Two of my coworkers and I went to see the UIE Roadshow yesterday — it was a great day out of the ffice, a glorious day in DC, and a fabulous chance to get re-escited by what we do. Jared’s a one-man show, lot’s of one-liners, diversions, and now magic tricks in his show, but [...]

Summertime is coming to my house, and in the interest of keeping cool while we sleep without blowing a fortune on the AC, we decided to buy a ceiling fan.
I started at Google, which led me to a place called csnceilingfans.com - they have one of those faceted search systems where you specify features and [...]

The last post was about buying from Adobe — the process. This one’s about the weird product purchase options they give you.
From a web-guy point of view, there’s really only a few things you must have, and they start with Photoshop. Then you can add maybe Dreamweaver, Flash (if your site demands Flash) or Illustrator [...]

My wife and I like to tease each other with the nickname Grumblefuss, sort of hinting at our persnicketyness, and general intent to hold things to high standards. She’s a graphic designer, and I do e-commerce stuff, various user experience, sales flow optimization things, so the internet gives us plenty of options for grumbling. She’s [...]

Maira Kalman — an illustrator, has written a beautiful narrative on a visit to DC at Cherry Blossom tiem, to listen to the Supreme Court, and reflect on success in general. Read it, it’s wonderful.

As a wanna-be rock star, and an e-commerce industry “expert,” I spend a lot of free time thinking about the record business’s downfall.  The record industry has a unique crisis going on, and plenty of critics/supporters. Read Bob Lesfetz for a lot of opinion about what’s wrong with them. Fans will take what isn’t given [...]