Month: February 2004

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I’m a casual user of Omni Outliner. I never found Radio Userland’s outliner to my liking. But I do like the organization imposed by outlines, so I found my way [via Scripting.com] to this oh-so-in-depth survey of outliner user interfaces. I need to sleep more than I need to read this right now, but I admired (as I’ve said before) focused obsession. It doesn’t hurt to put sentences like this near the top of the very long essay.

Good user interface details are like fresh air and bad ones are like a minor toothache you haven’t quite noticed yet.

We all like breathing fresh air, don’t we?

“…if nothing else, the Internet is a fearsomely effective way to lose time.” Rupert Godwin of ZDNet UK, on a WiFi-enabled train trip of over 4 hours. [via Jeff Carlson (.thought)]

Chaos here for the Super Bowl, with 8 kids running/crawling/sitting around, none older than 3-1/2 years old. So I guess it’s understandable that even with TiVo, I didn’t watch the game very closely. And the ads were disappointing… very few worthy of watching or a rewind. The Janet Jackson disrobing, however, did garner a few gasps, and repeats. Lots of debate over whether it was planned or not. I can’t imagine that it was, but what was he trying to do?