My bosses recently purchased an Ikea couch. I won’t go into all the details, but here is the salient point: The directions did not have a single word. All pictures. I liked it very much. It was international. I found the directions clear and concise. Good job. Interesting, there is an ikeaFans.com website. It says…
Microsoft just released a new upgrade to their Maps site. (I still think its a horrible name, maps.microsoft.com would be smarter) Anyway, it’s a good upgrade. The bird’s eye view is so much better than anything Google Maps has to offer. The Google street view is interesting, but in reality, I use the bird’s eye…
There is an old story that I like, but I can’t find it on the web. It goes something like this: This was back in the days of large servers with big vacuum tubes. A major server stopped working, causing panic in a large corporation. All work ground to a halt. The engineers could not…
I added in more detail to my Email Template. It turns out that the box model on Microsoft Outlook 2007 is different than the box model in IE6 and 7. Specifically, when calculating the width of a TD cell, it can’t deal with padding on the same item. So I had to separate the padding…
Although it was a rocky beginning, (see resolution) I have really fallen in love with EXT, specifically the 2.0 release (currently in beta.) The quality of the interaction design is top-notch. Jack Slocum has the extremely rare combination of talents including programming, visual design, interaction design and CSS. He is able to take the modern…
If Al Gore wins the Nobel prize, he should run for president. I am convinced that he would win. The country feels guilty about the 2000 election. We know Gore won, but we let it slide and let Bush take the prize. In hindsight, that was a really shitty decision. The Supreme Court is now…
The Carolina Panthers brought in Vinny Testaverde to back up David Carr. Jake Delhomme had his season cut short by injury and David Carr is banged up too. This means Vinny might see some MORE playing time. He is now 43 years old! About Vinny: The 6-foot-5 Testaverde certainly brings experience. He ranks sixth in…
As a follow up to the Filespots review, someone at Freshlogic asked me to review their competitor called Folders. Although I feel that my expertise should be PAID for, I still can’t help myself. Someone asking me to write a review of a cool new Web 2.0 app? What can I do? Maybe I should…
I filled out this MSNBC Candidates/Issues Matrix. Looking carefully at the positions of all the candidates, I rated them all. As I expected, Hillary Clinton is not as progressive as I would like her to be. Mike Gravel has some good positions, but he seems “a few kb short of a meg” to me. The…
Recently, I have been getting alot of comments fall into the Akismet net. I am experimenting with a Captcha plugin for WordPress. A captcha forces the user to type in a word before they can comment. Spambots can not read the words, so only human beings can make it work. The one I am trying…
I think Opera has a chance to do something really awesome. Assuming that the technology was possible. They should release a browser with Opera, IE6, IE7, FF and Webkit rendering engines built in. They should enable a <META> tag to indicate on the page WHICH rendering engine to use. Default would be Opera, of course. …
I was looking at Technorati just now. Some really neat features. It has a way to claim your blog on it. So this post does that. I need to link to my Technorati Profile and it should work. I will review the UX of Technorati later when I get a little experience with it.
It appears that Amazon is widely testing a new homepage. I took some screenshots of the old and the new. You can get the new page by deleting your cookies and refreshing the page. Looks like it might even be a 50/50 split. Additionally, they have information about the redesign here. At first, I was…
I have officially given up on the 2007 Jets season. I want them to lose very single game. I do not want them to go 8-8. I would like 1-15. We are aiming for the number one draft pick next year. Mostly likely, they should trade that pick down and build up some depth in…