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Design should be pervasive

Kathy makes an argument that Marketing should make the user manuals. I agree with the sentiment of her post, but would change the title. I think it should read “Why the design team should be involved in all aspects of your product.” Her title implies that only the marketing team can make something look good. [...]

Netflix does previews right

I love movie previews. I think I like them so much because they are often better than the movie. You get to see all the good scenes stitched together with a clip from some great song. You laugh, you cry, all in three minutes. Better yet you never have to see the movie and find [...]

Google Wifi Comes to Mountain View

July 2006 release of the Jotspot wiki

A couple weeks ago we released a new version of our Jotspot wiki. The team really knocked it out of the park with this release. I highly recommend you go check it out. If you have tried to contact me in the last three months, I apologize for my lack of response. The release pulled [...]

7-zip – great alternative to Winzip

Winzip continues to get more creative with their tactics to get you to pay them money. Principally I don’t mind paying for software but Winzip just seems so, well, simple. The latest version of Winzip counts down the number of days it has been installed as well as the number of archives you have opened [...]

Peppermint Margaritas demonstrate abysmal attention to detail

Yesterday was Margarita Sunday (and therefore today is hangover Monday). Whenever I make Margaritas I reminded of the simple fact that they are pretty much straight Tequila. They trick you because the Tequila hides behind the lime juice [1] but in the end you are dumping Tequila out of the bottle into another container so [...]

More tools

I added Filddler and winscp to my list of required web developer tools.

Props to Joel

I was reading this post over at Joel on Software and I was reminded how much I appreciate Joel Spolsky. Joel started writing about software and the experience of running a company back in 2000, and his blog is one of the only blogs that has stayed on my reading list for six years running. [...]

3pm beer caught on camera

I ran into a friend who mentioned she had seen me in the newspaper. “You were drinking a beer mid-day at work!” she said. I told her she must be mistaken. Stupid internet proves me wrong all the time. Plus, do you see the glare off my partially balding head? Nearly blinded me. For the [...]