Mark Norman Francis

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• Content? That's what happens to other people

  Published on September 26, 2011.

  An article in which I sigh heavily about the state of content on the European versions of Yahoo! sites.

• The end of an era

  Published on September 22, 2011.

  In a post with a highly cliché title, I get misty-eyed about having worked with a bunch of great people in my time at Yahoo!

• When optimising CSS makes a real difference

  Published on March 28, 2010.

  Given that I've said optimising CSS is slow and dangerous, why bother with it at all?

• Why optimising CSS is dangerous

  Published on March 27, 2010.

  An automated tool altering the structure and source order of your CSS should fill you with The Fear™. Here's why.

• Even suboptimal CSS optimising is still too slow

  Published on March 19, 2010.

  Well, it is when you've got fourteen thousand properties to sort through

• Suboptimal CSS optimising

  Published on March 14, 2010.

  When optimising CSS, there is the right way and then there's the correct way.

• Growl notifications for system updates

  Published on February 27, 2010.

  I wrote a little shell script wrapper around softwareupdate which pops up a Growl notification when there are new updates available for your computer.

• Removing the deprecated warnings from EC2 tools on Snow Leopard

  Published on October 16, 2009.

• Fairly paranoid backups

  Published on October 12, 2009.

  I like to have my data backed up. I don't like people touching it.

• Cleaning up after Byline

  Published on August 30, 2009.

  A script to perform actions on flagged items in Google Reader.