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Jargon Buster
We all tend to use words and phrases we are familiar with, it makes communication so much easier and in a technical context, it makes it more reliable too. Instead of talking round a subject in vague terms and perhaps misunderstanding, it helps to use some jargon you both understand. I try very hard to avoid jargon outside of the technical setting, but it is sometimes hard to remember what terms normal people know! Sometimes it is impossible not to use the very word that has a precise meaning, so to help you I have compiled a short dictionary of some of the more common terms you might come across.
- Mark Griffin's blog
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Flash Adverts: The Latest Plague
Full motion Flash adverts are the new plague on the Internet. Back in the early days, when animated gifs were first invented, web developers who wanted to be cutting-edge plastered them all over their sites. The phenomenon became known as "dancing baloney" and was widely loathed by the purists. And with good reason. They were unbelievably distracting, and, in the days of access with those early modems, they slowed down the loading of each web page. It was lose-lose.
