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Putting the user into UI

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Seriously, how hard can it be to design a simple, secure interface that can’t be messed up?
While it reeks of Big Brother, maybe we should just send everything to Google.  They’re good with interfaces and, well, simplicity.  Talk about statistical breakdowns tho…they could make many millions with this polling data.  Just return a nice percentage [...]

Interiors

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Flipping channels and see AMC is playing Interiors, notable for me not because it’s a Woody Allen movie, but that it was one of 2 movies answered to my 1996 question of Rusty, a guy I worked with during my internship…I asked for ‘good movies’ and I only got through half of it the first [...]

Quote of the day

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

“I don’t think it’s appropriate for Tom DeLay’s cousin to lecture me on the culture of corruption.” - Dustin McDaniel responding to Gunnar DeLay 2 minutes ago during the Arkansas Attorney General debate.

Happy Anniversary

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Oct 9, 2000. Six years ago was my first day on the job, and today I was basically given the reins of representing my section as we install telephones, networking and more on a new visitor center opening in a week, one which has created way more stress than probably should be.
Long day but [...]

ehhhh

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

Yikes!

This world

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

Watching the Discovery Channel and they’re showing this great show on China.  In a transition shot, I saw a really neat idea…the streetlights also have clocks, showing the time go down in the color of the light that’s displayed, so that you have an idea of how long you’ll have green, or be forced to [...]

Bigger Badder Better

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Have spent the past hour or so looking up and downloading podcasts that might be useful for the time I’m going to spend on the road and staying over at Bull Shoals next week.  Gonna be long, and probably quite lonely.  Discovering that there’s too much info for the iTunes window at a paltry 1024×768 [...]

Made In America

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Everyone knows that the quality of American-made products has taken a turn for the worse in the last 30-40 years. I would laugh at anyone suggesting I buy a car from Detroit rather than a Honda or Toyota (though I’ve been reading that the Saturn Aura is supposed to be a true response to [...]

TV Guilt

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

I admit it, head hung in shame and all that jazz…I really like watching tv this fall. Monday, Tuesday AND Wednesdays I like shows. Like tonight…I enjoy watching Heroes… I like the whole overarching graphic novel feel, and I can’t remember a show since ‘Golden Years’ (and don’t even think Betty White, moron) [...]

flick’n

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

So I’m being fashionably late to the party and setting up my flickr account. I’d signed up months ago (still way late) and started using it just a couple weeks back. It’s more of a snapshot folio, and it’s just getting started so no boos.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrinehar/
But what got to me is that while there’s [...]

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