From the “A great victory was won today” Dept. So after after more than 6 hours of deliberation, I finally convinced the team that my model for inter-application parameter passing was the correct, most user friendly implementation. It was a good day for your “Friendly Neighborhood Usability Guru”

From the “It has begun” Dept. Wendy and Henry got married on Saturday. It was a glorious day. The weather was perfect. No screw ups in the ceremony. It was great to see the two of them get hitched. I gave my pictures to Kevin. When he is done, he will have it uploaded to…

From “It’s been a hard week” Dept. I’ve been looking forward to the weekend—as I’m sure that all of you have. Wendy and Henry commit their marital nuptuals tomorrow—should be a fun time. I’m tired—seriously stressed the passed few days. I’ve been doing Quality Assurance on the applications that we are building; confirming business functionality.…

From the “Wishful thinking.” Dept. What would be perfect right now would be for Infonec to call and say my mobo is ready to be picked up. I could assemble my computer and burn it in tomorrow while I’m at the wedding. -T

From the “Congrats to Collin and Cheryl” Dept. Cheryl and Collin got engaged last week while vacationing in Maui. Congratulations are in order! Unfortunately Collin didn’t consult the boyz and he ended up buying a 1.32 ct. daimond engagement ring. Punk. How are the boyz and I suppose to “manage“ the expectations of our women…

From the “I want one too” dept. I’ve been asking a lot of questions about Kevin’s HipTop from Fido Canada.. I want one. If they come up with a CompactFlash card slot with it…it’s a definite purchase. As for the overcompensating thing…I should be one to say…hell, I just built a dual cpu system (which…

From the “We are all Animals” Dept. Jen and I had a great time at the zoo. If we had gone earlier, the animals would have been more active. Jen was impressed, as was I. We really liked the prarie dogs. Two were sleeping on top of each other, much like Jen and I do…

From the “Computer woes” Dept. The anticipation is killing me. I picked up my new video card (Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro Ultimate). The neat thing about this card is that the board is completely fankless; thus, no noise. An added bonus is that the card is highly overclockable. Wicked. Unfortunately, it did no come with…

From the “sad and blue—no dualie” Dept. I knew it was too good to last. At 8:45 pm this evening, my computer refused to boot – right after installing a new sound card (an Audigy2). The power supply seems fine. The mobo is DOA though. Man, first a fried CPU and now a fried mobo.…

From the “Information Visualization” Dept. I was chatting with some designers today and we started talking about next generation interfaces. One designer was thinking about 3D User Interfaces and how that would be a cool way of abstracting information display. I disagreed. My argument goes like this: Humans don’t see in 3D, but rather something…