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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!
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.
links for 2007-10-01
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for our living room, something between 34 and 40 inches would be about right. good to know.
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I can always use more regexp resources. (Dorothea’s tutorial — is it still out there? — has been the most helpful thing so far.)
links for 2007-09-29
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“try to go online and she’ll melt your pc” — right ON.
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Ah, Farrells. (Are they still around?) I think I had every single birthday dinner there up maybe all the way into high school, also the one and only surprise party that I’ve had. (16!)
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I have a bunch of somebody else’s tomatoes at home.
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“The result […] has been telecom’s Bay of Pigs—a project the government wanted to happen but left to underqualified private parties to deliver.” heh. perfect description. They note St. Cloud FL as a success story, too.
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nice roundup.(tags: productivity)
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“begin in an area in which your company is already effectively engaging community”
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I’ve thought a few times about doing that with work (blue to white, BTW) but never quite been bold enough or clever enough to pull it off.
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I finally got around to doing this on a project — a bit of work to wrap my brain around it, but OMG I can’t believe I haven’t done this earlier!(tags: productivity web_dev)
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pretty much the same as what ails poetry: obscurity and insularity.
links for 2007-09-28
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this totally rawks. do this tomorrow!
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“It is simply incorrect to capitalize nouns (or any other words) just because You Consider Them Important” — thank you. yes. absolutely. what he said.
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My brain can’t quite process this today.
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ditto.
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this looks like fun, not that i have time for it.
links for 2007-09-27
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this will come in handy later.
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“it’s the people who aren’t young men who usually want privacy” — THIS is why it’s important to have diversity in web dev, IT, whatever. he goes on to complain about it being a PITA to program, but whatever.
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I really like Jed’s appreciation, particularly the reminder of one of my favorite late L’Engle books. (I loved that 2nd poem when I was a teenager.)
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It’s the “johnny-jump-up”, but fuzzy! (that’s the name we had for Greyson’s big heated mat that he brought back from S. Korea; it’s the closest we could get to the actual name.)
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duuuuuude. I so need this.
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how depressing.(tags: wifi)
links for 2007-09-26
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a tech book, but some useful tidbits, plus an interesting idea from Ian Lloyd in the comments.
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“get one give one” — $400 starting Nov 12. so very tempted.
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something I’ve wanted to figure out for a long time.(tags: photoshoppery)
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no particular need now, but still.(tags: php)
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ugh. security questions can be a PITA. I’d rant, but it’d be about work. 🙂
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Burt’s Bees lip shimmer is the only makeup I wear regularly; I swear by their lip balm and honey lotion. And yes, I can find them at Fred Meyer.
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“having critical-thinking skills is way more important than whether you […] write your own compiler” or like I always told mom, at least I know how to write a good English sentence. it’s a skill that comes in shockingly handy.
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“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.” via Molly H. worth remembering.
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The accompanying graph reminds me of this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/epersonae/241008948/ but with a hook at the end.
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so very silly.(tags: creditunion funny)
links for 2007-09-25
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including “don’t underestimate integration” aka the stealth project! (also, ignore the comments. a lot of bloviating.)
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hey, maybe mom could make one! 😉
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Like Ralph sez: “Best. Talk Like a Pirate. Post. Ever.”
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I hate to say it, but one of the things that worked really well about sharing an office with Don is that I liked listening to music…and he was hard of hearing. 😉(tags: personal)
links for 2007-09-22
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I do really like steak….
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hmmmmm. can I get this working for Timberland Regional?
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::sigh:: not that I’m planning on switching NOW, but the information comes in handy more often than I’d like.(tags: web_dev)
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yeah. definitely. (UPS Class of ’96.)
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no comment.(tags: blogosphere work)
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OMG I so totally want one.