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AOL
·Testing AOL Journals.
·Netscape.
·Who wins in this deal? I think I do.
·You've got blog.
·Outside my office window.
·Don't count Netscape out yet.
·I'll be the judge.
·Scale.
·We make it, you consume it, pay up.
·Another AOL executive shuffle.
·A drop in subs.
·Blockbuster?
·AOL makes good on a promise.
·An attempt to be more constructive in my critique on AOL.
·More on AOL exclusive content.
·For AOL, User Experience is no longer the Value Proposition. It's the base line.
·Spam as a detriment to user experience.
·AOL gets something done about cable.
·AOL and broadband, the wait continues.
·Oh crap, is that a camera crew?
·Ouch.
·Mixed Signals.
·Job angst, over.
·AOL to buy Red Hat? I'd prefer a Lindows acquisition.

Apple and Mac OSX
·Having some copyright fun with GarageBand.
·Are five minute compositions worth anything?
·Yeah, GarageBand is cool.
·$50 extra.
·MSFT employee fired for posting pic of G5's.
·MSFT iTunes FUD (or 'How I Didn't Learn to Stop Worrying and Love iTunes')
·The battle for default browser status.
·Why did I buy an iPod?
·OS X for system administration.
·A good MacOSX RSS feed.
·iPod Notes are the coolest extra.
·Application Switching can be a Killer App.
·WWDC post mortem.
·Worst Kept Secret Ever.
·Pent up demand.
·Mac websites roundup.
·myPod.
·I want to Sync, not import.
·osOpinion declares Dvorak is an idiot.
·The Economist on Sony (and Apple).
·Fools rush in.
·I bought REM's "Document", will I buy Apple's?
·MSFT fictional FUD means something.
·Mac Linux merger? Fat f'ing chance.
·C'mon, switch.
·Build your own Mac.
·Apple on DRM: mum's the word.
·Apple slices.
·Apple standing on a cliff.
·Xbox hax0ring on Mac OSX.
·In OSX, write your app in the language you like.
·Transmit 2.0 beta looks good, very good.
·Preview lots of stuff.
·OSX TechNote tells all.
·A few points about Apple's opening of Rendezvous.
·At the Apple store.
·A Haxie idea.
·OSX [Jaguar build 6C106] looks good.
·A PVR for the rest of us.
·$100?
·Winterspeak owns.
·Audion is more User Centric than iTunes.
·Compiling, installing and using mod_mp3 on Mac OSX (Part 2 of 2)
·Compiling, installing and using mod_mp3 on Mac OSX (Part 1 of 2)
·Coming up next week...
·Going Mac makes some noise.
·Assassinate Spam on OSX.
·Browser wars? Browser onslaught.
·Your MacOSX dev tools need to be current.
·Give me my portable, or give me death.
·Apple misplaces its focus.
·Fear and Loathing in OS land.
·Begging for market share.
·Show me the buttons.
·Define your context.
·Once you go Mac, do you go back?
·Raising expecatations can be dangerous.
·OSX and XP, splitting hairs.
·Mac OSX is like chocolate and peanut butter.

Books and Reading
·Some weekend reading.
·My family is psychotic.

Business Technology
·I want my P2P.
·Taking the plunge (again).
·Why didn't some CGI nerd patent this already?
·A great idea in the hands of the wrong people.
·Number portability is killer, competition is a bitch.
·A myth comes home to roost.
·Amazon has a blogging patent? No.
·Broadband Affirmative Action.
·Reputation systems.
·Warchalking to die a long painful death.
·When is competition anti-competitive?
·My MSFT-is-anti-PNG Conspiracy theory.
·Phone converging, but not converged.
·Cool but tenuous.
·I'm afriad to breathe.
·Xbox is a DRM trojan.
·Why can't I order a Pizza from Dominos.com?
·Did I not predict this?
·Ramblings about the wireless future.
·Adelphia says 'construction never stopped.'
·Adelphia is 'moving ahead with plans.'
·Pondering Patents.
·Warwalking for Warspamming.
·A PVR for the rest of us.
·Does the ACLU have cable Internet access?
·Make it simple and the REST will follow.
·MovableType updates to 2.2
·Is McKinsey reading my blog?
·Deep linking to printer formatted pages.
·Version numbers are marketing devices.
·Oh Verisign.
·War Driving.
·Is 3G the last mile solution?
·If you provide Broadband, business plans will come.
·More on Flash as a platform for Web Apps.
·Public Wi-Fi networks may come (and go).
·What does .NET mean for the User Experience Architect?
·Be there or be square, somehow.
·Xbox or HomeStation, now or later.
·RDF has been patented?
·Bandwidth everywhere but not a byte to eat.
·Cataloging catalogs.
·The Xbox is a Trojan Horse
·Patents shackle iTV
·The Web Services train is rolling.

