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Rainy in Vancouver

I just arrived in Vancouver and it is cold and rainy. It made me realize I have never been to Vancouver when it hasn’t been raining. The last time I was here was on my way to heli-skiing west of Banff. I don’t think my customer meeting will be that exciting. The rain reminded me [...]

Repeat after me, “you plug it in and it works”

I am constantly disappointed by the people we call experts. Fast Company interviewed a bunch of experts involved in the digital music space (all of them very sensitive about the success of the iPod) and despite the apparent collection of intelligence, not one of them gets it. Henri Crohas comes close by saying “What Apple [...]

Kitten Reviews

John points to a kitten review I’m sure Mandy would appreciate.

Design blinders and tough decisions

Dean recently announced IE7 will have tabbed browsing on the IE blog. In the post he says, “Some people have asked why we didn’t put tabs in IE sooner. Initially, we had some concerns around complexity and consistency… will it confuse users more than it benefits them? Is it confusing if IE has tabs, but [...]

It’s the little things…

In our 12 hours of driving to and from Santa Barbara one of the topics that came up was management (poor Jul). We talked about the different phases of learning to be a manager (which can be brutal, sorry Mandy) and what actually defines a good manager. There are about a million books you can [...]