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Do These Icons Make Sense?

February 20th, 2009

Working on some new icons for tellmetwin.com, I am at a loss for what to use for love and hate.

The idea is that when you rate something the lowest or highest a little overlay appears in the upper right.

Do the below work? Which ones are better? Anything besides a heart or a skull to signify love and hate?

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Or maybe something like the X in do not recommend again?

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Amazing Video On Failure of Ma.gnolia

February 17th, 2009

Really great video on the technical problems that caused ma.gnolia to go down, and continue to be down. I learned some great lessons from working at John Wiley, i think we actually had to restore from tape a few times.

tellmetwin.com is backed up automatically to two different countries and yes the backups are tested.

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http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/02/16/what-really-happened-at-magnolia-and-lessons-learned/

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Iceland Has Highest Acceptance of Evolution

February 16th, 2009

Yes!

Iceland Darwin

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Should Iceland Adopt The Pound?

February 16th, 2009

Well i have no idea but this guy does and he makes some interesting points:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/02/15/iceland_should_adopt_sterling_not_the_euro

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Halfway through the big rewrite

February 16th, 2009

So far I’m loving developing in a normal php framework. The constant swearing associated with drupal has died down, and im left with just the swearing associated with IE6. Woo!

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