Women! Am I right? yes, I am right. Typically, I don’t find this sort of thing amusing, but this one really made me laugh. It made me think of Katie. She has so much crap around the house that I look at and think, “We don’t need this! Seriously, we don’t need this.” So I…
I turned 36 yesterday. The day started off rough with a huge mistake I made and some scrambling to fix it. It kept going with details and a million things to deal with. I got a bunch done. Some good product management candidates coming in next week. Then we went to dinner at BenniHanna‘s in…
I can’t get this commercial out of my head. Make it stop.
Mozilla just posted a Release Candidate of Firefox 3. I had installed a beta a while back but things have changed much. The browser doesn’t crash on me anymore, but more importantly, everything that uses JavaScript launches twice as fast. Gmail is really zippy. So is Marketo. EXT apps are wiked fast. I am very…
UPDATED HERE As previously posted 6 months ago, I had been working on a solid design for HTML emails that would work in every client. The design of that email worked pretty well. However, since then, I kept getting asked to do the impossible. Rounded corners, curved strokes and shadows. As mentioned, Outlook 2007 doesn’t…
Go to http://maps.google.com and search for your house. Then click “Show search options” to the right of the search box. Notice the box “Restrict Results to:” Change the box to “Real Estate” Click search again Notice the left hand side shows real estate listings. Click one of the listings. Click on the detail bubble on…
I love detective work, figuring out how things work. Here is a quick sample. Rey Bango (proud new papa) posted about a plugin called ShareThis. The reason he posted it was because they are using jQuery on their website. So I click around and see that it has a WordPress Plugin. Easy to install, (click…
Katie and I just finished watching Dan In Real Life. We liked the movie very much. It was a little formulaic, but the direction, acting and writing were good enough to overcome the formula. The story had a big family on a yearly reunion as the backdrop. It reminded me alot of my own family…
Rachel Luxemburg was kind enough to forward me this report from Jakob Nielsen on how people read on the web. I have always known that people do not read a web page the way they do a book or email. On the web, people will skim. They will pass whole blocks of text. Their eyes…
The boys and I attended the Markers Faire last weekend. We first went in the morning and then had to leave for little league practice. Then we biked back without Matthew to spend time before Katie had to go to the Opera. Both times, we forgot the camera. Ugh! How lame are we. Here are…
The Office is a funny show. Started in the UK, it has since been redone for a US audience. I have been watching both on Netflix through the web. There is a fascinating difference. In the UK BBC version, the main character David Brent (Ricky Gervais) is a total dick. There is nothing likable about…
UX is not UI. 50% of the letters are the same, but they are very different. Looking around the web their are some great resources/tutorials on the subject of User Experience. Montparnas has a wonderful UX summary which I highly recommend. It has oodles of good info. This slideshow by Garrett Dimon has some wonderful…
Slideshare is a service that has been around for a while. I haven’t really used it much, but I had been asked to publish the Stanford presentation there, so I gave it a fresh look. First the positives. This is a useful service. It makes sense to share presentations and to convert them to flash…
I am not thrilled with the Jets overall performance this weekend. The first pick, Vernon Gholston, DE made me happy. Their are some questions about him, but he seems very talented. However, it was was all lame after that. The next pick they traded up 6 spots to get a guy that would have been…