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People are crazy and times are strange

I’m not perfect, which you know already, but I like to remind everyone before I make comments about something I don’t like.
I spend a lot of time thinking about user interfaces, and how people use tools, and the ways that applications and processes can be enhanced to make a more pleasing (and efficient) user experience. [...]

24 Hour Do-a-holic

Like plenty of other people my age, I tend to spend most of my awake hours working on…work.
This work is most often for my employer, but also for myself. And because I do similar things in both areas, the line is sort of blurred. And that’s the way I like it, because I [...]

Return of the Written Word

If you wait around long enough almost everything becomes mainstream. Sure, the X-Files was a cult show for the first couple of years, but then it became a worldwide phenomenon. And do you remember in the late 80’s and early 90’s when rolling up your shirt sleeves was cool? Well then the [...]

University Design

First, let me offer the standard disclaimer. This clearly isn’t a design site, and I’m not claiming to know enough about design to offer an educated opinion. I’m just tossing out a few thoughts, and you can either agree that they are valid points, or just ignore them and go back to thinking [...]

IM wars

Yahoo! claims to have started blocking third party IM services from accessing their chat network this week. Again. The difference this time is that they have pledged to continue changing protocols, etc. as services like Trillian find new ways to connect.
Oh, and Yahoo! says this is necessary to stop IM spammers from taking [...]

Gmail & me

I lucked out tonight and managed to score a coveted GMail invite.
In case you’ve been living in a cave for the past few months, GMail is the new free webmail service from Google that changed the rules by offering 1GB in storage space.
The invites are hard to come by. The service is [...]

Google friction

I signed up for the GMail beta program a few weeks ago. I don’t really need another free webmail service, but it doesn’t hurt to give things a look-see.
I currently use two different Yahoo! accounts to filter the things I sign up for, and the usual spam. It seems that Yahoo! has been [...]

All flash

I normally get desktop images from pixelgirl but I didn’t see anything fresh this morning, so I dug around a little on google and found another desktop site.
I don’t have a problem with Flash. The problem with this site is that by using Flash in the way that they have, trying to find a [...]

Blog design showcase

Many of the site designs on this list are unbelievably good. This is the kind of link I come across after working hard on a relatively crappy design of my own.
Whatever creativity, layout expertise, or code skills are required to produce many of these sites, I will never possess.
It’s strange, but a few of [...]