June 29, 2007
As we all know there’s some dreadful websites out there. Today I found the worst website I’ve ever seen and as much as I generally dislike ‘moan-blogs’ I couldn’t resist highlighting this site.
June 22, 2007
My U.S. bank recently made me change my password when I logged in. They even made me use “special characters” in the passwords, like # ” % &, to make sure it was secure. Annoying, but no big deal. I’ll put it with it. I understand why they’re trying to do this.
Next, though, they crossed the line from to annoying to downright hit-the-screen-in-frustration.
June 19, 2007
Trying to make sense of query strings in your Google analytics installation can be a headache even for the most savvy GA users. Here we explain what you can do in your GA configuration to make life easier.
If you use query strings on your website (be it for passing session ids or controlling content) your GA reports will contain something like this:
Not very helpful is it! Unless you know exactly what each parameter corresponds to it it difficult to make sense of your data.
June 17, 2007
You gotta hand it to O2 — when they run a big promotional campaign, it’s hard to miss. And with their most recent one, they’ve pressed a sensitive button: the work/life balance. Their TV ads worked — they got me thinking. Apparently the Irish work the longest in Europe, but, the ads ask, do we work the smartest? The sales pitch is surprisingly subtle, you don’t know exactly what they’re selling. But what it comes down to is they say that their mobile office products help restore a healthy work/life balance. And they give a vanity URL to learn more. So how does their web promo match up to their intriguing TV ads?
June 15, 2007
I went to transfer money to the lovely Paula (my wife) this morning via AIB Internet Banking. I wanted to transfer 50 euro. A simple transaction, or so it should be.
June 11, 2007
Spotted over on mulley.net, a link to a very worthy cause, The Red Door Autism Conference.
June 8, 2007
Imagine you are designing a new bank. It is being built in a modern dockside development where thousands of people will work, shop and eat every day. You have a blank wall at the side of the building where you could fit three, possibly four, ATMs. The question is: how many ATMs do you install?
