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Don’t push that button

(flickr tag: popcorn)
Like many microwaves, my microwave comes with a “Popcorn” button. Also like many other microwaves, the button doesn’t really work. I tried using it once and ended up with about 10 popped kernels. After some experimentation, I finally found a time that works (4 minutes) and have never […]

Business Objects brand identity

(flickr tag: light)
Business Objects recently redefined their brand identity and it’s interesting to see how open they have been with the way they want to be perceived and why they chose what they did. I suppose since it’s such a large company, these explanations are necessary, but it’s still a […]

Programmer-speak

This message was clearly written by programmers. There are two problems I see:

Few people actually know what “JAR Files” are.
The lack of word-wrapping makes this brief message pretty hard to scan. There’s really no excuse for not making sure that words appear as words and not as “A re” and “wa nt”.

I would re-word it […]

A great boost for creativity

(flickr tag: photogamer)

There’s a great group on Flickr called Photogamer (website). Every week they post a challenge to complete, which is essentially a photography scavenger hunt. Typically there are 5 photos you have to take over the weekend that fall into some theme. Above is my cheat sheet for this week’s […]

Flickr / Creative Commons attribution

(flickr tag: interesting)
I’ve been using photos from Flickr with Creative Commons licenses here from the beginning, but now I’m starting to wonder if I’ve been giving enough “attribution”. At first I was just linking to the original photo page and listing the Flickr tag that I used to find it […]

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