Obvious Diversion

Very exciting. I’m hoping to upgrade my 1.2 install soon.
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A while ago, I found a site that was clearly my design with a few very minor changes. I was a little startled to be honest. This is obviously not a new problem as it has happened to a number of sites, some of them with a very high profile.
I considered contacting the [...]

The last few days I found that Amazon has been serving me a different UI than on other computers. Click on the screenshots for a larger view.
Old UI:

New UI:

There’s a clear shift here away from category-based navigation and towards search as the primary tool to find products. It would be more interesting if [...]

In coming up with the name for this site, I considered a number of names that were anywhere from barely amusing to simply inane before finally choosing Obvious Diversion (the perfect combination of barely amusing and simply inane).
I ran into this list again today while cleaning out some files and found that although most are [...]

Google Images, a service from the lovely people of Google, allows you to search for images in much the same way you use ‘regular’ Google Search to find text. It’s a simple idea, but it’s implementation doesn’t work well.
How It Does Work
With any of Google’s technologies, we’re left to making easy assumptions and sometimes [...]

I have noticed on occasion some sites choosing their palette by finding a base color and deriving two or more additional colors from it that are roughly the same color in a lighter or darker shade. I often find these sites pleasant to look at but difficult to use over time. Sure, all [...]

I have a proposal, a rough one, that I would like to share with the WordPress community in the hopes that it will do the following:

solve the on-going debate about the default WordPress template
help grow a development and design community around WordPress
act as a revenue source to bring some much deserved funding to the WordPress [...]

I have a simple request: stop using the WordPress calendar on your site. (Other blog software is included here.) At first glance, it looks like a worthwhile piece to keep around, but in truth it’s worth is extremely limited. Let’s take a look at what it does do and then decide for [...]

Someone over at the Wordpress forums asked me how I made the little image browser on my site. (Check out the + - < > on the top right of the screen to see what I mean.) So, here it is for anyone to use. It’s pretty simple.
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