July 2010
11 posts
“Republians should start talking about what they would do….Not about Obama...”
– Jack Welch
On Apple's Marketing Abilities
Guy: Hey, is that thar one of them iPhones wid' defective antennas?
Me: Sure is.
Guy: Golly, I gotta get me one of them.
“The man or woman snoozing in a chair with a magazine or book is a person who was...”
– William Zinsser in his book, On Writing Well.
“Every time I cry at a movie I imagine Josh Walsh ordering a pomegranate mango...”
– Joe Fiorini - http://twitter.com/joefiorini/status/17674823138
The use of tiny towels
My gym supplies us with itty bitty towels to wrap ourselves in from locker to shower. I am not itty bitty in any sense of the word. Some members saunter proudly sans-towel through the locker room. I’m considerably more bashful.
As a designer, this bugs me. My gym should recognize that a 28” towel doesn’t wrap around a 40” waist.
Why tiny towels? It saves money....
June 2010
6 posts
“The experience of using Microsoft Sharepoint is just like deciding to build a...”
– Jared Spool
I'm Comic Sans, A**hole →
I am a sans serif Superman and my only kryptonite is pretentious buzzkills like you.
May 2010
3 posts
Facebook Privacy Issues Spark Internal... →
The fact that anyone would post a picture of them drunk, passed out on the floor of a dorm room, covered in cheese-whiz is amazing to me. You wouldn’t post your credit card number to your facebook page, yet some people are sharing information which can be even more damaging to their future.
Zuckerburg clearly wants people to be more public. Fine, but if you offer privacy settings, enforce...
April 2010
6 posts
SSL Renewal
Sales: If you renew your certificate for 5 years I can give you a 15% discount.
Me: No thanks, just 1 year is good.
Sales: How about 3 years, I could do the same discount?
Me: No thanks, just 1 year is good.
Sales: Ok, 1 year is $29.99.
Me: You can't give me 15% off of this?
Sales: Ok, sure sir. That will be $24.99.
“You cannot not communicate. Every behaviour is a kind of communication. Because...”
– Paul Watzlawick’s First Axiom of Communication
“Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.”
– Alan Cooper, About Face
WatchAn interview of some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture capitalists by TechCrunch’s founder Michael Arrington.
Not surprisingly, there was little mention of the word “revenue” or even “profit.” Yet, they kept dropping the big “V” word… Valuation.
Valuation without accounting for profit is rather silly, if you ask me.
5 Stages of Accepting an Apple Product →
March 2010
8 posts
“Edward Tufte has been appointed by the Obama administration to oversee the way...”
– Jonathan Penn
“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can...”
– Sir Winston Churchill
“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the...”
– Niccolo Machiavelli
“The effectiveness of a research report is inversely proportionate to the...”
– Wilkens’ Law
5 Browsers and the Modes of Transportation They... →
“Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the...”
– Andrew Carnegie
February 2010
5 posts
Yamaha Recalling Pianos
Yamaha has recalled 20,000 pianos due to a problem with the pedal sticking, causing pianists to play faster than they normally would, resulting in a dangerous number of accidentals.
The sticky pedal also makes it harder for pianists to come to a full stop at the end of a piece, making it extremely risky for audiences.
Appreciating and Perceiving Beauty
A man played six Bach pieces on a violin for 45 minutes in the Washington DC Metro Station on a cold January morning. During the time he played, approximately two thousand people passed through the station. Of those, only six people stopped and listened, and then only for a very short while. The greatest levels of enthusiasm were displayed by young children, several of whom tugged on their...
The Microsofting of Apple →
This guy doesn’t get it. If Apple is gaining market share, it’s because the experience people have with their products surpasses the products of others.
Take the iPad, which instantly shed the moniker “Jesus tablet” once it saw the light of day. It’s a blown-up iPod Touch, rolled out not to be insanely great but to give Apple an entry in the netbook derby.
Apple is in the business of creating...
Sunflower Solutions of Cleveland brings low-cost... →
A very nice article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about a startup company I’m proud to be affiliated with.
January 2010
3 posts
A simple rule that made me lose 5 pounds in a...
I vowed to start taking better care of my health last November. I’m not obese, fat, portly, flabby, or gross by any stretch of the imagination, but I wasn’t living a lifestyle that made me feel healthy.
I started a real exercise regimen in December, but prior to that I made a simple dietary rule for myself. This rule on its own was responsible for my losing 5lbs in a month. It’s not super...
December 2009
4 posts
There is no fold. Love your scrollbar. →
WatchI just wanted a vector rectangle with an 8.5x11 ratio. This UX workflow is horrible, when they made it so easy to do as a raster layer. Did I miss something here, or is this really the best way to do it?
Feed Reader Overload
I’ve observed an interesting pattern in the way I keep up with RSS feeds.
When I have few items in my feed reader, say less than 10, I jump in and read them all. Interesting or not. This means I waste my time reading articles which aren’t interesting to me, because there’s just not a whole lot to read.
The logical next step is to subscribe to more feeds, and ones which are more targeted to my...
October 2009
1 post
WatchI’m one of the partners in a new product, Prfessor, which has launched today.
February 2009
1 post
December 2008
1 post
June 2007
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