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2010 Retail Theft Survey Infographic

August 20, 2011August 14, 2016 Christian Watson 2 Comments

We recently created our first infographic, based on the 2010 update to a long-running survey of retail theft in the US. It was surprisingly tricky to create, even though there was not a huge amount of data to present. Read More

New “Deal of the Day” Email Template

January 20, 2011May 29, 2023 Christian Watson 5 Comments

I’ve been working with Florida Flourish on a couple of projects and here’s the outcome of the first one — a new template for our weekly deals email.

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Recover Data from a Damaged Hard Drive Using a Live CD

May 16, 2010September 20, 2020 Christian Watson

Last week my hard drive started looking like it might be on its last legs. The built-in diagnostic tool that comes with my HP computer was returning a “BIOHD-8” error, which suggested that my hard drive was not feeling too healthy.

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New Website Launched: Bike and the Like

April 8, 2010September 20, 2020 Christian Watson

I don’t do much freelance work any more. Mainly because work + family + gaming habit + blog doesn’t leave time for too much else. However, I do have a couple of clients and I recently redesigned the website for one of them — Bike and the Like.

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SmileyCat Website 2009 Uptime Report

January 1, 2010August 9, 2016 Christian Watson

I just got my 2009 yearly uptime report for this website. It was offline for a total of 6 minutes and 3 seconds, which is better than 99.99% uptime!

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Mytheon Website Launch

November 2, 2009August 14, 2016 Christian Watson

If it’s been a little quiet around here lately, it’s because I’ve been busy with, among other things, launching a new website for Mytheon, the next game from True Games Interactive. Read More

New Year; New Job

April 19, 2009August 14, 2016 Christian Watson

In my previous post about the NCsoft West site redesign I mentioned that was my last project with NCsoft. That’s because I’ve moved on to take on the role of running the web team for another MMO publisher, True Games Interactive. Read More

Reflections on a Web Site Redesign

April 12, 2009September 20, 2020 Christian Watson

When I joined NCsoft a little over a year ago, one of the core things I wanted to improve was the main US web site. Well, it took somewhat longer than I had planned, but recently the redesigned site went live.

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Two New Web Site Launches

November 12, 2008September 20, 2020 Christian Watson

The NCsoft web team has been busily working away, and recently launched redesigns for a couple of our game web sites.

The first is for our City of Heroes superhero game (shameless plug: 14-day free trial available).

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Operation Immortality: Your Chance to be Immortal

August 4, 2008September 20, 2020 Christian Watson

On October 12, 2008 NCsoft colleague Richard Garriott is going into space. He will be the 6th private citizen to do so. Richard is the vision behind our science fiction MMORPG Tabula Rasa.

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