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Welcome to the domain of hatred and evilness happiness and lollipops belonging to me, Cyan, cynic, main propagator for the death of Jeremy Wilken and general evil person who’s very much in love with a neologist. It’s awesome, really.

I write about two main subjects: what's going on in my life (duh, it’s a blog) and web design. I’m regularly chucking out useful stuff, so it is actually worth your time. Promise.

There’s generally a relaxed attitude around here. Stick around, have a cocktail...just don’t touch the candy.

No, really. Don't.

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1. 26th March

   Disappointing Literature and a Little to Taste

   I guess I never really understood the OS wars. Why people would blindly pledge themselves to one company is beyond me, but even paying half one’s attention to some of the comments (read: crap) one can find on technology blogs these days becomes depressing. I must admit switching to Ubuntu was not without its superficial...

2. 30th July

   Oh Ubiquity, How I Hate You

   The Ubiquity extension for Firefox is an experimental attempt to interlink the web through the parsing of language. Its interface is pretty much a command line in which you type what you want to do. And it works. Beautifully. If you’re American. Localize, Localise The extension is rigidly American. I, as a UK citizen, could only look...

3. 29th July

   Theme Release: First Wave for Firefox

   Strata, the default theme for Firefox, kind of…sucks. I’m not just being mean, either. They admit it themselves. Firefox has gone far too long without an update to integrate itself into Windows in the same way that it’s integrated itself into our hearts. In fact, Windows 7 has just gone to RTM—equipment manufacturers are now able...