July 2010
4 posts
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“I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.”
– Bill Murray on Ghostbusters 3, Get Low, Ron Howard, Kung Fu Hustle: Celebrities: GQ
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May 2010
1 post
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April 2010
1 post
Court Says Bush Illegally Wiretapped Two Americans... →
Boom. Judge Walker calls it like it is. Illegal wiretapping of at least two Americans in 2004.
March 2010
10 posts
Dropbox for ease of mind
I use a lot of sync service (SugarSync, Backblaze, Dropbox, MobileMe, Spanning Sync, and a few others). Of these, Dropbox requires the least mental maintenance. It’s closest neighbors in my pantheon of sync services are SugarSync and Mobile Me’s I Drive are the closest equivalents. All three allow you to keep files synchronized across multiple computers, as well as access them on the...
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52 Weeks of UX: Why UX is really Marketing →
If you ask any User Experience Professional what the principles of their profession are, one of the first principles you’ll hear is “Know Your Users”. This makes sense: if we are to create great experiences for users then we must know something about them. You’ll also find this phrase if you…
The phrase “know your users” certainly does apply equally to marketers and UX...
Optimization
I just spent several hours on a Friday night decluttering my computer. And not fun decluttering like moving pictures around and deleting old downloads. No, this was fixing permissions, removing MacPorts, installing Homebrew, tidying my dotfiles. Hard core nerding. And I feel great. After the hundredth permissions issue in the middle of mundane tasks, it’s tempting to flatten a machine just...
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“I’m doing this because I like accountability and transparency, and I believe in...”
– Expect sparklines.
Edward Tufte, who has been appointed by President Obama to “help track and explain $787 billion in recovery stimulus funds” as part of the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel.
Tufe is being nonchalant, but this is great news. Not only for design-nerds but the general public...
Jekyll
Jekyll, the static site generator written in ruby, is awesome. I just converted a site from plain html to generated html in about 30 minutes (ok, small site), and look forward to a lot less hassle when making updates.
February 2010
7 posts
Looking for a basketball
Katherine’s making a basketball bag for a friend, and it turns out we have no ball. Does anybody out there have one they’d be willing to share?
In fact, does anyone want to shoot some hoops this weekend, period?
Shellfish and Andouille Gumbo with Shrimp,... →
Valentine’s dinner. Turned out well.
January 2010
2 posts
November 2009
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October 2009
2 posts
Boing Boing Redesign
Apparently boing boing has undergone another redesign. A few quick thoughts:
The header.
The content boxes alternate red and black, which is nice for consistency, but look at the bottom right corner of each thumbnail. Four categories, two colors. Not terrible, but not intuitive.
A post
Individual posts are attractively presented. Note the emphasis on spreading content via twitter, facebook...
September 2009
8 posts
Managing My Exocortex
I am stupid.
But that’s a good thing. Being stupid means being selective.
I encounter more information every day than I could possibly remember or process if I tried to deal with it all serially, so I don’t try. Some things I think about as I encounter them, and the rest get filed for later consideration.
I used to use del.icio.us for my filing, but bookmarking is heavy — it...
“A recent report has concluded that the London’s surveillance cameras have...”
– Schneier on Security: On London’s Surveillance Cameras
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud... →
It’s cool to read about a company or group finding a problem and solving it, but it’s even cooler when that group shares their solution with others. For free. Open source hardware is a growing area of interest, and it’s particularly interesting in the area of high cost, typically centralized systems like SANs.
August 2009
12 posts
July 2009
2 posts
