- Riot "Grrrl" is not a genre of music. #
- retweeting @jpong No words. This is awesome: http://tinyurl.com/68zlvk #
- There are like 105 views on this video. I feel like an early adopter. #
- http://tinyurl.com/5eszkj I kinda want to go, even though I have almost nothing to do with the topic. #
- @jasonsantamaria I enjoy Cobalt with ProFont #
- Last.fm.app finally gets the JK approval. Very stable. 1.5 is awesome. #
- 90% of all Korean kids go on to college. 100% of them have paid Blizzard. http://rense.com/general81/dur.htm #
- I love the internet. I have no reason for it at this time. #
- People who don’t answer multiple questions on IM should be hurt. I asked two questions, I expect two answers. #
- I let this little girl pass while I was at the Drive-Thru, but instead of getting a thank you wave, I get a peace sign and face. Cute. #
- @joshkim This is why you need to finish that feed reader. Because articles like http://is.gd/dRY will never ever get read without google. #
Two. Two big issues that I see rarely, but often enough to write a post about it.
Previous/Next vs Older/Newer
NEVER EVER use “Previous”/”Next” when paginating. EVER.
The vast majority of the use case of the Internet: Googling information. What happens when you pop into a blog with hive page and is faced with two options: “Previous” and “Next”. Does “Next” correspond to chronologically later or earlier posts?
A better pair of words that should be used here are “Older” and “Newer”. Since blogs are almost always, by default, ordered chronologically, it makes a whole lot of sense to use this pair of words.
The place where I feel like there is actually a little leeway is the positioning of “Older” and “Next”. I’m on the side (pun? hardly) that puts “Older” on the left, as if the person reading is flipping through the book from page one to the last written page. In this case, the blog becomes a sort of a never-ending story.
But regardless, as long as it saves me the trouble of guessing, hitting the wrong one, swearing inside, hitting back, and then getting to the right page, I’ll be a happier person inside.
Not having pagination at all (Yes, Blogger, I’m looking at you)
What is wrong with you?
I really do need to test this out, but I seriously hope that Blogger doesn’t default to not having any sort of Previous/Next or Older/Newer links.
Let’s go through an example: http://buzz.blogger.com/
Go all the way to the bottom. Where are the pagination links? Who knows. Scroll back up. WOW The months are in backwards order than I expected (I mean, the posts that are just left of it go chronologically newer to older… why should the archives link follow that logic, too?).
The real fun starts when you want to go to the post made just before the oldest story on the main page. You have to remember what month when the story was posted (Feb 2008, while I write this), click on that month’s archive (grumble again how the month order is backwards), scroll down until you see that oldest post on the main page, then go down one more to start continuing the stream of blog posts.
Horrible.
This isn’t just for Blogger, though. I’m sure there are other blogs or other web applications that get this wrong. Please fix it.
