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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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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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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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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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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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…

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Lawrence Lee, of Userland and Tomalak’s Realm, did reply to my query about the future of Radio. Thanks, Lawrence. Seems most of the energy, recently, has gone to supporting the infrastructure and easing the start-up for new bloggers… which makes sense given that this is still very much a nascent market. But I’ll have to…

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Installed Mac OS X 10.3.3 last night. So far, so good (knocking on…).

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NPR’s Neal Conan reads listener mail on Talk of the Nation (apparently a Monday task). Today, one reader asked how he could trust anything on the internet. Sreenath Sreenivasan, a Columbia University new media professor and a columnist for the media Web site, Poynter.org, runs through some obvious good ideas (check facts, etc.) and then…

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I’ve been using Radio Userland for my blog for a while. I actually tried it first back in 2000, around when the boy was born… I’m not sure it was even called Radio then. I’ve been publishing this blog for nearly a year, and my year license is about to expire. That event is triggering…

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