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"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.  This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."  more …

I'm undecided over whether I think CSS preprocessors are a good thing or not. I'd been resisting until quite recently and found that I quite enjoyed Sass, but not for the reasons I thought I might. more …

So far this year I've coughed up quite a bit of money for services that I reluctantly admit I am helpless without. One chunk of cash went to my accountant and another to a plumber. Not interesting, but true. I don't do analogue  These were expensive reminders that not everything in my life can be controlled by plugging in a keyboard and hacking up some code. It seems we are not - as it would appear in the pages of Wired magazine - living in a Cyberpunk novel. more …

I can't blog about every pukesome tabloid news article that comes my way, but this is sort of related to online security and stuff, so that's my excuse. Sky News published a story yesterday about a man who got his stolen camera back by way of a vigilante sting operation. The trap he laid involved impersonating a woman online without her permission and arming himself with hammer.  more …

After writing that  I don't want any change in 2013  I thought I'd better post some examples of why I don't believe that society as a whole is keeping pace with the Web. I was too busy eating last week to notice the non-news surrounding the Zuckerberg Christmas, but catching up with it this week, I find the media responses quite telling of how society is adapting to the Zuckerverse. more …

Another year, another arbitrary division of time around which to discuss what's been hot , what's going to get hotter and what technology is going to be next. You know what I'd like to see this year? Nothing. more …

Remember the Browser Wars? I remember making whole Netscape versions of pages as well as IE versions - Yeh, we did that. Those days are behind us, but I wonder what techniques we'll laugh at in another ten years. more …

Earlier this year I accidentally blocked search engines from my blog. Want to see what that looks like? more …

In part 1 I showed how to add a swipe effect to a scrolling area using only the new CSS properties in IE10. I also added some JavaScript to create the same effect in other touch-supported browsers like iOS. more …

I just finished working on the Lovie Awards Winners Gallery. As a result of the Microsoft partnership I learned quite a bit about touchscreen support in IE10. I've put together a few demos here to show what we ended up doing and highlight some of the gotchas. more …