Year: 2004
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Everyone has to read Shirky
And everyone does. His latest: “Situated Software,” from which, a quote: Expectations of longevity, though, are the temporal version of scale — we assume applications should work for long periods in part because it costs so much to create them. Once it’s cheap and easy to throw together an application, though, that rationale weakens. Businesses…
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25 days at a time
Struggline with getting Radio to post my home page for the last week or so. But it is upstreaming the archive, 25 files at a time, every time I publish a new item. Maybe that’s a month per post, which means I need 6 more posts to get to the current day?
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GMail… incredible service or incredible April Fool’s joke?
Google announces GMail via this press release dated April 1. Webmail with 1GB of free storage, plus great search (as you would expect). So… is it real? I’m asking because Simon Willison’s post ranges from excitement about the idea of the service, but then points out that Google has a sense of humor about these…
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Mr. Ed
Jared Spool has a new article at User Interface Engineering, “The Top 3 Priorities of the Talking Horse. It could be that your site (or part of your site) is a talking horse. Is everyone focusing on just “making it work”? There is the partial jab at Jakob Nielsen’s discount usability (although Jakob never uses…
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OmniGraffle and the Visual Vocabulary
For a new project at work, I’m blocking out the different components using Jesse James Garrett’s visual vocabulary. I’d seen this methodology before, but I was more intrigued after seeing the stencil available in OmniGraffle, a Mac OS X diagramming/charting tool (think Visio, for Mac). I’m not a very visual person, but I’m learning more…
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24 hour vacation
One bridge, five miles, and no kids = 24 hours of vacation. Never had to think about the clock, except to make it to our dinner reservation. Now that’s a birthday present to ourselves.
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Output
Michael McDonough’s Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School… let’s skip to #9, shall we? 9. It all comes down to output. No matter how cool your computer rendering is, no matter how brilliant your essay is, no matter how fabulous your whatever is, if you can’t output it, distribute it, and…
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“You have to go to sleep.”
I’m listening to the boy and the girl entertain each other. At 4:55, the hands of the clock were directly opposite each other, so the boy thought it was 6:00am, and launched into his usual “I’m awake, please come get me.” I went down and told him to keep sleeping, it wasn’t yet time. Twenty…
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Happy Birthday, clock (and me)
One year ago, I started clock. And I turned 32. Amazingly enough, as I turned 33, I’m still writing clock. I haven’t posted every day, but this is item 446, so some discipline has prevailed. Enough with the blog-navel-gazing. Lesson for today: be careful what you ask for.
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Quicksilver (the app, not the book)
So I see Simon Willison raving about Quicksilver, and my first thought is “Aha, someone else has read Stephenson’s latest.” But no, Simon is referring to a LaunchBar-like application which is free, and — if the blog hype is to be believed — better!?! I’ve downloaded the application, and I’ll try to use it in…