I have never dropped a laptop, but I have caught my eldest prying the keys off a Toshiba Tecra 8100. Ever had to put the keys back on a laptop? When you are ham-handed like I am…it was a two-hour curse-fest with the ZenWife laughing at me, scolding the boy and grimacing at my language — simultaneously.
One of the shift keys was never quite the same.
Then two years later, I found his younger brother doing the same thing to another Toshiba Tecra 8100.
Ok, this story is better.
This is an abomination. But I am not sure which group, the Windows Regime or the Mac Mob, will consider it the greater heresy.
All of my posts for the last 12 hours or so have been hung up in the PING phase. Looks like the Technorati Ping Server (rpc.technorati.com) is down or unavailable. I can’t even open a TCP connection to it.
I have never had the pleasure of working for an organization that uses Lotus Notes as its primary corporate e-mail program. And I never will work for one; this is one of the core beliefs that guide my life.
Lotus Notes is a long-lost relic of the early 1990s, when GUI design was in its infancy and the precepts were still being laid out. This site, categorizes 70 reasons for the loathing that this dinosaur evokes.
Number #71: Lotus Notes still can’t receive HTML e-mail messages, 10 years on.
Article link courtesy of Damien Katz.
This time, the IP (67.164.122.83) is definitely a client computer.
It’s hitting me once every 15 minutes, like clockwork.
Time to add another entry to the IPTABLES config. Done.
In an interview with InfoDesign, Jared Spool talks about Web Design.
The TakeAway:
I learned quickly that business executives didn’t care about usability testing or information design. Explaining the importance of these areas didn’t get us any more work. Instead, when we’re in front of executives, we quickly learned to talk about only five things:
1. How do we increase revenue?
2. How do we reduce expenses?
3. How do we bring in more customers?
4. How do we get more business out of each existing customer?
5. How do we increase shareholder value?Notice that the words ‘design’, ‘usability’, or ‘navigation’ never appear in these questions. We found, early on, that the less we talked about usability or design, the bigger our projects got. Today, I’m writing a proposal for a $470,000 project where the word ‘usability’ isn’t mentioned once in the proposal.
John Battelle broke the story of how Google will assign bonuses.
Then Russell Beattie leaps in. He slams this idea. As do I. Google will create a culture of have and have nots. And with morale being anecdotally reported as low due to the publication of money made by people when Google went public, I continue to feel that Google will implode or get acquired within 5 years.
These are likely to be the only two years since its presentation to the people of Canada that the Stanley Cup will not be presented to the best team in hockey.
The Free Stanley group is seeking to change that by restoring the prestige of the cup, and presenting it to the best hockey team playing in 2005. This could be exciting adventure, making hockey truly worldwide.
There are hundreds of teams worldwide who would leap at a chance to play for the Stanley Cup. I know I would…in a heartbeat.
Oh, and for the folks in Boston who may have forgotten hockey…the 1972 Bruins.
This morning, I decided that I had to re-locate to blog server that I ran myself. Typepad was kind enough to provide me with a 90-day free subscription, and I would been happy to use MoveableType. But when I went to install Moveable Type, the process was far more complex than I had time to dedicate.
b2evolution appeared straightforward. I installed it. Found that it had a Moveable Type (or Typepad) import feature. Exported my Typepad data, including the images.
Imported it. Blog was done.
Really, it was that simple. I was shocked. By 3PM EST, I was tweaking the layout and the template, not futzing with the content. Kudos to the b2evolution team; this is a truly amazing lightweight blog platform for someone like me, who wants something to work right out of the box.
I will keep you informed as I continue to use this product.