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Monthly Archives: August 2005

Bench (The Director’s Cut)

12-Aug-05

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Review: Garden State

11-Aug-05

Suffice it to say, I had a review here… but I wasn’t satisfied with my writing. So I’ll tell you this: I enjoyed _Garden State_ the movie, but I’m not sure if that was more because of Natalie Portman’s acting and the fact that I’ve been smitten with her ever since I bumped into her […]

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Preferences and Abandoning the Culture of Control

11-Aug-05

In [The Problem with Preferences][1], Jason Fried writes:
[1]: http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/getting_real_the_problem_with_preferences_interface_design_and_the_customer_experience.php
> At 37signals we’re pretty anti-preference/setting. When we Get Real we try to make informed decisions for the people who use our products so they don’t have to think about preferences or settings or adjustments — they can just use the product and know that the […]

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Kudos & Shoutouts

10-Aug-05

I talk a lot about [37signals][1] here, despite the fact that I could consider them a competitor. In reality, however, any number of agile, small-to-medium development firms can coexist in this industry; so many potential clients exist that the idea of competition is mostly a red-herring for the most creative. (I’ve heard the term _coopetition_ […]

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Evolution is Del.icio.us!

09-Aug-05

Got Safari or Firefox? [This little script][1] offers yet another evolution on bookmarking with [del.icio.us][2]: I type `dl tag1 tag2 tag3` in the address bar of my browser, and _wham-whiz-bang!_, the current page is added to my bookmarks. I’d been using [dashlicious][3] previously - but this is even _more_ convenient!
[1]: http://www.zzamboni.org/brt/2005/08/07/52/
[2]: http://del.icio.us/unquiet
[3]: http://protagonist.co.uk/dashLicious/

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