Consider the three paths illustrated below. Path A represents perfect software. It takes a long time to build and a long time to debug. However, it is a mature product with zero defects. (Is this a real product??) Anyway, the point is that the user has no issues as he…
Wow, legendary quarterback Brett Farve joins the New York Jets. I am excited and fearful all at the same time. I think the Jets have all of the right ‘talent’ on the field, but will they have the chemistry? Will they stay healthy? A few injuries will tank the whole…
Well, it’s that time of year again where I predict things and get them all wrong. Here we go. Democrat VP Picks. I predict Caroline Kennedy. I think Joe Biden would be solid too. If its Caroline, then Joe will sign on for Secretary of State. Republican VP Picks. Joe…
Beat that.
I rarely login to Feedburner even though I use it for my blog feeds. It’s a good service. I have a very specific critique though about the homepage. Every time I go to their homepage, I look for the button to login. I look all around the page, mostly in…
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was released on August 21, 2001. It attained a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003. Then IE7 was launched in late 2006 and it began a sharp market share decline. I just checked my Google Analytics (as well as some other sources)…
I installed the Twin Helix PNG Fix and tried to tweak up my site for IE6. I got most of the PNG files taken care of, but not all of them. I need to refactor some of the classes to get it all working right. In general, my approach is…
There are several images in this collection of beautiful feminine illustrations that just stopped me in my tracks. To me, the purpose of art is to evoke emotion or thought. This collection has a wealth of it. Two standouts are the one with the girl spinning a hoop/maze and this…
A while back someone had pointed me to World of Solitaire and asked for some UX advice. I tell it like it is, so for good and for bad, I will give my best advice. First, the good stuff. This is a technical marvel. Honestly, this is a ridiculously rich…
Today, I saw a comment on a previous Jets post. Niw wiem co Wy widzicie w tym futbolu ? niech mi ktos to wyjasni ,bo nie bardzo rozumiem.sorry nie znam angielskiego na tyle by poprawnie sie tu na forum wyrazic-pozdrawiam Les At first I thought it might be spam, but…
Miyagi: Now, ready? Daniel: Yeah, I guess so. Miyagi: [sighs] Daniel-san, must talk. Miyagi: Walk on road, hm? Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later *squish* get squish just like grape. Here, karate, same thing. Either you karate do “yes” or karate do “no.”…
For some reason, my internet access fails on Microsoft Vista Business 32-bit edition every time I reboot. The main symptom is that it puts a default gateway of 0.0.0.0 in the settings. Why is it doing this? I don’t think I am infected or anything. It’s happened to another computer…
Lately, I have been thinking about speed as the number one factor for software satisfaction. When a piece of software is fast, it makes the user so much happier than if it is just “powerful”. For example, in the early 90’s I loved XTreeGold. It was wicked fast and could…
Hooray! Someone finally nailed the background-repeat problem for PNG support. I have stopped stretching PNGs in the foreground because of IE intermittant issues. This, however, is a great solution. It’s in Alpha now, so maybe I should wait a bit to make sure it’s baked, but this is GREAT news. …