Jun
1st
Fri
1st
About software, users and stuff. From one developer to another.
Between Today and Tomorrow
- Operator: What’s your confirmation number?
- Me: EPHZV0
- Operator: And when is your departure?
- Me: Today
- Operator: I’m sorry sir, but that’s not correct. You must tell me the correct date. Is there another day you’d like to try?
- Me: Um, maybe… tomorrow?
- Operator: Yes, that’s much better. I’m glad you got your dates right. Thank you for being smart enough to fly US Airways.
If you got a paper with a printed URL, that ended with ‘Page____60336.aspx’, how many underscores would you type? The correct answer is four. But why?
Outlook Reply/Draft Stupidity
- Select an email in Outlook 2003
- Click Reply and type some gibberish
- Wait for Outlook to auto-save the draft
- Close the message window
- Select No when Outlook wants to keep the draft
Now you have an unread message in Trash, and the selected email is still marked as replied to. Very annoying.
PlainSimple Design
The most beautiful and simple blog layout I’ve seen so far.
A designer knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
May
22nd
Tue
22nd
Bad Day at the Office
Why do people use the word permalink? If a link isn’t permanent, it shouldn’t be a link! Stop calling it that, it’s confusing. Every link is sacred!
63% of software projects exceed their budget estimates, with the top four reasons all relating to product usability: frequent requests for changes by users, overlooked tasks, users’ lack of understanding of their own requirements, and insufficient user analysis communication and understanding.
— Leaderer & Prassad
May
21st
Mon
21st
If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a
better horse.
better horse.
— Henry Ford
