http://www.thefreedictionary.com/biweekly Happening every two weeks. Happening twice a week; semiweekly. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biweekly occurring twice a week occurring every two weeks fortnightly http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/biweekly Occurring once every two weeks. Occurring twice a week Here is the bottom line: The prefix bi- applies to the week rather than to the events that occur, therefore giving the sense of “every two…
I am a pretty avid reader. I used to read on the train when I used public transportation every day. These days, I drive 10 minutes to work, so my reading has been fewer minutes per day. For this reason, it REALLY sucks when a book is bad. Specifically, I only read non-fiction, either design/psychology…
Microsoft has had a pretty rough time the last few years. Steve Jobs innovated like a mad genius and came up with the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. That’s alot of ground to cover and Microsoft has not been able to keep up. At best, they tread water. However, Steve Jobs is gone and I…
A huge portion of User Interface design is finding the right levels of abstractions. What I mean by this is that you have to decide what the information hierarchy is and how they map to mental models. Example System : WordPress Blog (Good)You have posts and pages. Those are objects within the system. Within those, you…
Iconography is a specialized talent. Working in such small confines making images that convey specific meanings. Previously, I have heavily endorsed using IconExperience. Over 2,500 icons in lots of sizes, with and without shadows. It’s a cornucopia of excellent images. They are very easy to mashup to create a nearly infinite set. Recently, I have…
One day, if I have a hundred million dollars, I am going to fund the following initiative: The Do Your Job Proposition From now on, all California propositions, initiatives and ballot measures will have an additional choice besides Yes and No called “I Don’t Know”. If the measure does not receive 51% of the popular…
I have been trying lately to speed up the performance of my blog. Steps so far: Remove about 25 plugins I really didn’t need. Remove plugins from my wife’s and brother’s blogs Switch to the TwentyTwelve theme Still, I was getting CPU throttling from my host. It still wasn’t fast enough. I didn’t install a…
It’s such a pain to move to a new host. DNS changes. Import/Export of WordPress. Debugging. New security. Redirects. Let’s face it, it’s a huge hassle, so I need to have exhausted all my options. Despite the fact that I am pissed off at BlueHost for not having a faster server for me, I am…
I have been feeling for quite some that the performance of my blog was dragging. I just implemented a new plugin to do caching and it seems to help a little. However, the internal tool, where I type and do publishing is slow as well. Obviously, I want things to be speedy. For the last…
Take a look at this fascinating 1 minute video. How can a little monkey like that have such an immediate and intense reaction to something that is unfair? We clearly have a fairness gene. Something in our brains that reacts strongly to this sort of situation. The little monkey is the 99%! How many different…
It’s like you are on camera 24/7. When do you have time to make a mistake? When can you daze off or pick your nose? When can you say to someone “You are an asshole”? and then come back later and say you are sorry? It’s a non-stop, never-make-a-mistake business. It’s amazing that people want…
Go to any computer program you use on a daily or weekly basis. Find the online help. Next, find an article in the middle, something fairly obscure, but something you are aware of. (Not an edge case, but not a “overview” either). Read it. No seriously, slow down and read every word. I know you…
One feature I like about LinkedIn is how you can write a recommendation for someone. Basically, you sing their praises and it ends up on their profile. I have 36 recommendations for me and 58 recommendations I have written for others. Writing recommendations for excellent people makes me feel good and I think does a…
In product design, I love nothing more than being able to conquer two goals with one feature. I just did this the other day and feel very proud of myself. Almost smug. The feature was targeted towards customers, but I saw how it could be twisted, just slightly and it would become the greatest feature…