I should have done this long ago, but just got the bee stuck in my bonnet. When I first decided to attempt to support desktop and handheld browsers without duplicating content or using browser sniffing, […]
Category: Design
The Trouble With USB Universal Charging
The recent announcement by the GSMA of broad support behind a USB-based universal mobile phone charging system raises hope of a universal charging solution, but also raises many problems that few have discussed. The first […]
W3C mobileOK hurts interoperability
I guess this is what happens when I stop involving myself in the development of Web standards. Am I the only one on the planet that understands content negotiation and how important it is to […]
Self-Documentation 001
It’s Monday, so I spent the usual 4:30 pm to 11:30 pm at the Red Cross—working on the comm van before and after the monthly disaster services meeting, discovering yet another reason why it needs […]
Laird Destroys Cushcraft
I’m trying to save Fridays for writing about Fabulous things, instead of Frustrating things, but an experience I just had necessitates postponing my daily themes a bit. At the Burlingame Red Cross office I’ve been […]
Illustrator Rant: Filled Up
I’ve spent another miserable couple of hours trying to figure out how to get Illustrator to do something simple–fill a region with a color. Something I’ve been able to do with AutoCAD since last century. […]
Illustrator Deserves Zero Stars
It started with a simple goal–to add another symbol to the family of radio repeater symbols I’m designing. But it ended in a wild goose chase through Wikipedia, geometry, and Excel’s function library. My current […]
Autodesk Gallery: Version 0.9
I’ve had two opportunities to visit the Autodesk Gallery now, and am somewhat excited about its potential. The first was at the grand opening, and the second at the November Pecha Kucha-SF meeting. The visit […]
RJ Connectors: Registered Jack=Registered Junk
I just spent a couple of hours trying to rig up a set of cables to connect my sound mixing board to a 4-way RJ-45 switch box, so I could switch my nice Heil microphone […]
ATMs Have the Wrong Number
I have long been aware that there were different telephone keypad layouts that put letters on different number buttons, but it was only this past week that I really started researching this topic in detail. […]