Archives for April, 2007

How we learnPosted on April 25, 2007


Tags: random thoughts

Making a statementPosted on April 22, 2007


Tags: random thoughts, trends

Twitter bites Steve Rubel in the bumPosted on April 17, 2007


Tags: Marketing, trends, twitter

Why is Microsoft punishing me?Posted on

I’ve posted here about the trials of trying to install photoshop but that was a cake-walk compared to the treatment from Microsoft. I bought Microsoft Visio at the same time, and I’ve recently tried to save some visio wireframes as a PDF, as my client doesn’t have Visio.
The help menu tells me I need [...]

Tags: Usability

Vale Kurt VonnegutPosted on April 11, 2007


Tags: random thoughts

A million passwordsPosted on


Tags: Usability, random thoughts

When kids aren’t kidsPosted on April 9, 2007

I just read a very disturbing article in the New York Times about “Mommy and Daddy’s Little Life Coach” - the decision and purchasing power that children now have within a family.
“They think of their computer-savvy, plugged-in children as confidants, and so they look to them for advice on life decisions, as well as [...]

Tags: random thoughts

The retrooencabulatorPosted on April 6, 2007


Tags: Marketing

Agencies don’t get viralPosted on April 4, 2007


Tags: Marketing

Accessibility and the blind masseusePosted on

I am just back from the best massage of my entire life (and it cost a very respectable $22 this time).
It was such an interesting experience as the masseuse was blind and the entire room was in darkness. I usually close my eyes anyway during a massage but this was such an unusual sensation [...]

Tags: accessibility