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Day: March 11, 2010

  • Kicking out my Windows 7 Google traffic

    <rant> Apparently my 15 month old post on Windows 7 BSOD is the #1 ranked post on Google for the search query “blue screen of death windows 7“.  A ridiculous amount of my traffic goes to that page.  Like 30%.  I don’t want this traffic.  The page had like 40 comments.  People kept asking me…

  • The UX of Dealing with Problems

    Woodward and Bernstein and their series on Watergate set the modern lexicon of scandal and how people deal with them. Here is the formula: A problem or suspicious of a problem arises. People look to the source and say, “What is going on?” If the source says, “Nothing, nope, no problem here. Everything is great.”…