March 30, 2008
This week is the Internet User Experience conference, a conference spotlighting methods for dramatically improving today’s web site user experience. I attended the conference last year and gained a lot from listening to my colleagues in other usability, web design, and human factors companies locally and globally. I was grateful for the things I learned [...]
March 25, 2008
Our alarm clock, the Big Ben Moon Beam clock that we got as a wedding present in October, 2000, no longer snoozes. This is a problem, because at our house we’ve developed a complex system of setting the clock too early, setting the alarm too early, and then waking ourselves up by the mental calculations [...]
March 24, 2008
So, when I went to meet my sister for the Heinrich family reunion in Logansport, I brought with me some local treats for my Atlanta-based sister and her family. Specifically, I transported the following:
lovely Arbor Teas’ organic, fair trade, and sustainably packaged green tea. She had ordered some black tea for herself, but I included [...]
March 23, 2008
My aunt Mercedes is the organizing force behind the Heinrich family reunions. My mom is one of 5 siblings, and her family is spread out across the US, with my sister’s family forming the southern border in Atlanta, my cousin Donie as the northeastern representative in Weymouth, MA, and my cousins Seamus, Anita, and Willow [...]
March 17, 2008
I’ve had an Amazon wish list going for a while, collecting books I hear about that I want to read. It was getting longer and longer. At the same time, I am trying to optimize my belongings to fit into my space and I’m trying to keep the possessions I have in the house [...]
March 11, 2008
I’m thinking I’m going to not delete any past posts, but also disable the autoposting from my del.icio.us to this blog. I’m also considering deleting past posts, but that seems so much more drastic.
Edge 238 - Social networks are like the eye
Happiness spreads in networks. If your friend’s friend becomes happy, it ripples through the network and can make you happy. We see clusters of happy and unhappy individuals in the social network like blinking lights in this complex fabric that is made up
(tags: happiness community network social [...]
March 10, 2008
My meditation center had a 1-day meditation retreat on Saturday. This is probably the most private thing I do, and in the past I’ve hesitated sharing about it. For instance, several acquaintances and colleagues asked me what I was doing this weekend, and I replied “not much” to most of them. I’m not sure where [...]
March 7, 2008
The Ineffable Team-Building Power of a Daily Stand-Up Meeting | Own Page One: Search Engine Visibility Blog - Online Marketing Strategy and Tips
Sometimes the most important take-away for me from stand up isn’t the status but the mood of the group or of an individual, and I know of no better quick temperature for the [...]
March 3, 2008
DWBlog » Blog Archive » NewsFire… the news starts here!For those new to this, NewsFire is a news reader for blogs, news sites, and anything else that publishes an ‘RSS’ syndication feed. It watches for news so you don’t have to. When a new story is published, NewsFire brings it to your attention with so(tags: [...]
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