Archive for March 7th, 2007

When it comes to user interfaces, I should leave well enough alone - and stop futzing around

I keep wasting hours tweaking and re-writing my blog’s look-n-feel. No sooner do I get it working the way I like, that I go too far and then decide to start over with some other theme.
The most recent activity was to leverage a theme with lots of cool JavaScript. I wanted it to be flexible [...]

Multi-Protocol IM Clients and Client Frameworks

Upon reading a commentary from Irwin Lazar, Carl Tyler asks
Is instant messaging the death knell for email?
I think the answer is “no”. What I do believe is that individuals will gravitate to a single interface to whatever content they use most.
Email, IM, Blogs, Web, and applications all have their own user interfaces. When these start [...]

Quit complaining about your slow Internet connection !

It could be a whole lot worse …
I just got a humorous but very real picture from my brother up in Maine. Guess I’ll shouldn’t be complaining about spotty Internet performance when he’d just like running water !