Design
·NFOTB
·Jaw dropping.
·A free tiBook desktop.
·Pirated Web Design. Yar Matey!
·New OmniGraffle UI Palette.
·Tiny Font roundup.
·Meaning in 10 pixels square.
·Old skills inform new ideas?
·Platitudes suck ass.
·Iconography.
·Don't forget the design part of the methodology.
·Dilbert Does Design.
·Waiting for Adobe
·Graceful Degradation is Good

Design Technology
·What is "png adoption"?
·Media Lab color palette.
·LiveMotion vs. Flash looks like a dead heat.
·Still waiting for Adobe, but now we know for how long.
·MPEG4, we hardly knew ye.
·Waiting for Adobe again, this time for LiveMotion.

Effort
·April Nerd's Day.
·My long wireless broadband nightmare is over.
·Triple Spam Filtering doesn't work.
·Adventures in Wi-Fi.
·I pay for value.
·Swamped.
·Butting into the conversation...
·I want my Semantic Web...
·Piracy as a competitor.
·Don't just be valuable, show it.
·Many UI job ads are still ridiculous.
·Keeping perspective, from the outside or in.
·Some tips on being a Web Professional.
·It's what you know AND who you know.

Gaming
·Review: RalliSport Challenge 2 for Xbox
·Major Nintendo DS HCI issue.
·Review: Toca Race Driver 2
·Unreal 2 is... uh, not so great.
·Video Game legitimization.
·Key command inconsistency on Xbox Live games.
·The online video game paradox.
·$2,772?
·I want a console better than the PSX.
·Video Game HCI/Ergonomics
·Metcalf's Law and broadband gaming decisions.
·I need a new online game.
·A wireless architecture for getting an Xbox online.
·I'm buying the Gamecube version.
·Has Nokia made 'pay to play' even less attractive?
·We've come a long way, dorfie.
·The waiting is the hardest part.
·A day late and a dollar short.
·Gameboy Advance controls make some games good and some bad.
·Nintendo amazes me.
·Xbox Live for the motivated only.
·User Centric Design makes for tough decisions.
·Wireless bridge to an Xbox, not.
·Console controllers suck for complex games.
·Why require broadband for console gaming?
·Everyone wants to hack the Xbox, even MIT.
·Network economics at play.
·Want a market? Just buy it. If you're MSFT that is.
·XBOX sales will mediate.
·WebMercials suck more than pop-under ads.
·No ads in my video games, please.
·More on the Console Wars
·The Dreamcast is finally worth it.
·Xbox or GameCube? I don't know yet, just not the PS2 please.

Information Architecture
·Random access info architecture.
·Twisted instructional design.
·Uncoupling Info Tech from Info Arch.
·Flash search engine shows relationships.
·PTI is IA on TV.
·When prototyping, go for broke.
·An overview of IA and usability.
·Don't forget, science informs knowledge.
·Learn by example, good or bad.
·MIT hops on board with IA (not AI).
·Enabling Information Architecture
·Mapping Springfield is an Information Architecture exercise.

Interaction Design
·Some video game menus need SERIOUS work.
·HCI Perversion.
·When prototyping, go for broke.
·Vocal UI's won't catch on in the mass market.
·XP versus Interaction Design is a good argument.

Internet Consulting
·Remember, it's 'show me the money.'
·Web development boiled down to the essential truths.
·Client cluelessness: Your biggest challenge.
·Patterns of Use
·For the third time, no!
·Emergency Room visits are like working at a dot bomb.
·When prototyping, go for broke.
·Non-technical Project Managers.
·The change process can be a mine field.
·Herding the cats.
·Removing the Barriers to Understanding

JavaScript
·Detecting alphanumeric characters in JavaScript.
·Getting form values for validation.
·Is the setAttribute() method broken in IE?
·cells[] array broken in Safari (?)
·Lesson Learned.
·getYear() in Safari == getYear() in Navigator 4.x
·A JavaScript Safari.
·Setting a maxlength on a textarea.
·Fab.
·You need a crutch when your leg is broken.
·Another diff in browser implementations.
·JavaScripting is an anecdotal art.

O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference
·ETCON session notes.
·Emergent Cali.
·Social shift.
·Confab to Hydra.
·Shirky on social software.
·Keynote on Day Two
·Rich Internet Applications.
·Some of my Keynote "Take Aways"
·Before the keynote.
·On my way to Cali, more AOL shenanigans.

