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Home time posted 13th May 2002

Jakob’s latest rant is his Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability which, while providing useful food for thought, is a desperately transparent plug for his latest book (blast: there’s another plug). Personally I would recommend the Home Page chapter of Steve Krug’s brilliant book “Don’t Make Me Think”.

I’ve just baked some raisin bread in my breadmaker, but forgot to listen for beep indicating the moment to add raisins. I now have some jolly nice cinnamon bread. Think I’ll shut up.

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