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2010 Year in Review
January 1, 2011No Comments
Seems to be the trend these days to ‘review’ the year, and since I am nothing if not a trend-follower (snicker)… Here goes. In 2010 I: Got married – well, we had our official wedding, anyway Shipped Office 2010 and joined a new team at work Started teaching Web Design at Issaquah High School Learned [...]
Brave New World
August 14, 20091 Comment
I need to read Brave New World immediately.
Assumptions Make Life Simpler
August 13, 2009No Comments
Chris Greening, the developer of iPhone Sudoku Grab, explains how it works. I find this section the most interesting: One of the things that makes recognizing Sudoku puzzles an easier task than most image processing/recognition problem is that it is a highly constrained problem – a standard Sudoku puzzle is going to be a square [...]
Software Hatred
July 23, 2009No Comments
Great insight from Jeff Atwood: One of the (many) unfortunate side effects of choosing a career in software development is that, over time, you learn to hate software. I mean really hate it. With a passion. Take the angriest user you’ve ever met, multiply that by a thousand, and you still haven’t come close to [...]
Dates in Posts Fixed
July 13, 2009No Comments
Just made a minor fix to the site… I noticed that dates weren’t showing up for some posts. Took me about 5 minutes to figure out that the WordPress the_date() function had changed: When there are multiple posts on a page published under the SAME DAY, the_date() only displays the date for the first post [...]
Follow Up On Outlook HTML+CSS Post
July 13, 20091 Comment
Note: I work for Microsoft, in the Office division, but I don’t work in or with the Outlook team. I don’t have any specific knowledge about their decisions or plans, and this post is based only my own experience here at Microsoft. My post on Outlook’s HTML+CSS rendering generated a bit of buzz, due in [...]
On Intelligent Interfaces
July 9, 2009No Comments
Mencius Moldbug on why Wolfram Alpha shouldn’t have a natural language-based interface: You know that when you type “two cups of flour and two eggs” (which now works) you are looking for a Nutrition Facts label. It is only Stephen Wolfram’s giant electronic brain which has to run ten million lines of code to figure this [...]
Love
June 26, 2009No Comments
Too incredibly brilliant not to share: http://batteriesfeelincluded.blogspot.com/2009/05/309.html
Teachers Are Important
June 26, 2009No Comments
Danah Boyd on teacher involvement outside the classroom. I benefited tremendously from this. http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/05/27/when_teachers_a.html.
Outlook, Email, and CSS
June 26, 200911 Comments
Update July 13, 2009: Thanks to some comments, I’ve got new links and minor updates in the post now. Note: I work for Microsoft, in the Office division, but I don’t work in or with the Outlook team. I don’t have any specific knowledge about their decisions or plans, and this post is based only [...]
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