Archive for July, 2004

I Feel the Love

Monday, July 19th, 2004

Today is the 5-year anniversary of my current job. woo.
I cut my hair over the weekend. Now it looks like it did back then; very, very short. I drove to Illinois from Oregon. I new I would be in a non-air conditioned car for up to 4 days, so I cut [...]

SURL 6.2

Saturday, July 17th, 2004

The newest research findings out of the Software Usability Research Laboratory at Wichita State University are online.
Topics include:

evaluating four white space layouts for textual web pages
the power of interactivity on educational websites
preferences of online banking customers
evaluating text density and contrast effects on visual search
use of technology in educational settings
examining data entry methods with handheld devices

I’ll [...]

Idea Analysis and the Parabolic Weenie Roaster

Thursday, July 15th, 2004

Business Logs actually began in February 2004, when in the course of one week Mike, Paul and I posted on our respective blogs about the desire to start doing something new. A week or so later I started a blog to chronicle our conversations.

We mulled many options, most of them revolved around using the [...]

PWR Idea #3786

Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

I am looking at a Uniball FUSION pen. And it is really strange. The casing is shades of gray, except the part that has the ink in it; that part is clear. The ink is also clear. Yup, no color. So I thought, okay here’s a gray pen. Does [...]