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February 2009

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Good design in ten commandments

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It's often difficult to put into words what good design is. I've heard a lot of designers descend into meaningless emotional babble far removed from any original concept.

But Dieter Rams has a really good stab at it.

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Only the geeks will find this funny but...

I've recently started playing with php. I was having trouble trying to work out why my md5() hashed password script wasn't working. All the code was correct, the code to insert the data into the table matched the corresponding code to retrieve it again at login. Then I checked the table structure:

Password char(30) not null,


If I had an ounce of common sense I'd be dangerous.

more number abuse

As further evidence to my claim that as a society we simply don't understand numbers I heard this on the radio:

The cost of living is decreasing as inflation falls to 3%

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