For a long time now, we have been using TargetProcess at work as our work planning/bug tracking tool. At first I liked it OK. Over time I liked it less and less. At some point, we hit rock bottom and I said, “Let’s try and set this up again, but this time, let’s read the…
I had signed up for the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview. I wasn’t sure how quickly it would work, if at all. Lo and Behold, I got my invitation pretty quickly. It actually took me a while to realize it because they sent me the invitation to Hotmail. Who the heck uses Hotmail these days? …
I have been using font substitution script Cufon for a little while now. It works really well. It uses <canvas> to render fonts rather than flash, which is what sIFR does. Although, sIFR works well, I found it a little hard to set up. I don’t have Flash so creating the SWF files seemed difficult.…
What’s a Purple Cow? Seth Godin wrote a book about them. A purple cow is something remarkable. People like these kinds of things and they will talk about them and buy them. What is Email Marketing? I am talking about legitimate emails from marketing folks in real companies that allow you to unsubscribe. Not spam…
I can’t help myself. I love typography. It makes such a difference. I tried a bunch of fonts from http://www.dafont.com/. They are organized nicely and have liberal usage policies. The only suggestion I would make to them is that they should use cufon or sIfr and allow me to type in my own sentence and…
Apparently, NASA has lost the original high quality footage of the 1969 moon landing. Apparently, in the 80’s we sent new spy satellites into space that were recording a ton of new footage. NASA was overwhelmed by the amount of tape required to store the footage, so they ERASED THE MOON LANDING to put some…
So it seems Mollom was acting weird for some people. So I switched to NoSpamNX. It doesn’t use JavaScript at all. Hopefully, it will not screw up. There are so many options for this feature. I just want it to work 100% without any failure and invisibly to the audience. Is that so hard?
I use DSLExtreme for my internet access at home. I have been a customer for many years. Not too expensive, good up-time. I have been meaning to call them for 2 years. The reason for the call was that I think I was over-paying. I was getting 3 megabits download speed, but I was paying…
I blogged about this 4 years ago, but I actually used the quote today in a conversation. Portion of a poem by Robert Burns, To a Louse. Robert Burns has written some good stuff. O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free…
Chrome is the browser I reach for most of the time. Here is the good/bad/beautiful. Firs tthe good. Speed. It’s much faster than the other browsers in launching and loading. Everything jusgt seems faster in Chrome. Tabs. The details of the tabs are genius. The nice smooth lines with a gentle slope is much more…
The long tail should be familiar to everyone. Every project I have every worked on was like this. Here is the breakdown: 1. The Logos. Greek word which is defined as “Meaning”. We all have experienced the boss who comes in and says, “I want you to design a widget system.” So in essence, they…
Well, the modal has changed. The program still works though, so my downgrade punishment is deferred again. I wonder if it will keep working? Of course, none of the links go anywhere. I am anxious for the next build of Office 2010. My beta clock is ticking.
Interesting. This morning, I was fully expecting my Office 2010 to stop working. Inexplicably, it shows me the exact same activation window as yesterday. It says, “1 day left to activate”. Maybe Microsoft put a little bug in their own activation wizard to stop it from imploding? Who knows? However, the good news is that…
Possibly the defining characteristic of life as we know it. Change is the only constant. Whether it is pain or joy, it won’t last forever. I watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button tonight. Medium movie, I liked it. However, the line, “Nothing Lasts” really stuck with me. My kids are growing older so quickly…