Archive for December, 2006

Sagan At 6

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Happy Birthday, Sagan!
Sagan is very excited to be six. I woke her up this morning singing Happy Birthday. She got a small smile on her face, frowned, and smiled again. Kids are so funny in how they react sometimes to attention. Makes me wonder where she gets it from… :)
Every time [...]

MBTA Web Site Redesign — Updated

Friday, December 15th, 2006

[update]
When I was looking through the MBTA site while writing the post below I noticed some slowness but nothing too bad. Now the site is basically crawling. According to a short entry on Boston.com MBTA posted a notice on the site:

The MBTA apologizes for the slow response-time users experienced this afternoon on our [...]

Competition Demotivational

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

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Competition Demotivational, originally uploaded by Matthew Oliphant.

One of the ways I avoided work today. Well, avoided for less than 10 minutes. Plus it made one of my coworkers laugh and that is worth [...]

Simplicity, Complexity, and Complicatedness

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

I’ve read a number of posts in the past 2 weeks about simplicity. Each post beleaguers the point of how things should be kept simple with a warning to those who make interfaces (in its most general meaning) too complex.
Let me keep this one short (ha!) and just skip to the rant: Complex is [...]

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