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Archive for January 2003

Garage Design Flaw
January 31st, 2003 | Tags: Leftovers

I looked at the Car park photo before reading the details. Which button would you press to lift the barrier (or gate)? I thought green since it means Go in this here parts. As I understand it, that also applies in England. A simple case of two buttons equals a lesson in bad usability.
Eeeeere It Is!
January 30th, 2003 | Tags: Leftovers

Are you up to speed on the latest news lexicon? Get a quick tune up with E-cyclopedia’s glossary of 2002. I’ve never seen archery defined that way before. Audit workship? Sounds like something that’s been going on for years. Blogger also made the cut — but isn’t that so 2001 or 2002?
Palm Desktop 4.1
January 28th, 2003 | Tags: Leftovers

I happen to be at palm.com to do e-book research when I learned there is a Palm Desktop update for downloading. There aren’t drastic changes, but it’s always nice to have a few extra features including the ability to search for duplicate records and more desktop color options. The color choices aren’t a big deal [...]
Faster! Faster!
January 27th, 2003 | Tags: Leftovers

There is another exclusive excerpt from Andy King’s Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization. This is the conclusion of Chapter 10, Optimizing Javascript for Execution Speed. It talks about an optimized duff’s device for faster loop unrolling, expression tuning, and Flash actionscript optimization. Looping through variables, while critical to the success of most programs, can [...]
W3C Does Captions
January 22nd, 2003 | Tags: Leftovers

I nearly fell out of my chair when I came across this news item: Web consortium captures captioning. The fact that W3C is getting involved is a big deal. Long ago, I accepted the fact there are going to be plenty of video games, Web sites, and TV programs that I wouldn’t experience for myself because [...]
Praystation
January 21st, 2003 | Tags: Leftovers

SXSW Tech Report Interview with Joshua Davis. I can honestly say this was one of the scariest interviews I’ve conducted because many in the Web design world are in awe of him and it’s easy to see why.
Redesign - At Last?
January 21st, 2003 | Tags: Leftovers

I’ve been talking about redesigning this place for exactly a year now and got no where as many other things jumped ahead of the redesign by way of priority. When I got stuck reviewing a chapter of a technical book, I started working on the redesign. I couldn’t handle the chapter anymore and I needed to [...]
Media Diet
January 20th, 2003 | Tags: Leftovers

This is a good kind of diet. Over at J-Log, find how I balance my daily newstrition. Others like J.D. Lasica have done the same in previous issues.
MLK, Jr. Day
January 20th, 2003 | Tags: Leftovers

In the USA, we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. on the third Monday of the month, which happens to fall on my birthday this year. Couldn’t ask for a better holiday to share on the annual personal day. Appropriately, on the day we honor differences, I received Ukranian birthday wishes from Oleksiy Kolisnychenko. The note says, [...]
Baby Pool Time
January 18th, 2003 | Tags: Leftovers

The baby pool is officially open at B-Day Blog. No worries about cheaters — we don’t know the gender, but we can tell you it’s a boy or a girl.