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Entries from October 2005

Nielsen’s Weblog Usability Design Mistakes

October 17th, 2005 · 12 Comments

Jakob Nielsen just came out with his list of the Top 10 Design Mistakes for Weblogs. I have to admit that I’ve probably made most of these at one time or another, but I was surprised that I actually didn’t make some of them. However, I’m not sure I’m that concerned, since this [...]

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Tags: General · Personal

Validation for my Refined Palate

October 17th, 2005 · 3 Comments

I’m psyched! In the latest issue of Westword, Jason Sheehan, my favorite foodie writer, reviewed my favorite local sushi place, the Fontana Sushi in Littleton. And he loves it. (See this previous blog entry declaring my own love for the place.) I really had no idea that Fontana was serving such [...]

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Tags: General · Personal

Annual Home Invasion

October 15th, 2005 · 3 Comments

Another good thing about living in Colorado is the lack of insects. I’m constantly amazed when I visit some other part of the country and there’s a deafening wall of sound coming from somewhere that sounds like a metalworks factory has been plopped down in the middle of the backyard, only to have explained to [...]

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Tags: Whining

Another Distraction

October 13th, 2005 · 6 Comments

So… this video iPod thing. I don’t get it. Does anyone really want to watch TV shows on a 2.5″ handheld screen? I suppose it might be cool if you ride the bus to work every day and want to catch last night’s Daily Show, but I really don’t see that function [...]

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Tags: Television · Whining

Thar She Blows!

October 11th, 2005 · Comments Off

Enough time has passed and enough episodes watched for me to comment properly on the three new network “alien invasion” shows: NBC’s Surface, CBS’s Threshold, and ABC’s Invasion. There’s a clear winner among the three, at least for me.

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Tags: Television

Escaping the Past

October 10th, 2005 · Comments Off

This weekend I saw the latest comic-book-to-movie blockbuster, A History of Violence. (Yes, though they haven’t advertised it as such, it is based on a DC comic book, err… “graphic novel”.) It’s a taut little character study (of not just the main character, but his family as well) of the type that I [...]

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Tags: Comic Books & Strips · Movies