Well that’s annoying…one thing Google doesn’t do intelligently is languages. I am logged into my account, they KNOW I speak English as a preferred language, but when I go to my iGoogle [google.com] page on my iPhone whilst I’m in Belgium it insists on displaying everything in Dutch.
That was annoying enough…but now the dashboard is doing the same, even when I visit the page from my laptop.
Google, you KNOW I speak English, stop overriding my account setting for my language with demographic data based on my IP address. When I’m traveling it doesn’t make me fluent in the local language…
*slaps the company on the nose with a rolled up newspaper* Bad Google, bad bad portal!
– Pete. (c) Comment
That’s one of the reasons I love Slashdot – proper way of commenting the things! 
Oh, yeah, about Google Dashboard – yep, it’s quite handy and useful!
Google, Links
Humor, Quotes
- Visibility of System status
- Match between system and the real world
- User control and freedom
- Consistency and Standards
- Error prevention
- Recognition rather then recall
- Flexibility and efficiency of use
- Aesthetic and Minimalistic design
- Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover the errors
- Help and documentation
Main reasons and explanations are in the article from Jakob Nielsen: 10 Heuristics of User Interface.
Links
Design, Tips, user interaction
Nowadays, I was forced to work at the office doing Web Dev using Windows machine. It caused real headaches to setup some of the things from scratch to make in work like on my old Linux machine.
I haven’t thought that vim’ll look so weird from the Windows side, however gVim alternative seemed more adecvate, but the problem got me googling at the point of setting up correct fonts for the themes.
An old fonts vim plugin cause lots of errors, so I had to use SVN to get latest fixes for the Fonts.vim plugin. You can check it in the trunk of the repository; it worked perfectly for me, just copy-paste it to your \plugins\ directory, and play around the font-size.
Links, Linux
Fonts, gvim, LAMP, Tips, Windows