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Rhymes with Kevin

In Unfiled on 1 January 2007 tagged Unfiled with 2 comments

“2007 rhymes with kevin wheee!” -from Glenda It’s gonna be a good year I guess.

Restart Now? OK, How About Now?

In Design Discourse on 14 July 2005 tagged Unfiled, usability, windows with 4 comments

What genius at Microsoft decided it would be a good idea, after an automated Windows Update, to not only give you a “we’re going to restart your computer in 5 mins if you don’t stop us” dialog but have it come up every 15 mins or so with no recourse to stop it?!?! So if [...]

Fark

In Unfiled on 1 June 2005 tagged Unfiled with 1 comment

My screen is cracked. Not the screen itself but the layer over it where I write. It still works fine but still sucks

Bashing Bugs

In Unfiled on 24 May 2005 tagged Unfiled with Comments Off

If you read OK/C, you’ll see the announcement there. Today, we’re launching a new comic strip, drawn, written and owned by Hans Bjordahl aka Mr. Cranky. The comic is not about HCI, it’s not about tech support and it’s not about programmers. It’s about life in that environment, working with those people – managing them, [...]

The Musical Baton

In Unfiled on 20 May 2005 tagged Unfiled with Comments Off

Very well then. Always a sucker for memes, Molly H. passed me a virtual musical baton and I can only comply. ###Music Volume Around 25Gb. ###Last CD Bought I think OKGo and The Donnas simultaneously. No wait. I just bought a box set of four Initial D soundtracks and yes, they’re legit. ###Song Playing Right [...]

Running on Vapour

In Unfiled on 21 April 2005 tagged Unfiled with 2 comments

Today, I finished working at around 3pm or 1500. I checked my time tracker and realized I was working on billable stuff for 13hrs of that time.

Got Coffee?

In Unfiled on 31 March 2005 tagged Unfiled with Comments Off

It’s 8:30am in San Fran and I’m checking through Yahoo 360. On my homepage, the random tip reads: The coffee link goes to Yahoo Maps and a list of coffee places in SF. Neat. I have a lot of thoughts on Yahoo 360 but haven’t had time to put them together in my head. It’s [...]

Background Processing

In Unfiled on 28 March 2005 tagged Unfiled with 1 comment

Reading Jeff Veen’s entry about how he designs, I thought I’d talk about something Kathryn and I sometimes discuss. Allow me to open with an anecdote. It’s Friday afternoon and the weekly OK/Cancel strip is done but there’s no accompanying article. I believe the week this happened was, coincidentally, about dating a user experience professional. [...]

On Being Known

In Unfiled on 22 March 2005 tagged Unfiled with 1 comment

In collaboration with Tom, I draw a web comic. Just like thousands of others. It’s about interaction design, human-computer interaction (HCI), usability, things like that. Things that most people don’t care about or have even heard of. That’s right, I draw a comic about that. So it should come as no surprise that in a [...]

Bond, James Bond

In Unfiled on 18 March 2005 tagged Unfiled with 4 comments

What is the most frequently used line in movies? I knew the answer to this but then proceeded to forget (just when I was trying to impress by pulling it out of my too-old memory core). I consider myself proficient in my Google-fu but found it took me a little longer than I expected to [...]