I was finally able today to get on to the IU VPN on my laptop under Linux! Yippee. I upgraded to Fedora Core 3, and followed these very simple instructions, and it just worked. Once I got everything installed, the actual connecting part was dead simple. I just provided the server [...]
Archive for November, 2004
Fast Feedback
19Nov04Within 12 hours after passing along the design mentioned in the previous entry, it looks like some of our ideas were implemented in Evolution, at least the removal of the word “appointment” and the one-click snoozing.
The rest of the recommendations didn’t make it in, but try submitting something like that to Microsoft, and [...]
The first rule of design club
18Nov04We had our first meeting of design club tonight. It was pretty informal (read: I went down to the lab and distracted Josh and Chad from studying,) but we took this design and came up with this redesign:
Things are getting pretty hectic right now at school with the SIGCHI projects really heating up, so [...]
Defense Mechanism
18Nov04I’ve been noticing a strange line of thinking becoming more and more prevalent in politics. I’ve seen it in President Bush and Rush Limbaugh, but I’m sure others are using it too. It’s the “they are trying really hard to beat us, so we must be right” line of thought.
Bush has used that [...]
Derivative production done right
17Nov04Today’s MP3 fix is a couple of songs from a canadian band called ‘The New Pornographers’. The name is a little overt, the music is a little derivative, and the production is a little heavy, but in all the right ways. Think derivative of The Who or the Stones, with the elements of [...]
Brad, you’re killing me!
15Nov04My paper on HCI theory is finally complete. It is not a masterpiece, but there are some good ideas inside. I feel strongly that Kuutti has missed the mark in her characterization of the invention of direct manipulation, and I think I make a good case for putting the C back in HCI. [...]
PLEASE CHANGE BELIEFS
14Nov04YOU CAN WATCH PEOPLE ALIGN THEMSELVES
WHEN TROUBLE IS IN THE AIR. SOME PREFER TO BE CLOSE
TO THOSE AT THE TOP AND OTHERS WANT TO BE CLOSE
TO THOSE AT THE BOTTOM.
IT’S A QUESTION OF WHO FRIGHTENS THEM
MORE AND WHOM THEY WANT TO BE LIKE.
Double Take
13Nov04Todays music is a couple of tracks off of Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville”. I’m loathe to snap off a couple of tracks, because I’ve been listening to it as an album, but I think these are a good place to start:
Liz Phair - Divorce Song
Liz Phair - Canary
I few months ago, I decided [...]
Overshare
12Nov04I haven’t been running for at least a month. And then not for several months before that. Twenty steps out the door, I am thinking running is not just therapudic for me, it is *cathartic*.
I run out to the road, taking a side track around the one-story office space behind our apartment complex. [...]