Personal
·Too soon.
·On holiday.
·It didn't happen on TV.
·I miss couches.
·What a tease.
·Oh, isn't this delicious...
·Good dads play Gameboy.
·This is why there have been no posts recently.
·Wipe Out.

Photography
·Rare Sky.
·Lightpost.
·Migration.
·Corolla Dunes
·Tree and Sunset.
·Great Falls Desktop.

Random
·Seems irresponsible to me.
·Media bias.
·Recently consumed.
·This is deplorable.
·Best Spam Ever.
·Autechre's new record.
·I missed a few things.
·Wanted: One Conference Friend
·Even Dolphins hate Saddam.
·Poor kitty.
·Glasshaus is dead.
·UCLA Surveys the Digital Future.
·My obligatory snow storm post.
·Maybe my baby will want to rock out.
·Career Control is the key.
·I want to believe.
·Amazon Temptation.
·SBC, Unisys and BT: All Extremely Lame.
·Preventing the Harvest.
·RIAA: Time to Panic
·Corprate taunting of a merely mortal customer.
·I want a HipTop or a Treo, but...
·AGAIN, even though it's weak, turn on the WEP.
·Snow, and lots of it.
·Surgery.
·Pique me, get paid.
·Fear and Loathing in D.C.
·Wednesday.
·Lack of wit leads to link barrage.
· So i pick up UT2K3 at Software Etc. on Saturday. > > The box is not the usual oversized box I usually get...">Feel the love.
·MP3 war.
·In a world of privacy concerns, FOAF.
·Fix your Passat misfire.
·First to post the MP3 wins!
·Weekend reading.
·You can't win.
·Some site maintenance.
·Looking into copyright and fair use.
·3rd party Blog services starting to proliferate.
·AFK for a week.
·Some weekend reading.
·Fixed cgi link from yesterday's article.
·Coming up next week...
·My year-to-date server logs (link fixed, REALLY).
·It's your loss Verizon.
·My tiBook gets a new home.
·Hiatus.
·Visual Searching.
·Who wants my $50/month?
·Opinionated Quick Links.
·Behavioral MetaData.
·Digital Video Recorders are maturing.
·A Tivo for the Olympics.
·Making music in an unlikely place.
·An online friend is still a friend.
·I love you, Google.
·Will work for food.
·KPMG doesn't get it.
·Ginger = Segway.
·It is unbeliveable what can be considered a market.

Software
·Billy Gates why do you make this possible?
·DivX to DVD.
·What the hell is Quark's problem?
·I bought Transmit.
·In OSX, write your app in the language you like.
·Transmit 2.0 beta looks good, very good.
·MT-Search updated.
·Will there ever be RSS/RDF in (X)HTML and have it validate?
·Two RSS aggregation apps.
·SquirrelMail.
·Semantic access to music.
·Real glad to see you go.
·Don't ask me for my life's story.
·Spyware sucks.
·A killer app this way comes.

U and I
·Ubiquity is a long way off.
·"Written" English, not thumb typed.
·Is RSS diet HTML?
·Dilbert stays on the UI theme.
·Dilbert does UI design.
·UI debate gets another argument.
·People salivate for "www."
·Link: generating the next-generation gui
·WarChalking, most likely an urban only phenomena.
·TrackBack
·Googlebombing Verisign.
·No, blogs won't replace CNN.
·Taxing ESPP's is an IRS racket.
·Will Verisign implode?
·Micropayments are still not there yet.
·Clients like to own everything.
·A new feature for a new year.
·Webtechniques is always interesting.
·Zoomable user interface (ZUI) technologies are percolating.
·HTML in your email is to be avoided
·The Possibility of Idealism.
·Good UI is not a race.

UI Programming
·My Flash app: Part 2
·The Flash TextArea component doesn't support 'condenseWhite.'
·Starting over.
·My flash app: Part 1
·More on learning Flash.
·Learning Flash.
·What do you think of your firstChild?
·Understanding the Eolas plugin patent.
·My HTML isn't valid, oh well.
·I still use html tables.
·iframe and Doctype follies.
·I know HTML. Phear me.
·Supporting Nav4 makes your app less durable.
·Making a month of work look easy. Good or bad?
·RedHat UI sanity.
·No HipTop for Anil. I have other reasons.
·Hey you, learn Mason.
·Obsolescence is a relative term.
·Deprecate this.
·Second O'Reilly DHTML book on the way.
·You need a crutch when your leg is broken.
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