July 2007
The Archives
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Cycling
A Really Hard Bike Ride
Wow, did I underestimate the difficulty of Saturday’s ride. I really found the limits of my fitness, much more than I have in the past. I left my front door with my local riding partner Scott planning to push myself a little bit more than usual since I am a week away from participating in [...]
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Technology
Extractable Website Redesigned
Extractable, my former employer, recently launched a redesigned extractable.com site. I know that this was long in the planning. As with all companies who suffer from the “cobbler children’s shoes” complex, a web development agency’s own site is always a high priority on paper and it never gets the attention needed over competing client requests. [...]
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General
Updated Web Trend Map
While working for Extractable I collected a series of interesting cartoons and such on my office door. It was always a topic of conversation when something new would appear. One of the items I had posted since December was the Web Trend Map created by Information Architects. It was both a humorous and insightful diagram [...]
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General
BART Tickets Sponsored by Oakland A’s
This morning I purchased a new BART train ticket. I average one ticket per 7 days since I buy high value tix, so its possible that this is old news. It appears that the BART and Oakland A’s partnership to promote riding the train to games has moved to a new level. The back of [...]
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Technology
Will I See You In DC Next Month?
I am attending this year’s UX Week conference presented by Adaptive Path. This is easily our best UX Week ever. If you don’t believe me, just look at the program. For keynoters, we have Deborah Adler (the Target pill bottle), Jan Chipchase (design research for Nokia), the interface design team for the $100 Laptop, and [...]
