I just released a new blog called What, Where, Why?, focused specifically on web development, the Internets, and other related geekery.

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You may have heard of two bills that are floating around the US Congress and Senate that go by the common monikers SOPA and PIPA. They're both very bad news and they will affect us all–Americans and otherwise–if they pass.

That is why this blog is blacked out in protest today.

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If you've been following my tweets, you'll know that a few weeks ago PayPal froze my account without notice. This is the business account for my company that accepts payments for Update 2011, the independent mobile conference I'm organizing in Brighton this September as part of the Brighton Digital Festival.

PayPal freezing accounts is nothing new. They do it all the time. And they've done it to other conferences also, including dConstruct, and more recently to Remy's Full Frontal.

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Take your favorite content slider and try this: on a Mac notebook, two-finger scroll. I'll bet my hat (easy to do when you don't wear hats) that the component will go nuts. For one thing, it will most likely be mapping your vertical scroll gesture to a horizontal scroll. I don't know who first decided that was a good idea but I think we can safely agree that it doesn't make any sense. And every content slider out there that I've encountered does this! So much so that I actually thought that you simply couldn't get horizontal scroll information from the "mousewheel".

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After neglecting my Flickr account for several years, I thought I'd upgrade to Pro again and upload the photos that we commissioned from the talented Victoria Dawe from Friday's hugely fun Geek Ninja Battle Night.

So, to upload the 140 or so photos, I downloaded Flickr's desktop uploading app, Flickr Uploadr and dragged my set of photos in. Upon dragging them in, I realized that they were in the wrong order. They were listed in reverse chronological order, which the last taken photo at the top and the first one at the bottom of the window. In the top-left corner of the app, I saw a message telling me that they were "currently ordered by date taken" and that I could drag and drop if I wanted to re-order them.

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