Archive for October 2007
links for 2007-10-05
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on “enterprise 2.0″ (gah!) and libertarians vs. suits. more useful than it sounds.(tags: intranet)
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“The difference is that the overruns on a physical construction project are bounded. You never get to the point where you have to hammer in a nail and discover that the nail will take an estimated six months of research and development, with a high level
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that reminds me of something I need to check on….(tags: accessibility politics)
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I’m going to try the trick of checking one from each agency every 4 months.
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I’m just glad I managed to avoid the replacement of the HP3000 at Pierce. Ugh, just saying that gives me the willies.
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no kidding. hm.
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I’m curious, but it’s PHP5 only, and I don’t have that at work yet. Of course, if I could ever get a round tuit, then maybe I could try it out for the mythical “media diet” application.(tags: php)
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“You’re going to have to create internal structures that will help people grow into positions; that’s really where the real opportunity is going to be.” — that’s how it’s been with every job I’ve ever had.(tags: society)
links for 2007-10-04
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includes a lovely downloadable flier.(tags: usability)
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what a bizarre idea. I am SO not comfortable with the idea of using JS (on someone else’s site!) to create a layout.
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trippy stuff. the map of the US is well worth a look.
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focus, don’t multitask, eat well, sleep well, exercise, and change your “automatic thoughts” — he calls it changing the stories you tell yourself, but the other way of putting it works for me. (go cognitive behavioral therapy!)
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Hmmm. I think I probably have some negatives in one of my boxes, but this is more to the point for Mom/Elizabeth or Aunt Susie, both of whom have many years (decades?!) worth of negatives.(tags: photography personal)
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interesting. looks like they’re Trabian’s first rollout of their “give with us” project.(tags: nonprofit creditunion)
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I suck at estimating. There, I said it.
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I totally don’t have the mental focus to go through this now. Later.
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cute. I wonder how it compares, minute-wise, to the TMo 411 charge.
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for HTML email.
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I’m not seeing that shift myself, but this has given me food for thought.(tags: interwebs creditunion)
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among other things, he mentions that he’d love it if his bank used OpenID!
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Great pic of the Getty Center by Elizabeth — who got sent by her work, lucky girl!
mood-affecting
for my own reference
links for 2007-10-03
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although I’ve been quite surprised at how many times ordinary users ASK for drop-down menus. (multi-level, OTOH, is pretty much always a disaster.)
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A very simple way to explain it.(tags: accessibility)
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Includes a downloadable flier with images & descriptions!(tags: usability psychology)
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wow that’s beautiful. I’m still bummed that (a) the solar eclipse wasn’t visible here and (b) I forgot to get up for the last lunar eclipse.
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“9/11 has made us stupid. […] We can’t afford to keep being this stupid!”(tags: politics)
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“This was a sorrow of details, of minor rhythms and assumptions that I hadn’t really been aware of until, suddenly, they were disrupted or unmet.” — a year later and I still find myself expecting Maddy to be there.
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need to contact for ENA stuff.
links for 2007-10-02
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I suppose I should be doing this.
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“And one study of Olympia, Wash., found that parking and driveways occupied twice as much land as the buildings that they served.” via OlyBlog. (Don’t get me started about strip-mall parking.)
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hell and/or damn. this is so very frustrating. (branch maps.)
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people really are begging for this.
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no comment, except to say that it looks like my old job will be filled about one YEAR after I left.
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Apparently, a hot bath “makes the blood vessels in your extremities dilate and help cool the body.” Fascinating. Profiler suggestions: maybe look at getting a better bed, and try to relax more before sleep. Imagine that.
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It’s boggling how important writing is to web design. In a good way (for me) though.
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If only IT departments generally got the same kind of customer service training that tellers & call center people do…or conversely, the web application usability training that I’ve put myself through informally.
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I would hazard a guess that HTC made my MDA. (mmmm, TLAs….)(tags: mda)
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aha! yipee!(tags: mda)
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“Elizabeth changed medications for her depression, and her life began to brighten” — a fascinating story on many levels.
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(tags: creditunion)
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I should probably read this. It’s just not working in my brain right now.
annoying
In which the author bets against the northwest weather and loses, again. At least this time it doesn’t involve getting soaked to the skin.
