Check out this screenshot of Microsoft Office 12, then look at this blog post I made in October and watch my little Flash demo.
Note how Office 12 totally copied me. Well, they copied the simplest and least controversial aspect of my design: the formatting bar that pops up when you make a selection. [...]
Archive for February, 2006
I Win!
28Feb06Burrito
28Feb06I just had an absolutely delicious burrito… I sauteed up some onions, garlic, green peppers, spinach, and black beans, tossed in some cumin, coriander, oregano, ground chiles, and rolled all of that in a whole wheat tortilla with some chopped onion, salsa, and cheese. I ate it with some of the great smokey hot [...]
Abortion Ban
26Feb06I have been away all weekend, so I just found out today that the South Dakota Senate approved a near-complete ban on abortion this past Wednesday. The ban allows abortion only in cases where a woman could die from childbirth.
In practical terms, this means that women in South Dakota will need to drive up [...]
Expose Yourselves
23Feb06I spend a lot of time browsing the web and come across interesting things all the time, but I very rarely re-post them here, despite the fact that posting links that you had visited was the original purpose of the “web log”.
But I found a page today that was extremely thought provoking and [...]
Run
17Feb06Normally I run a pretty casual pace. I almost never time myself because I don’t set speed goals, I set distance goals. Today, however, I just felt really fast, and I happened to look at the clock when I ran out the door so I know just how fast I went: 7.5 miles [...]
Design That Matters
17Feb06This is for all of my colleagues who are interested in that exciting space where design and social change overlap. I just ran across an organization called “Design That Matters“, which “is building a worldwide system that enables the citizen sector, university students, and businesses to jointly innovate for social change.” I haven’t [...]
Bedtime Report
14Feb06Punk night: totally worth it. Saw The Nicatones, The Methadones, The Queers, all were excellent. Couldn’t stop dancing the whole time. Interesting facts: the bottoms of my jeans look like they were dipped in chocolate. I am about to take my third shower today. My ears are ringing.
Now off to [...]
New words
14Feb06I have been reading (read: living vicariously through) a great webcomic called Questionable Content. Reading the archives, I have learned several new words, and you know what they say… the best way to learn a new word is to use it in a sentence on your blog. So, here goes:
I had a great [...]
Musical nirvana?
13Feb06Through some stroke of luck, I discovered in my inbox today a flyer for the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival which takes place in Tennessee June 16-18. Look at this list of bands:
Radiohead
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Phil Lesh & Friends
Beck
Elvis Costello & the Imposters
Oysterhead
Bonnie Raitt
Death Cab for Cutie
moe.
Bright Eyes
The Neville Brothers
Bela Fleck & The [...]
The Marinara Project
13Feb06A few weeks ago I had was in the grocery store with Marty and Apurva and we saw the head baker dude (not sure what his real title is) in the pasta isle aisle. He is a friend of Marty’s so Marty asked him what sauce he recommended. He gave a recommendation, and [...]
