Nick Asbury turned company overviews into poetry. Good to see them put to some use at last. For example:

Thanks to Flashblock I don’t waste a lot of time loading pointless Flash animations in my browser. The few times I do enable Flash it’s usually to watch video. With HTML5, though, this too will not be necessary because HTML5 includes a video tag. Rejoice! Adobe, probably not so pleased.

A wedding entrance with a difference. Dancing up the aisle. Be happy.

A double installment for you this week. First this classic p4p manoeuvre.

Paul Graham writes on the Maker/Manager Schedule differences. It’s a good read and very true from my experience. At the start of my professional career I was a Research Scientist (Maker) eventually I was “promoted” to Department Head (Manager). I left the corporate world in 2004 and now write code more or less full time (Maker). Guess which I prefer.

Back in the day (OK, the 90s) there was a thing called VMRL. Great things were predicted for 3D content on the web. Meetings were held at SIGGRAPH. Consortiums were formed. Consumers said “Meh!”.