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Entries from November 2007

I hate Adware!

November 9th, 2007

Never gotten a virus, but this is this second piece of adware i’ve gotten!  Broke down and bought some AV software.  Cleaned up an fixed up, but grumble grumble.

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Don’t let PR drive a release

November 8th, 2007

When I started working at Yahoo! in a reactionary bit of vision — not really that bad of a vision — was to re-skin Yahoo Mail.  As we all know, information leaks at big companies.  So when we had a fairly clear idea of when Google was going to announce Gmail we of course had [...]

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CMS Defined

November 5th, 2007

Content

Documents — HTML, Wiki, Images, Excel, etc.
External Documents (aka bookmarks)
Lists of stuff — ToDo, Tables, etc.

Managment — Collection of Content organized in some way

10 documents
no management necessary
100 documents
simple categories, heirarcy
10000 documents
search

Management part 2

Blog = Time Ordered
Heirarch
Categorized & Tagged, publisher created organization
Search
Related documents — collection, human and [...]

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Elements of Simplicity

November 5th, 2007

Just book marking Elements of Simplicity have to think about this for a few minutes..  Funny how the trailing slide is a 2×2 matrix turn 45′ to make it a "diamond".
The Grid is:
Cost - [lower ... higher]
Benefit [ lower ... higher]

Giving these key points:

0,0 - frustration (low benefit, high cost)
0,1 - contentment (high benefit, high [...]

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Revmaster

November 5th, 2007

Got the revmaster this weekend!  Now to finish outfitting it…  On the shopping list:

Pedals — Turns out that look no longer makes Delta cleat pedals, so either need to go shopping on eBay or "upgrade" two bikes worth of pedals.  The challenge with upgrading is what to get… so it’s off to eBay.   Some of [...]

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Punked

November 1st, 2007

I’ve gone punk…  not really, but after spending three hours in a chair getting my hair bleached it’s worth a blog post.

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