January 2009
21 posts
I’ve been reading Alan Cooper’s The Inmates are Running the Asylum for HFID. Interestingly, he points out the digital divide rather frequently [without naming it as such], but seems to believe that it should not exist. Furthermore, based on his numerous complaints, he also believes that people should not be made to learn how to use computers, but that computer software should be...
Jan 28th
“Iceland’s Government Collapses”. Yikes.
Jan 27th
Fun fact
Zippers have brands. Apparently, most zippers are made by YKK [they have “YKK” printed on them] - my jacket has a YKK zipper and the fastener to hook my snow gloves together is also YKK. Crazy!
Jan 25th
The positive attributes of the Bolt bus are somewhat mitigated by motion sickness.
Jan 23rd
Jan 22nd
Mel really does drop the best links
OMG Portal gun This is ridiculous.
Jan 22nd
If you’re in the Boston area, you should totally check this out: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1502742/
Jan 20th
I don't even know what this means
OD: -4.50 -0.50 x030 OS: -4.50 -0.75 x160
Jan 18th
Reblogging some excellent snarky videos. Check out the original post here.
Jan 17th
The Sesame Street word of the day is “angry”. Hmm.
Jan 16th
Am I winning or losing?
Pet foods I have eaten: dog food (dry) cat food (dry) rodent/rabbit yogurt treats (surprisingly flavorless; I don’t understand why they get so worked up) People foods my cats have eaten: blueberry muffins tortilla chips Cheetos cheese (many, many kinds) snickerdoodles
Jan 16th
:(
I had a bunch of awesome hummingbird pictures, but I wasn’t paying attention, and the ISO was set to like 1600, so now they’re super grainy and gross.
Jan 14th
The Halloween Tree is an excellent book. It’s also a super fast read - I got to pretend I was Mel when I finished it in less than an hour.
Jan 12th
Buying video games and losing the CD-keys really sucks.
Jan 12th
Jan 11th
LOL Neurotoxins?
We went to an exotic fish store to look for freshwater puffer fish, and one of the tanks was labeled “Blue Ringed Octopus”. This seems like a bad plan…
Jan 11th
Jan 8th
Now I'm halfway through The Art of Innovation
It was so nice out today that I wanted to be outside, but couldn’t figure out how to keep myself entertained, since my computer has crappy battery life and a screen that’s hard to read in sunlight. Then I remembered the books exist.
Jan 6th
Turns out, validating your HTML makes your site work more consistently. Who would have guessed?
Jan 5th
Compatibility and Web Standards are fun!
Finally have cross-browser compatibility [mostly] working. Internet Explorer is such a pain to work with, but now Firefox is doing weird rendering of my title bar. Now I’m going to download Opera to test it there, and eventually get someone with a Mac to check Safari for me.
Jan 5th
I don’t think lawnmowers are supposed to grow grass.
Jan 4th