Monthly Archives: January 2010

Why the Kindle Works

What they said: http://www.marco.org/355605805. Instapaper has changed how I read anything online. I feel I give reading my focus and concentration again, and I enjoy it more now.

2010/1/27 – 6:45 am | By scott | Posted in random | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Palm Pre Preferences – a UI bug or design?

I’ve just started playing with a Palm Pre and ran across some strange UI behavior. Below are two screenshots of the Phone preferences. In the first image, the ‘turned-on’ item “Show Contact Matches” is blue. So color indicated activation. Got it. Below it is the DTMF tones item. Here, the text of the label is …

2010/1/25 – 6:06 pm | By scott | Posted in mobile | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Questions to start a project

I’ve started a list of questions to establish constraints for project work. These are targeted to web development (since that’s my area), but should be part of a larger series of questions that are asked when taking on a project. The idea is to discover the constraints the project runs under, and to force the …

2010/1/21 – 11:56 am | By scott | Posted in web design | Tagged , | Comments (0)

2010

Last post here was slightly over 2 months ago. Before that, a spate of posts around 3 months previous, and before that, almost 5 months went by. So why even bother with a blog if it’s not going to be updated? Good question. Solution: write more. I have a very specific memory of reading a …

2010/1/20 – 10:42 pm | By scott | Posted in random | Comments (0)