I discovered Five Second Test about 6 months ago. It’s a place where you can get real-person usability feedback on your web page for free.

Wow, these icons are free and pretty:

http://wefunction.com/2008/07/function-free-icon-set/

I recently blogged about a technique for generating charts in your raw SQL. It occurred to me that these are a little bit like SparkLines. So, I’m calling them SQL Sparklines for now!

I was writing a quick query the other day that showed how many people registered on a site over time. I thought that it would be nice to have a graph-like representation of this, so I didn’t actually have to read the numbers.