Avinash, analytics and web guru, was kind enough to invite me to GooglePlex for lunch. The food was good overall, the variety was outstanding, but it was the energy and the style that was most impressive. I really appreciated the energy of the people and the way everything was arranged. …
A couple of years ago, I was interviewing for an interaction design position as Opsware. At the time, my only interaction design experience was with Hotkoko. They took interaction design super-seriously. Their work products were top-notch with every conceivable detail spelled out. I was thoroughly impressed. The product also looked…
I wanted to gzip the javascript and css files on marketo.com. Again, this technology should be DEFAULT on every web host in the world. I have no idea why they don’t have this turned on. Anyway, after another couple of hours, I found this solution which seemed to work. Specifically,…
This is a major invention. It is a new kind of solar panel that can be printed on anything. Glass windows in your car or office building, roof shingles, parking lots, whatever. The cost per watt of solar is currently $3. This stuff is 30 cents. We need action. We…
The first operating system I remember being aware of was DOS. It came on a stack of 3.5″ floppy disks. Before that, I had computers, but I wasn’t aware of a particular OS. Windows 3.1 was my first OS that I could say had an actual Graphical User Interface (GUI). …
I just couldnt get my head around the new easing naming conventions. (jQuery Plugin) So I made a cheat sheet page. (REMOVED) The naming convention is so techie. I really can’t get my head around them and what they mean. Some of them are so subtle in their differences, I…
Why do I care about PageRank? It’s not like I have, nor desire, any ads. I don’t even have much traffic. Yet, recently when my pageRank went from 4 to 5 in the google toolbar, I got this warm feeling. It makes me wonder if there is a UX nugget…
FINALLY I fixed the comments. Ugh that was hard. I have no idea how I fixed it. I installed some new plugins. Then removed one and it started working. The one I added and then removed was ShiftThis.net | Swift SMTP. It didn’t work at all. I gave it my…
I am starting to think that I should redo my theme from scratch so I can take advantage of the sidebar widgets and also get a design made by me. However, since that is a project I really don’t want to take on right now, I made some minor upgrades.…
First of all, I love these two photos. The look on their faces is priceless. Here is the family on Halloween. Picasa has been doing well for us in the last year. The only drawback has been the lack of “collections”. Collections have recently been added to Flickr. The lack…
We are in the long tail at work. The product is getting close to releasable. The little details start kicking in and take an enormous amount of time and attention. I think the product will be well received, but like most products, the devil is in the details. The heat…
I posted a review to what seemed to be an objective hosting review website. I got an email from the “editor” who talked to me about my experience. It was obvious that I was a real customer and my problems were well documented. It turns out that these hosting review…
My uptime stats have improved greatly with Bluehost. Lunarpages clearly was having uptime issues, at least with the server I was on. The stats are even worse than they appear for Lunarpages. I switched about Sept 23, because it was so bad. Since then, there have only been 2 failed…
Yesterday, our house guest, Jörn, showed me how to change the URLs on WordPress. The old links still work, but now the new links will show up better in other places, like Google Analytics. You can see how the links are useless to tell me what page that was. I…