I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system — it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes. Whenever anyone asks, my advice is to stay with Windows XP (and to purchase new systems with XP preinstalled).
Ouch.
So our little slanted, incomplete, biased, and
selective theologies are the best we can do. Given how our theologies are
formed, it’s a constant wonder to me that people are surprised and even angered
when they meet someone whose ideas about God differ from their own. I’d be more
surprised if I met someone who shared my own beliefs, point by point, all the
way to the end. Now that would be strange.
I’m a fan of arguments in general, because they aid in understanding your own opinion and the reasoning that leads to other opinions. Linus Torvalds (of Linux fame) recently said much the same thing; “heated” discussion is oftentimes better discussion.
But arguing a point and being angry at the other side are two different things, and I must admit to falling prey to anger over not just theological issues, but technological ones as well. REST versus
I got tired of the old design not working in Internet Explorer, so this is the new design. I’ll probably revise it more as I get some time; the spacing on a couple elements is still a little too close for comfort, but all in all I like it.
“The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge. It will be a place for parents and children to share pleasant times in one another’s company; a place for teachers and pupils to discover greater ways of understanding and education. Here the older generation can recapture the nostalgia of days gone by, and the younger generation can savor the challenge of the future. Here will be the wonders of Nature and Man for all to see and understand. Disneyland will be based upon and dedicated to the ideals, the dream and hard facts that have created America. And it will be uniquely equipped to dramatize these dreams and facts and send them forth as a source of courage and inspiration to all the world. Disneyland will be sometimes a fair, an exhibition, a playground, a community center, a museum of living facts, and a showplace of beauty and magic. It will be filled with accomplishments, the joys and hopes of the world we live in. And it will remind us and show us how to make these wonders part of our own lives.”
One of the hardest things about having Mikayla has been that Sonja and I haven’t been to Disneyland in nearly two years. That’s by far the longest time I’ve gone without since sixth grade.
There is a small problem here, but it’s not with his argument, which is sound. Rather, it’s in the fact that he dismisses the question of if global warming is real. Yes, we can all be mistaken. But wouldn’t it be nice if we could be at least reasonably sure, and make our chances of a happy face better?
When they stopped and turned, they were standing a couple hundred feet from the lineup below. There was the original Highway Gothic; British Transport, the road typeface used in the United Kingdom; Univers, found in the Paris Metro and on Apple computer keyboards; DIN 1451, used on road and train signage in Germany; and also Helvetica, the classic sans-serif seen in modified versions on roadways in a number of European countries. “There was something wrong with each one,” Meeker remembers. “Nothing gave us the legibility we were looking for.” The team immediately realized that it would have to draw something from scratch.
It’s the little things that make all the difference; this is a neat article about how the font on road signs is changing, and why.
Oh, and…
Market research showed that many consumers identified the old AT&T with attributes like “monolithic” and “bureaucratic” — an image problem it hoped to fix, in part, with a new typeface.
Maybe they should have tried to fix that problem by not being either of those things?
Gabe and Deborah had a party last week and part of it was a Iron Chef-style cooking competition with the secret ingredient of Peanut Butter. I made Ice Cream, loosely based on this recipe, but modified for size and the ingredients I had.
It turned out amazing, and (as you can tell from the title) won first place, so I thought I’d put it here for posterity.
That’s my problem with Apple’s non-maximizing maximize button. Allowing users to maximize any window to a monitor has its problems, to be sure. But Apple’s method of forcing users to deal with more windows by preventing maximization is not good user interface design. It is fundamentally and deeply flawed. Users don’t want to deal with the mental overhead of juggling multiple windows, and I can’t blame them: neither do I. Designers should be coming up with alternative user interfaces that minimize windowing, instead of forcing enforcing arbitrary window size limits on the user for their own good.
Spoken like someone who has yet to embrace Exposé. Flick to the corner, flick to the window.
I once read that Christianity began as a religious movement in Judea, moved to Greece and became a philosophy, moved to Europe and became a feudalistic government, then came to America and became a business.
I like that a lot. Sad, but true. Sad because it’s true.