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Month: August 2007

  • Concentration

    I still feel terrible. Coughing. Can’t breathe. It’s amazing how a little thing like breathing can sap your creative energy. This cough has been nagging me for over a week. I am afraid that I won’t be able to play tennis on Sunday. Katie is starting to cough more now too. I bought this thing…

  • Hybrid Cars

    Articles like this make me sick. It’s saying, the only reason people by hybrids is to say to their neighbor, “See, I am saving the world!”. While this may be true, it still is ugly and it shows the worst in us. And worse still, it shows how corporate America thinks of us. We are…

  • Personal Research Agenda

    Brad Neuberg posted this awesome vision statement on his blog. Well, it’s not really a vision statement, but it felt like it so I will call it that.  It made me sit and think about the big questions that I have in my mind.  I wrote a list of the things that I am working…

  • Pixeur Color Picker

    For about a decade now, I have used TrayColor as a must-have utility to pick colors off the screen and get their HEX for html and css.  It’s tiny, works perfectly, sits in the tray.  It’s few quirks seemed to be minor enough and it was free.  I don’t know who made it.  I used…

  • Horizontal Menus

    This is a great effect for a menu, with lots of easy customization.  It’s called LavaLamp. (jQuery Plugin) I wonder if it could be made into a vertical menu.  I would use it on the top left of this page. Sometimes, I marvel at the creativeness of some people.  This effect isn’t something I could…

  • The UX of Google Calendars

    Katie is the master of our domain.  She maintains the family finances and schedules.  She is the COO, CFO and CEO of the house.  (I am the CTO)  Recently, we have had the need to share our family calendar in a distributed way.  She had been using Outlook Calendars on her laptop, but that didn’t…

  • Family Visit from Hell

    Warning:  This post may make you sick.  First Daniel, Lindy and Molly had a horrible time getting a flight to the west coast.  Then when they finally got on a plane (last one of the night), molly threw up on Daniel’s lap during the landing.  He wasn’t even allowed to get up to clean off…

  • Vista Hyperbolic Error

    I got this error in Vista yesterday. I closed the error, closed my other programs and rebooted. Was it really Catastrophic? Come on. Whoever writes these errors is not thinking. A user doesn’t want to see that. They want to see something friendly. I would have rewritten this error to say, “Something bad happened and…

  • Urge

    The last few days I have been using Microsoft Media Player to listen to music while I work. Specifically, I have been trying their iTunes competitor called Urge. I signed up, but went for the “free” plan. I don’t want to buy music, I just want to listen to the radio for free. Two channels…

  • Uptime Stats – Consumers Unite!

    I really have come to enjoy and appreciate the service SiteUptime. They will ping a site and keep track of whether it displays in a browser. The first site is free with 15 minute checks. For 5 bucks a month you get 3 sites at 5 minute intervals plus other checks. That is an AWESOME…

  • BluePrint CSS

    On Ajaxian, they had this article about BlueprintCSS. It’s a CSS framework to make grids and other useful base components of a webpage. My main concern however is having equal-height columns. It doesn’t seem to have that, on first glance. My second concern is how detailed it is with great commenting. This is a good…

  • The right sprite?

    There are many ways of using a image sprite. Most ways use a background-image that can be moved using CSS. The problem is that this method creates alot of CSS defintitions that are hard to manage. The reason is that Firefox does not support the background-position-x CSS attribute. This really sucks because it means that…

  • Suggestion for MS PowerPoint

    I have been using PowerPoint to do my UX Design at Marketo.  I used to use Visio for this, but I really like the ability of PowerPoint to make quick animations.  I should probably give Visio a try again, but regardless, I have a suggestion for the next version of PowerPoint.  I hope someone over…

  • Da Jets

    Wow, is it preseason already?!?  That off-season just flew on by.  The Jets are primed to win the Superbowl this year.  It’s just one month until the season opener against the hated New England Patriots.  This is a MUST-WIN game.  It’s retarded to think that the very first game is a must-win, but I really…