Updates

  • In August, I attended an Usability Professionals’ Association Meeting “Obsession: the Sympathetic Heart of Design“, given by Tom Brinck. Among other things, his definition of “Web 2.0” was the ability for people to “geek out” about stuff they like. Geotagging photographs and now organizing my bookshelf and rating books online seem to be two shiny

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  • So, another sunset joy ride. This time, I decided to try opening the window and sticking the camera out into the breeze. The wind pushed in the zoom lens, so I’d have to keep my hand on it to hold the zoom. The photos are better, of course, without the layer of plexiglass and reflection,

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  • Been dipping back into ecology recently, reading two pop-sci books: Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and E.O. Wilson’s The Future of Life. In response, I wrote a much longer post that was basically a bunch of whining about it all. Feel grateful there is a delete button. I am looking

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  • From Stephen: another variant on remote standup from 37 signals. Want to try it?

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  • Eric took some fantastic photos on a flight Saturday.

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  • For interested and distant friends and family, here is the write-up on our house for the Old West Side Homes Tour. This story appeared in the September Old West Side News. The write-up gets my current profession wrong even after I corrected them, but otherwise it is a nice summary. Probably not a good idea

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