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XIAHE - UPDATE NOTE - the latest update I got from travellers in Gansu province about access to Xiahe can be found here. It would also appear that the Chinese authorities have now blocked access to my blog.
Original posting - Tibetan Towns Closed to the Outside World - A Posting for Xiahe and Tongren:
What used [...]

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Technology jumping the faeces species barrier…
The Israeli suburb of Petah Tikvah is using DNA analysis of dog droppings to reward and punish pet owners. Under a six-month trial programme launched this week, the city of Petah Tikvah, a suburb of Tel Aviv, is asking dog owners to take their animal to a municipal veterinarian, who [...]

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Persona Non Grata - In the context of website usability - a term I use to describe users I do not want on a website.
In the course of a web design (or redesign) project, you will often encounter a process by which the design or usability company create personas (or personae).
A persona is a [...]

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A Yellow Pages directory landed on my doorstep yesterday. For the past few years I’ve been sending it and similar directories straight to the recycle bin, but I wonder why they keep coming, like zombies in a horror flick.
There’s the yellow one and the blue one, and I think there’s also a grey-and-red one. I [...]

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The web design space is getting crowded, and it’s getting difficult to tell the good guys from the ones who try to sell you a falafel of sales jargon. Or does it?
It never ceases to amaze me when a company, purporting to design websites, lets its own site look like it was cobbled together by [...]

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Following my piece about Google Chrome making password information visible to users (Oh Sh*t - Google Chrome Doesn’t Really do THAT?!) - I got several messages from people who were more worried about my observation that Firefox does the same.
The problem was that anyone using your PC could view a list of all usernames and [...]

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Your passwords and indiscretions for world+wife to see.
OK - I admit it’s a problem that’s also inherent in Firefox, but Google’s new browser, supposedly built from the ground up, should really NOT do this. It’s absolutely effing bonkers!
What am I on about? Google Chrome allowing users to view ALL their saved passwords for different websites, [...]

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As part of a project I am working on at the moment, I was looking for a usability company to provide me with support, working alongside a design partner. I needed usability design support for navigation components, usability testing for wireframe stages and usability testing for prototypes.
I posted the question on several forums, and I [...]

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