Decided to take a walk up the road tonight with my camera, knowing there were some huge hay bales that looked like they might be an interesting subject. Turns out, Ariella was the more interesting subject, but the hay bales made a nice backdrop.
This one took a bit of photoshopping, as I really didn’t want to lose the sky while brightening the foreground.
This was right across the street…
And, one of Amanda…
Do you believe politicians when they say they’re making changes “for the children”? Think again. Our children face a future of rising taxes, squeezed — and perhaps falling — public services, and aging — perhaps deteriorating — public infrastructure (roads, sewers, transit systems). Today’s young workers and children are about to be engulfed by a…
Well, the overnight design refresh pushed my agent into all of the places on the server, so that’s good. I’ve decided not to risk modifying the agent to automatically delete the conflict docs, so I’m going into each place one-by-one and running the agent to select the docs, then deleting them with a quick visual…
While print newspaper circulation continues to decline, most newspaper publishers across the country have figured out how to counteract that – blogs. Nielsen NetRatings reported that “the number of visitors to the blog pages of the top 10 online newspapers grew 210% in the past year.” Further showing that it’s the strength of the blogs…
#1 – Videos from Design of Everyday Things [Don Norman’s jnd.org] One upon a time, many years ago — 1994 to be precise — The Voyager Company produced a delightful CD-ROM that included copies of several of my books (“Design of Everyday Things,” “Things that Make Us Smart,” and “Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions…
Since the past week has been very busy and I can’t seem to escape my desk today (supervisor is in Brazil, which leaves me responsible for both the intranet and Praxair.com websites, and with the whole terrorism threat thing it’s a “high communication” day) I thought I’d do some catchup blogging during lunch. Amanda got…