I read this account of how it feels to lose your iPod with a sickening recognition of how that feels. (Well, except the part about Coldplay. Ew.) The one Doug gave me hasn’t responded to any of the triage I’ve tried, and I’m not keen to shell out major bucks to have the hard drive […]

The remainder of the UI10 conference was pretty great. I did a bit of hobbing and nobbing with usability geeks and learned a ton about Information Architecture. One of the coolest aspects was realizing that there are so many people doing pretty much what I do at all sorts of organizations, both corporate and non-. […]

That make me smile — the happenstance that causes They Might Be Giants’ “Hovering Sombrero” play while I’m noodling around online, and while my KoL familiar happens to be Mr. Floaty, the 23-pound Hovering Sombrero.
God, I get ever more geekish with every respiration.
Ted Leo, X, XTC, Tom Waits, X-ray Spex, Andrew Bird, Sleater-Kinney, Interpol, Wilco, […]

“Out for delivery.”
Yep, my saucy new iBook and AirPort Extreme base station (X-Treme, like the white bread) and iSkin keyboard protecter so schmutz and crumbage don’t grit up the keyboard are all arriving at Mummersylvan’s mailbox today. The workday will be that much more grueling, and the slaking of my excitement will be further delayed […]

Sad to say, but this crazy Kingdom of Loathing game has kind of taken over my free time. Not only have I been spending way too many hours playing it, I’ve created three different characters so I can keep playing once I’ve reached my ca. 40 turns/character/day limit (as well as send various items […]