- I just realized again how much I freaking twitter, looking at my daily Twitter update. #
- I kinda want to resurrect my blog project. But of course, this is the nerdy extreme OCD engineer in me. Need more of the relaxed social guy. #
- K2 RC6 and WP2.5.1 Updated. #
- Brian Chung. The man itself. http://snipurl.com/27hgt #
- ASUS 900s. Looks pretty nice. http://tinyurl.com/67edfp #
- Florence Foster Jenkins. Wow. http://listverse.s3.amazonaws.com/music/jenkins.mp3 #
- Fon paid me 8 bucks. I am so happy. #
- http://tinyurl.com/3hb2lq WELL DONE. #
- Rock Band has been ordered from Amazon. For the Wii. I’ll write on the logic behind this later. #
- At my lunch: Why the heck is there bacon in my chalupa? Or… is it not bacon? #
- Bacon Club Chalupa. Ah HA! http://www.tacobell.com/bigbox/ #
- From this point on, wherever I would have typed "intarwebz", I will use the shorthand "webz". Saves me 5 keystrokes each time. #
- Okay, I might have to give it another chance and read every single one of these. TO THE MAX. http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000013.html #
- Having one heck of a time focusing at work. Taking a walk. #
- This type of rain reminds of something sappy and saccharine. #
- Oh, what the heck. A dove just flew by as the rain stopped. What is this, a John Woo movie? #
- I can see it now: two protagonists fight just outside the NCSA building, and the battle ends, the rain lets up and a white dove flies by. #
- @jpong HAHAHAH. Did you run out the 140? Hilarious. #
- GTA IV did $500 million. Amazing. But what’s the breakdown across consoles? #
- @jpong From the Internetz, here it is: Washing pasta with cold water will wash away the starch, and so it’ll prevent sauce from sticking. GG #
- @alexargo Don’t forget the Coronas. Which reminds me… keke. #
- @jpong I agree. However, this was *ghetto* spaghetti. If you were expecting a 9/10, *you* FAIL. *FIN*. #
- Jerry Yang, make up your mind. http://tinyurl.com/6jujeo #
- College Humor is doing an all-nighter. Check it out. It’s hilarious. http://www.collegehumor.com/tag:chtv #
- Now I can tell people I’ve had an Ultrasound. Weeee. #
- Bi-Colbert Dance Off http://tinyurl.com/5m6maf #
- Now you can download Starcraft digitally. http://tinyurl.com/6m3dw4,c:7 #
- Who wants a free month of GameFly? I think I have 5 to give out. #
- Scratch that, I might have less… because it turns out, all I have to do is give people the URL. #
- @BobSevenEleven Probably. But I never had a problem with cancelling. I like it a lot, and they even gave me a discount on another month. #
- @BobSevenEleven And yeah, I’m not getting anything out of this. Just a friendly gesture. #
- Trying out iDemocracy. #
- And now, I have a jailbroken phone. First time since 1.1.2, I believe. #
- @alexargo It’s the first thing I installed, hehe. #
- Twinkle. I’m impressed. But what’s the deal with these squares? No i18n? What a shame. http://snipurl.com/27f9x #
- Why the heck do safari updates require restarts these days? http://snipurl.com/27g9t #
- I am very afraid of the gas prices right now. I don’t want to look. #
- @jpong It’s gonna be sunny today. Sad. More coffee. #
- Another weekend gone by. Wow. Time’s flying. #
- YHOO is down 20% pre-market. Finally, I was wondering when this would happen. #
- Reasons why I will not use Twhirl: No shortcut keys (that I can figure out), Much more complicated UI than Twitterific (AIR vs Desktop, si). #
- I love hitting the 140 char max on Twitter. It’s like playing a word game, except I like it. Also, the limit makes it fit in 2 lines on fb. #
- @alexargo That kinda makes sense. Does AIR use some different port numbers? #
- Dave Brubeck is the man. Jazz piano is too delicious. #
- @BobSevenEleven What are you doing? Oh holy crap, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! #
- @BobSevenEleven Argo *made* you set this up? Yeah, I saw you followed me the other day, and I was surprised. #
- @jpong Before, one of the nerdiest things to do were to AIM while talking to a person. Now it’s Twittering while talking on AIM. Oy. #
- @alexargo Maybe I’ll make a quesadiluh for lunch. #
- Lunch hour flies by wayyy to fast. #
- XMPP is the future. There, I finally wrote it down somewhere. Time to go start doing something with it. #
- New Purchase: Wacom Tablet. What is wrong with me… #
- One option with Rock Band: Just wait until June 22nd. Get game and drums. Be kinda happy #
- Another option with Rock Band: Buy the 360. Get Rock Band. Get GTA IV. There goes the stimulus package money. #
- @fritzy I’ve had a couple of project ideas before based on XMPP, but never really finished. It might be Rails. It might not. #
- @fritzy And hello, fritzy! Looks like you’re doing some PHP/XMPP…? Cool. #
- Dear US Treasury. Thanks for the $600. Now go check your accounts, twitterati. #
- Eh, maybe it’s just me. #
- http://tinyurl.com/6xeec2 ME. #
- @al3x Hilarious. So very very deliciously hilarious. Hmm…. salmon… #