Here’s a pic I took on my drive home today:

I made this slightly out of the way trip so that I could submit an entry to A Day On Earth 9/29, which I came across in one of my Flickr feeds.
The curious thing about this to me is that I’m pretty skeptical about this whole […]

I realized that this cat hasn’t made an appearance yet in my collection of Friday cat blogging photos yet.
This one has actually been faved on Flickr by four people. Go figure! But I particularly liked the comment that one person left:
… i like that her toys are all over the floor, just like my house.
Guilty […]

Kumie, a former co-worker, shares her pain with iTunes. Her letter to Apple:
While you sh** heads are getting your act together with Itunes 7, maybe you should put a link to download Itunes 6 on the Itunes page in the meantime. Your sh***y program and sh***y new “gapless playback” feature has deleted about 4 gigs […]

This one went into the queue when I was doing my renewal, but better late than never. I ran across this post from Presentation Zen which is largely about the Tufte vs Powerpoint smackdown.
Re PPT, the highlights for me are those which counter Tufte’s position: Don Norman’s “In defense of Powerpoint” and Jean-luc Doumont’s The […]

Note to self: Dirk’s article on applied empathy as a design framework looks very interesting. Consider application to our new efforts. (Hat tip: InfoDesign)

Got a blog? Then I hope you have Akismet.
I’m not sure why I put off installing it here, but the 20 or so spam comments over the weekend were more than enough motivation. Granted, comment moderation is nice (especially when there is a batch mode), but frankly, I was tired of just getting the useless […]

(Gee…a whole week with no posts? Wish I had a good excuse.)
I heard yesterday that we’ve now hit the point where the average home has more TVs than people. Yikes.
Of course, I’m a guilty party. I live alone, but have two myself (three if you count the tiny portable that’s been in my desk drawer […]

The weather was supposed to cooperate, so Margott and I took off to check out the Barracks Row festival and also go take some pics at Eastern Market.
As I was sitting there trying to compose the photo on the right to avoid shooting the duck with the price tag on it, Margott just said […]

Another funny bit from The Daily Show. Little Richard translates for W.
Note: I’d embed this video like Gina or Kumie have done recently, but, boo-hoo, YouTube doesn’t support us WordPress folks yet :(.

The weather was fab this weekend, so I went on a couple of photo excursions. More about yesterday’s later, as I want to scan in something relevant to it first. But here’s a snippet from today’s at Fletcher’s Cove.
Yeah, bad move taking the picture into the AM sun, but this was the more interesting view […]

Someone I’ve known for decades (let’s call her Mary) just left me a long message on my answering machine that went something like this:
Hi, meant to talk with you earlier in the week, but got distracted. Hope all is well. Here’s what we’re doing this weekend. [blah blah blah for however many seconds] Maybe we […]

If you’re so inclined, consider this message from the DNC:
The ABC television network — a cog in the Walt Disney empire — unleashed a promotional blitz in the last week for a new “docudrama” called “The Path to 9/11″. ABC has thrown its corporate might behind the two-night production, and bills it as a […]

So there’s Don Norman, being ornery. According to him, doing user observations first is wrong:
Let’s face it: Once a project is announced, it is too late to study what it should be – that’s what the announcement was about. …
Field studies, user observations, contextual analyses, and all procedures that aim to determine true human […]

Okay, if Gina can blog about Justin, I guess I can come clean about one of my guilty pleasures: daytime talk shows. Without TiVo, I’m sure I wouldn’t have this little pastime, but I do have a DVR, so I abuse it :).
So, I must admit to being bummed about Rosie’s debut on The View.
Why? […]

Well, that went fast! My five-week vacation/sabbatical is over. Tomorrow, it’s back to work as usual.
While I won’t be able to go back with stories of climbing Mt. Everest or hiking thru Nepal, the time off did do what I needed it to do…get some space between me and the goings-on in May and June. […]

I knew if I caught my cat mid-yawn it’d be funny :).
I had hoped to do some photography other than the cats this weekend…hopefully Ernesto won’t ruin the whole holiday weekend, especially since I’m back to work on Tuesday after my long vacation.