I’ll be the first to admit it: I don’t know the first thing about drawing, and it never ceases to irritate me. For this reason, I was incredibly excited when I ran into Drawspace by way of Hillel Cooperman’s weblog, today. They cover everything f...
As this year draws to an end, I wanted to offer a few predictions for what I think 2007 will bring: Apple will release a new UI with Mac OS X 10.5 that is reminiscent of iTunes 7, and I will spend the rest of the year slagging it. ...
GQ has an article about Rahm Emmanuel, Illinois Congressman and one of the architects of the Democratic Party’s November triumph, and the state of histrionics the party elite found itself in during the waning weeks of the campaign: Rahm delivers a...
My web browser’s home page is set to MSN.com, and I just noticed an interesting-sounding article on the main page, entitled Designing for the Visually Impaired. As I have a fairly keen interest in this topic, I opened the link to discover a beauti...
I spoke too soon the other day when I complained about the Geek Squad’s new automated phone system. I received an email from Robert Stephens, the company’s founder, earlier today informing me that he had read my blog, and was indeed fixing the pro...
Helen, my girlfriend, received a new endtable from overstock.com today. It turned out that the metal frame was physically warped, and she spent 15 minutes trying to track down Overstock’s phone number in order to request an RMA number without succ...
I get a lot of email everyday. And by a lot, I mean that it totals into the thousands of items*. Seriously. Much of this is addressed to various internal mailing lists to which I subscribe, such as an Xbox Discussion alias, or Visual Studio UI dis...
Imagine working for a company that is tolerated, at best, in many social circles. Imagine being a computer science graduate, going to a class reunion, telling people you work for Microsoft, and watching your former classmates slowly back away as i...
I simply cannot stress enough that you. must. use. the. <label>. tag. when. creating. forms. ARGH! What brings this up for me today was a Digg link to a website entitled ObscureTags.com. The site is really quite funny, I’ll admit, but it’s always ...
Blurbomat has a fantastic advanced Photoshop tutorial on retouching your photos without doing anything that that might “look like ass. Avoid looking like ass.” Jon Armstrong, the tutorial author and husband of the chicken-hating Heather Armstrong...