Archive for May, 2004

Clean Sweep

Monday, May 24th, 2004

I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it before, but I’m totally addicted to those TV shows on HGTV and TLC like Trading Spaces, Design on a Dime, What Not to Wear, While You Were Out, Divine Design, and Clean Sweep. There are even more shows than that, but they’re all pretty much variations on […]

First comment spam

Thursday, May 20th, 2004

What a milestone–I just got my first comment spam. And like the spam I get in my inbox, it’s just as easy to delete. I just hope it doesn’t portend a future of more comment spamming.

Binky Lost

Tuesday, May 18th, 2004

Meghan’s cat, Binky, vanished sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning. We aren’t sure how he managed to get out of the house–it’s possible he got into the basement when we were doing laundry Sunday night, and if someone went out the back door, he could have snuck out (he’s very good at slipping […]

Pixel Ruler

Wednesday, May 12th, 2004

Several times in the past I’ve wanted an easy way to determine the number of pixels of something on my screen. For whatever reason, I ended up relying on estimation and trial-and-error. Why didn’t I just google “pixel ruler”? Silly me.

The very first result is just what I needed: mioplanet’s Pixel Ruler. […]

A UI challenge for you

Tuesday, May 11th, 2004

I’m working on this little challenge right now. How would you design the user interface for it?

It’s a pretty common situation: there are a large number of records of some sort, enough to really bog down the browser if you try to display them all at one time. You want to give the […]

More on Gmail

Friday, May 7th, 2004

Well, since Mike P asked, here are more of my impressions of Gmail.

The spam filtering is not as good as my Yahoo Mail account. I’m not sure how Google filters spam, but if it uses some sort of neural net, it should get better with time as more and more people report messages as […]