I had a quest.

My Old Man asked me to find a decent mobile phone for him. He wasn’t after anything fancy — “Just to have the large letters on a display”, he requested.

My Dad doesn’t care about the model and make. His only concern is avoiding troubles he used to have when sending text messages. He is having trouble reading text on the small screen.

To make things harder, my Dad is a tiler. Tilers have enormous fists and fingers. Probably, the largest of all builders. When your hands are like paws, you’re having trouble using a small keyboard.

So I bought him a Nokia. I found a model that has both — large display with large letters and fairly large buttons.

I have two phone numbers.

The phone I use to talk to my parents is a personal one and we have cheap calls, since we’re on the same carrier. When he calls me on my business phone, they charge him much more than they should. But Dad keeps calling me on that phone. I wondered why.

When I gifted the new phone to my father, I added my business phone number, just in case.

This new phone has large letters on the large display and large buttons. The phone also has large icons which you can assign to any contact in the address book. When I added a new phone number, I automatically assigned an icon to it. Since then, my father calls me to that number.

I will have to remove the icons.

Illustration by Marko Kršul

1. users are tagging recipes
2. advertiser reserves a desired set of tags
3. in this case, the company brand “Eva sardine” reserved the following tags: fish, shrimps, main course, sea food, sea, … eva (the name of the company brand)
4. if the recipe is tagged with some of those preselected tags, there is a relevant ad displayed.

Clever, huh? But the most interesting part is the following edge case.

Update: “Eva sardine” is actually a brand, not a company. Spotted and pointed to by lekke.

Got it directly from Malarkey’s referrer logs — Transcending CSS iPod shuffle. BTW, have you Spotted the diffrence?

Blackduke, portfolio of Tin Kadoiæ in its’ 12^th incarnation goes web standards. And now with a blog. Site is developed by Unpljugged.

Don’t miss the finest print and screen projects. The personal fav is Fresh Air (see picture below).

Did you know I bake cakes? No? Neither did I… However, despite your entirely justified skepticism – I’m proud to announce that at the time of this writing everyone who tasted my cherry cake is feeling perfectly normal. Hooray!!

Superfast, superurban, supercool…

Photos of this beast are taken by Mirko Beović at Geneva Auto Show. See the full report.

In the mean time here’s what I’ve found around the streets of London (that’s right – I’m a type addict). Excuse me for the low quality of the images, but the weather was far from perfect.

The latest incarnation of my pet project about Bull Terriers.

Take a look at more beauties of Croatia…

Impressed? I have 4 cards for 4 recepients. Drop me a line with your postal address and I’ll send you one. Unfortunately, we are out of cards, but all your addresses are in queue for the next round!

If you were 63 years old, would you be able to jump like that?
(Picture taken just a few moments after siring a cute black-brindle dam.)

Why I’m telling you this? Because, unfortunately, I had to refuse a special invitation from the organizers (sorry, guys)… (Ed: First, I missed the @media, now it seems I’m going to miss this one, too.)

Nevertheless, if you’re going, don’t forget to pick up your Survival Kit (or better said a ‘Surprise’ Kit) and, of course, say ‘hello’ to NY in my behalf.

The show is held at the Birmingham NEC, so if you’ll be anywhere near, drop me a line and we can drink a beer in a local pub and chat about web development and/or life in general… (speaking of which, feel free to recommend some food & drink places in Birmingham).

On the side note, the British embassy is lifting of visa restrictions on nationals of Croatia after 22 March 2006. And yes, I had to go through all this visa procedure, including paying the application fee (argh!), ‘cause the agreement is still not active. And no, it’s not funny.

Anyway, this will be my first trip to the UK. Unfortunately there will be no time for museums and such, but hell, missus promised someday we are going to visit for the sole tourism purposes.

Reasons why news scrollers are bad:

• They are tacky, and reek of end 90ies web design
• They are annoying attention seekers
• They lure designers into thinking they can define the size of the screen, they don’t, the visitors do, each of them for themselves.
• They lure editors into adding far too much content to the page – hidden is not gone, think of the screen reader and text browser visitors.
• Considering “banner blindness”, they might be useless
• They might cause memory leaks and slow browsing in some browsers on low spec machines
• They might confuse visitors with attention deficits or other disorders.

Reasons why news scrollers are good:

• Clients love them
• That other site has them (you know, that really cool, bleeding edge one, the… what? Bankrupt? Well, it was a cool site though!)

– source

Ran to it this morning, when I was searching for as painless as possible (standards-wise, at least) solution for an information slaughter.

What I like about the DomNews is that there’s a stop function. Every accesibility savvy developer is a star.

Now, if I could just find a way to explain how those Add to Favorites and Make this page my Homepage links shouldn’t go into main navigation area.