If you really want to annoy a graphic designer who wants to design a UI prototype for an application to show you what he's on about (and also to test that whole code behind UI design for WPF idea they took from ASP.NET) then give them a copy of Expression Blend. You'll be amused for hours as they moan about how slow it is, how it doesn't seem to be even close to be being finished and how awful an advert for what you can do with WPF that black UI is. There's something about missing out so much of...

So, CAPTCHA is annoying but necessary in these days of spam, but why not use it. Ben Maurer posted something interesting he's found on the subject: Exploring: reCAPTCHA: A new way to fight spam What a brilliant idea: You use the entry to also OCR a word at the same time in order to digitise books. The best part is that it only puts out real people slightly, but also puts the automated spam bots to work on something useful! What a genius idea.

It's all the XBox 360's fault. You start launching retro games and people think they're cool again. Sure, you get Doom and Jetpac, but you then have to put up with Paperboy. That wasn't even fun the first time round! Well the latest on the long list of games is Q*Bert on the PS3. I was never a real big fan in the day, but it was enjoyable enough so I set the download going and dived in for some retro goodness. The looks pass fine, the gameplay passes better than I remember it but if there's a problem with...

Would it be a dumb idea to have a button on a UI that let the user supply their own translations for it and then upload it to a common server? Well it works for Wikis... Somebody must have done that already.