A truck was coming down the hill near Molly Stone’s. The brakes failed. The truck couldn’t slow down. It careened helplessly into the Molly Stones parking lot. All of my family has been in that exact spot a hundred times. We walk across the parking lot with just a quick…
Sometimes I feel like GMail is trying to make a bad experience on purpose. Google has a counter at the bottom of the screen that tracks how much space you are using. Since I use Picasa and have thousands of photos, I purchased the annual storage upgrade. They give me…
I have not had alot of time to think lately. Most of my “ideas” are focused on Marketo. However, my AjaxExperience presentation is due and I have not “nailed it”. I went to sleep worrying about it. I work up at 4am this morning. Mostly asleep, but this idea kept…
Wow, Tiny Fey did a great job mimicking Sarah Palin. The accent and the facial expressions were spot on. I thought Amy Poehler wasn’t nearly as good. I loved the line that accused Sarah Palin of wearing “Tiny Fey glasses”. I didn’t think about that before, but maybe Sarah Palin…
Powerpoint is a great tool for communicating, if you use it right. Most people don’t do it right. Here are a few (but not all) guidelines: Do not make people READ. It is very hard to read and listen at the same time. Do this excercise: Read and article from…
Ever since NetFlix almost removed sub-accounts, I have been thinking about how they could accomplish the same thing without the hassle of separate accounts. I know Bill Scott is kicking ass for them, but I thought I would throw this idea over the wall. The idea is to specify family…
Saw Butterfly effect. Really freaked me out. Think about the turning points in your life. How could they have gone different? Would it have been better? or Worse? Thinking about taxes. I like my taxes being spent on some things and not others. For instance, I like my taxes being…
ALERT: This is the coolest thing I have seen in MONTHS! If you have Picasa, you have to try this. It’s called Name Tagging. You enable it. Mine took about an hour or so to crawl through all the photos. When it was done, I realized that it put these…
I decided to try using Chrome for a specific set of sites. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the list is “Sites owned by Google”. This includes Gmail, Picasa, Reader, Docs, Calendar, etc. I have already noticed an improvement in performance. Specifically, Picasa is MUCH faster. I don’t know what…
Google just released a new browser called Chrome. I am using it now to write this post. When I go to WhatIsMyUserAgent.com I get the following: Your User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13 In Safari, when I go to the same site…
jQuery relaunched their website. See site here. The comments on the post are fascinating. The re-design immediately erupted a firestorm of “Yay!” and “Yuck!” proclamations. Issues such as how professional (or not) it looked or how cool (or not) it looked dominated the threads. It shows how similar people using…
Every few months, I find the time to update the cross-client html template. (Link removed) Again, I used the returnPath tool to help me get a handle on best practices. I improved it over the previous one in a few ways. Here is a quick list of what I know:…
I don’t often look at Mac software. However, today I was helping someone try to find the equivelent of Snagit for the Mac. Here is what we found: First is Snagit. Yes, they are considering a mac version. Other info here. This would be great. The latest release of Snagit…
Nice collection of quotes about Design. Here is mine: Design is Decisions. I love to point out all the decisions around us that create our environment to my kids. We are surrounded by decisions of people. Some made with good thinking and some with faulty thinking. Design isn’t good or…