Archive for April, 2005

TC BUZZ Coffee in Bloomington, Illinois

Sunday, April 24th, 2005

[Update:] And about 20 hours later, this post is the #1 hit on Google for searching TC Buzz.
We’ve been spending a lot (and I mean a lot) of time at a new café here in sleepy Bloomington, Illinois called TC Buzz. The article* in the local paper (the oddly named, and even more oddly [...]

Paper Prototype Usability

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

I am doing some paper-based usability tomorrow (formative testing if you must know). I realised that I don’t care about timings. I know that all the fields in question will be going somewhere in the app, and as such I put them relative to similar information on the screens. I needed to [...]

Tracking Packages on Amazon

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

I love tracking my packages from Amazon almost as much as I like looking at referrer logs. Yes, I live an exciting life.
But I am often confused by the tracking data. Case in point:

So, it got to town at about 7am this morning. Then, just an hour later, it’s out for delivery… [...]

Blogging Experiment with Google

Monday, April 18th, 2005

As I wrote last Wednesday on my personal blog, we got a new water heater. Exciting news to you all I am sure.
As with most home repair activities that one rarely does, when it comes time it’s difficult to know what company to go with. Who do you trust? Who is least [...]