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February 2008
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Design, Technology
Adaptive Path’s First Book
Four of my esteemed colleagues collaborated on a new book, Subject to Change: creating great products and services for an uncertain world. The book addresses Adaptive Path’s philosophy in creating products and services, the importance of the right kinds of research, of making design an organizational competency, of thinking of your offerings as part of [...]
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Cycling, Technology
2008 Tour of California
This week Californians see the best of professional cycling in their own backyard. The Tour of California will take racers from the Bay Area to So-Cal over a 650 mile route. Yesterday I watched the race kick off both in person at the prologue and online via the official Tour Tracker. Prologue I picked up [...]
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Technology
A Better Mobile Signal in my House
I have terrible cellular coverage in my neighborhood. The city continues to block the installation of adequate cell towers even though nearby communities like Alamo have installed ones that REALLY look like trees. Here’s one photographed by WC Biker: Femtocells could be the answer to my problem. As Technology Review reports, cellular carriers see these [...]
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General
San Ramon Makes Moves for Future Growth
The city of San Ramon, where I live, is starting the annexation process of the Tassajara Valley. Just to the east of the city’s current border, this area is primarily undeveloped, spotted with just a few homes and primarily left for cattle grazing. Growing up here, I always considered that area to be part of [...]
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Design, Technology
Is Turbotax Too Friendly?
There’s places where it’s appropriate to use colloquial and humorous language in a webapp. Tax filing software is not one them. I think that Intuit is doing a great job of making their software and the entire tax preparation process more approachable, but joking about your legal terms teaches users to gloss over what is [...]
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