducing: Universal Widget API Write once, it will work anywhere Netvibes Dashboard Google Universal Widget API opensource JS runtime Netvibes UI library for your own widgets

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FOWA Notes: PHP on Hormones (Application Development Using PHP) - Rasmus Lerdorf

Future of? 1993 - Mosaic Working for Brazilian company in Mountain View CA Quit and went back to consulting. Back in 1993 cgi counters. Build CGI in C 1994 the beginnings of PHP A template parser that replaced html comments Basic syntax: ifless + endif I got tired of this syntax.

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FOWA Notes: The Future of Mobile Web Apps - Daniel Appelquist

Vodafone's work in standards. Leader of development of open standards Key player in development of GSM and 3G Proponent of open standards on the web Working to develop a standard for rich mobile UI Do users want the web on their mobiles? .. (show of hands) Yes people do

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FOWA Notes: How and Why We Built Google Docs and Spreadsheets - Jonathan Rochelle

Step 1 any good product Pick a killer cool name Google... ...Docs... ...&... ...Spreadsheets People said it sucks. But At least no-one will be confused. Who Cares? It's actually a start-up acquistion story 20052Web Technologies / XL2Web joins Google. Mar 2006 - Upstartle / writely joins google Jun 2006

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FOWA Notes: The Future of OpenID - Simon Willison

The Future of OpenID - Simon Willison 3 weeks ago there was still a question mark over OPenID, it was a niche proposition. Headlines: AOL supports openid ... Last night on techCrunch It's definitely time to declare openID a winner and the hope for making a single-sign on world

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FOWA Notes: Managing User Interface Design - Khoi Vinh

Managing User Interface Design - Khoi Vinh - NYTimes Blogs at subtraction.com The future, The future's going to be awesome We're going to be living in space colonies Users will change (pic of planet of the apes) What I'm talking about today, Design

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FOWA Notes: The Future of the the Browser - Chris Wilson

The Future of the the Browser Chris Wilson Started in 1993 with NCSA Mosaic Worked on every version of MSIE since version 2.0 What the heck happened in 2001? Little adoption of rich web platform Hard to build rich, sexy apps/content Outlook web access biggest application. Why we

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FOWA Notes: Enabling Next Generation Web Apps In and Beyond the Browser - Mark Anders

Enabling Next Generation Web Apps In and Beyond the Browser Mark Anders - Sr Principal Scientist - Adobe Systems, Inc Started with ASP at Microsoft. I left MS and joined macromedia because of flash. Flash can look like this: Spacialiser - interpretive dance for your pc Or you can have