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Entries from December 2007

Twitter Updates for 2007-12-18

December 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Back at the apt after a long day at work. Looking forward to playing with my blog or playing around with Hulu. Just got my Hulu beta acc … #
Catching up with email and wishing that someone will soon reinvent the email client. There has to be a better way to self-organize an inbox. #

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Favorite insight from Designing Interactions

December 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Core design skills as described in “Designing Interactions” by Bill Moggridge:
• To synthesize a solution from all of the relevant constraints, understanding everything that
will make a difference to the result.
• To frame, or reframe, the problem and objective.
• To create and envision alternatives.
• To select from those alternatives, knowing intuitively how to choose the best […]

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What a mess

December 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Looks like I’ve gone overboard with all of the plugins clogging up the side panels. I have to get around to cleaning up the site design to improve the signal to noise ratio. The goal is still to wire in as many connections to the web sites that I touch on a regular basis so […]

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I think I get Twitter now

December 14th, 2007 · No Comments

But I’m still not twittering.
I wanted to look into another way to capture and record what I’m doing throughout the day in order to get some more insight into the Twitter phenomenon. Call me lazy, but I would rather not have to bother with posting twitter messages all day long.
So I decided to focus […]

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