Archive: Outside the Box category
Lately I haven't been in much of a blogging mood, I'm afraid. Now that I'm done with my midterms, that should change. So, I'm currently reading the CSS specification. I expected it to be boring, the equivalent of walking through a desert, but it's actually quite ...
Came across a very interesting idea on LibrarianInBlack.net, namely textcasting. Apparently Slate.com has started doing it, and in all honesty I really like it. With podcasting and screencasting, textcasting fits right in with the rest of the family. And it's a much cooler name than ...
So I bit the (small) bullet and upgraded to the Basic plan on Backpack ($5/month). Hopefully 25 pages will be enough; we'll see. The five that come with the free plan certainly weren't, and things started getting crammed and I didn't even use Backpack for several weeks because ...
This morning I read How to Backup Your Mac Intelligently, and I realized that I'm a sitting duck right now. But not for much longer. There was a link to Jungle Disk in the comments (#16), and I realized that Amazon S3 is a really ...
Garrett Dimon's got a good post today, on interface design:
For me, I’ve found that by writing a paragraph or some bullet points, I come up with ideas I wouldn’t have otherwise. It also helps to expose oversights and logic errors. This only takes me about 30 seconds per feature, ...
iCryptex is a funny little satire on both the Da Vinci Code and Apple. I've already blogged about what I think of the Da Vinci Code, incidentally. And no, I don't really care to watch the movie. (I've got to read through all those design ...
A while ago I discovered the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library, but I didn't really look into it (it was one of those put-on-the-shelf-for-future-reference things). Then I found Functioning Form, which is interviewing various interface designers right now. From there I checked the Yahoo library out again, ...
I think my iPod's dying. In dog years it's practically a centenarian (I bought it a year and a half ago), so it's not too surprising. But it is sad. I wonder how much it'd cost to get it fixed... It'll probably have to wait until ...
I stumbled across a Google Jobs page a few minutes ago, intrigued by the 20% time idea. And from there I found An Inside Look at Google, an interesting video about what it's like to work at Google. Dang it, I'd like to work at Google. ...
Finally started doing some Ruby coding today. I'm writing a pedigree parser that takes an XML pedigree and outputs it to HTML, and so the natural first step was to see what Ruby's XML capabilities are. REXML is cool. I've done a fair amount of XML ...
