Wil Shipley:
The latter is the touchstone of great design: we must strive to make our programs require as little learning as possible on the user’s part. Each little thing they have to learn about our program is another obstacle to them using it fully, another tiny chunk of enjoyment stripped from their experience.
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Rorschach, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
Rorschach died last week.
I said goodbye to him when he went up to Massachusetts with Cecily, but didn’t expect it to be for good. His death was sudden and without warning: Cecily doesn’t know for certain what caused him to get sick so quickly.
One day, he was fine. The [...]
Sleepy, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
Because that’s how I feel right now.
OpenCaster is an open-source TS streaming application by Avalpa Digital Engineering.
They have a mantra: “Keep it Simple, Stupid!“
As mantras go, that isn’t bad. We’ve all encountered the KISS principle at some point. Simple enough, let’s move on…
Keep it simple stays for “don’t complicate things if it’s not necessary”.
Um, yes. I guess it does. [...]
To all my friends Stateside, happy 4th of July.
To everyone else: Enjoy the extra bandwidth on WoW as Americans play outside for once.
Was taken by this quote:
And while we’re agreeing with John Scalzi, let’s also note that yes, honestly, the attitudes of the “big three” toward electronic submission really have, over the last decade, gone from “practical response to unsolved problems of electronic mail and text” to “old man [...]
If you run a drupal site, and want to post to it via blogging software such as MarsEdit or the TextMate Blogging bundle, you may get some odd errors. Here is an explanation and workaround for these (and other) client software.
Stuff on my desk…, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
Playing with automatic post-to-blog from my camera.
The eye-fi is just a bit clumsy when it comes to posting here…
I just unearthed a digest from the Internet Oracle while digging through some old text files. Turns out, the oracle still exists. Who knew?
From the digest:
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 16:59:10 -0500 From: Internet Oracle <oracle-vote@cs.indiana.edu> Subject: Internet Oracularity #881-09
Selected-By: Scott Forbes <trans@lucent.com>
The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question [...]