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If you’re unfamiliar with it, CrazyEgg is a cool webmaster tool that allows you to see exactly what your visitors do after landing themselves in your page, providing heatmaps and detailed lists.

While I was browsing the other day, I thought I should check my CrazyEgg reports and see how the changes at the blog frontpage are faring. To my (initial) dismay, CrazyEgg was going under some maintenance at the moment, but check what I stumbled upon:

CrazyEgg is going under maintenance - yay!

This, my friends, is CrazyEgg maintenance page. It’s a mini Flash game where you must drop eggs on advertising people to make them go crazy. Really. Couldn’t get more nifty than that!

Drop eggs and make advertisers crazy

Game over, oh noes!

crazyegg, maintenance, flash, flash game

Remember back when Twitter was da bomb?

When it first started, it had really blown up, since for some weird reason people were all too keen to publish their most private thoughts or actions to this little web 2.0 thingie. Twitter-centered sites kept coming up and everyone was happy tweeting.

Did I jump on the bandwagon? Oh boy, didn’t we all.

After a while though, constantly posting tweets was rapidly becoming a drag. To be frank, I was too busy to goof off with the little bird on my desktop that kept chirping and chirping. It stopped being that much fun.

But sometimes at nights, I missed the goofy thing. You can say what you want, that thing was fun. So I came back to Twitter.

Beware: pompous words ahead…
Now that my Twitter persona has matured, I think I use it more efficiently to keep track of my day. When I’m at home, Twitter helps me not staying idle (except when I’m on WoW) since its constant chirping from friends means one thing: people are doing things and I don’t! Buckle up!

Moreover, Twitter has become a good source of inspiration for blogging and a place where I can outsource all my failed blogging ideas, which turn to tweets. Plus, it has always been a great way of meeting people.

Ain’t that fun?

Do you use Twitter? Did you leave and then come back, like me?

twitter, twitterrific

A bit of semiology today, on TimLahan.com.

I love this portfolio site - its imagery is very direct and personal, making you want to really contact this person for work.

The pencils, brushes and pens in the pocket, in addition to the “under-construction” colour theme really work, since they show that the person in charge of the site is industrious and will get your job done. Plus, the steaming cup of beverage shows that he’s a laid back guy, friendly and open-minded.

timlahan, design, semiology

Back in the days where I had a PC conquering most of my tiny desk (uhm, that is like, 2 days ago), I had to switch between the desk and my bed all the time while using my Macbook.

Mom wants to play some silly exploding balls game in PC - Sugar must transfer to the bed. Sis wants to check out the latest news from the greek blogsphere - whoosh, there goes Sugar to the bed, grabbing pillows, amassing cables and being as grumpy as always.

I had two main itches with that: first, I have to gather all my cables and go, second, the Macbook is too hot for my thighs and didn’t facilitate prolonged use. The first I solved by buying a Logitech cordless mouse and eliminating a cord, leaving only the power cord. The other, I solved by buying myself a (pricey) iLap.

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Let’s face it – software can be a really annoying thing sometimes.

Things like extraneous dialog boxes, “tips of the day”, ambiguous error messages and clippers ticking on your screen happen daily. But sometimes, sometimes, you get a stupid behaviour from a hugely popular application and you want to smash your head on the screen till it bleeds to death – two times.

While at work, I use Microsoft Outlook 2007 for managing company e-mail. I have to say, in terms of memory hogs, this thing is a winner! I cannot possibly imagine why it hangs every time with a very moderately-sized inbox, 2Gb of RAM and a 3Ghz processor, but it does.

After waiting the full 30-40 seconds for it to load, I decide to create a filter for the e-mails received by the new guy that was recently hired. Oh, and another friend that popped in my mind, a common filter for the two, named “New guys”. I enter their e-mail addresses in the appropriate field…

I create a filter for two custom e-mail addresses

Ok, all fine and dandy so far. Till this:

Outlook asks me to go back and replace the delimiters myself. Hmm…

Uhm, excuse me? Why should I, the almighty (and fairly bored) user, HAVE to go back and replace my commas with semicolons? Why? Because the programmers were too lazy to implement some kind of string replace function to do the dirty work?

Ok, help me, am I missing something with this? Is this done on purpose? I may be exaggerating, but this is one of the stupidest things software ever made me do.