Archive for January 2008
sunday scribblings: miscellaneous
a poem about stuff
links for 2008-01-28
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video & other people’s notes from the thing I went to week before last(tags: drupal)
links for 2008-01-26
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housing in that area must be horrifically expensive. I tried to use my current public transit travel time (40 minutes) and the current value of my house (wild-ass-guess/currency conversion 70K pounds) — it’s not physically possible. had to go to 90 mins
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Yes yes yes yes. Don’t tell anybody, but I’m working on a redesign.
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“His mission was to photograph each of the nation’s 50 state capitol buildings and dispatch a postcard from each city, using postage stamps from a childhood collection.” - a beautiful idea, almost ruined by “the war on the unexpected” (bruce schnier’s p
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a good reminder.(tags: css)
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interesting idea to buy gift cards from the place where doing testing to give to subjects.(tags: usability)
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as usual, Jessamyn has good stuff to say about the junction of technology and libraries. (sometimes I think I want to be Jessamyn when I grow up.)
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damn good questions.(tags: marketing email-newsletter)
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I think some of the techniques here are things I’ve worked on with my therapist.(tags: depression reference)
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“There’s only one space left in the market where IE can still claim that bloated 95%+ market share: corporate intranets.” — Some excellent business analysis. (I’m reading the rest of my IE8 meta-switch backlog.)
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Too many comments here to pick one, or to quote from any of JZ’s text. Frankly, I find the whole thing incredibly dispiriting; deeply disheartening. Like something’s gone horribly awry. Maybe Dylan’s civil war comment (twitter? can’t remember) is exactly
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“The real question here is: Why do you have so many stuffed Lemurs??” - okay, that was what I needed. I get way too emo about this stuff.
links for 2008-01-25
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ooooh. I ::heart:: magnetic whiteboards. (I have 2 at work.)
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“So Bush’s inspiring, prosyletizing Methodist is in fact a silver-tongued horse thief fleeing from a lynch mob.” - heh.
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hm. I fear that this may be far too true in our house.
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for in a doorway
links for 2008-01-24
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“So, bottom line, we’d like to see fewer modes, not more.” - a very thoughtful take from someone who’s had to implement multiple browser modes.
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“Software is 100% detail. Quality is 100% attention to detail. And the detail called X-UA-Compatible should be replaced with something better.” — I’m finding the notes from other browser makers particularly interesting. As designers we have one sort of p
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“I feel like I’ve walked into an episode of the Twilight Zone.” — that’s about it. I don’t understand!!!!!!
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In the comments: “I have no doubt that later versions of ASP.Net will automagically include the necessary meta tag; this will make the perception that the MS platform works better than anything else.” THIS is the thing to fear.
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what a rad idea! I want one, esp. with the owl.
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whoa. I actually got to an empty gmail box. of course, I also figured out that I have a metric ton of stuff to do for the ENA, but that’s to be expected.
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really need to do this.
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good stretch here.
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oh, I would love to turn my pretty little Ranger into an EV.
links for 2008-01-23
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“My personal work envelope is so tiny and fragile it can be erased completely by a cloudy day.” one hesitates to suggest it, but perhaps Joe might consider investing in a light box. (anecdotal: setting up a light on a timer 10 mins ahead of my alarm chang
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“following are a few pointers for getting over the design ledge”
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clear, concise, clever & contextual.(tags: usability)
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trippy. possibly useful soon.(tags: css)
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Also, URLs can be reverse-engineered for 2005 and 2006. (2003 and 2004 are a bit more complicated.) Just reference for a possible future project.
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“I, for one, [welcome our new overlords].” some serious WTF going on here.
