clock … watching time, the only true currency

I know lots of folks with one of the new Treos… I’ll see if they want to try Mobile Feed Reader from Feedburner. Good luck, Dick, Eric, Steve, and Matt.

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The Police. Invisible Sun. Great tune, from a fantastic album. I even took the rare step of rating the song in iTunes.

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All the usual suspects warn against the passive voice. Paul Ford does something about it, with the Passivator, a bookmarklet which highlights some obvious uses of the passive voice on a page. While part of my purpose here is to improve my writing, I doubt I’ll spend the time to play with this more than [...]

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And everyone does. His latest: “Situated Software,” from which, a quote:
Expectations of longevity, though, are the temporal version of scale — we assume applications should work for long periods in part because it costs so much to create them. Once it’s cheap and easy to throw together an application, though, that rationale weakens. Businesses routinely [...]

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Struggline with getting Radio to post my home page for the last week or so. But it is upstreaming the archive, 25 files at a time, every time I publish a new item. Maybe that’s a month per post, which means I need 6 more posts to get to the current day?

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Google announces GMail via this press release dated April 1. Webmail with 1GB of free storage, plus great search (as you would expect). So… is it real?
I’m asking because Simon Willison’s post ranges from excitement about the idea of the service, but then points out that Google has a sense of humor about these things [...]

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Jared Spool has a new article at User Interface Engineering, “The Top 3 Priorities of the Talking Horse.
It could be that your site (or part of your site) is a talking horse. Is everyone focusing on just “making it work”?
There is the partial jab at Jakob Nielsen’s discount usability (although Jakob never uses “discount”).
Once [...]

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For a new project at work, I’m blocking out the different components using Jesse James Garrett’s visual vocabulary. I’d seen this methodology before, but I was more intrigued after seeing the stencil available in OmniGraffle, a Mac OS X diagramming/charting tool (think Visio, for Mac).
I’m not a very visual person, but I’m learning more and [...]

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One bridge, five miles, and no kids = 24 hours of vacation. Never had to think about the clock, except to make it to our dinner reservation. Now that’s a birthday present to ourselves.

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Michael McDonough’s Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School… let’s skip to #9, shall we?
9. It all comes down to output.
No matter how cool your computer rendering is, no matter how brilliant your essay is, no matter how fabulous your whatever is, if you can‰t output it, distribute it, and make it [...]

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