July 2008
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12MP Point and Shoot on Woot →
Today marks my first woot purchase. I’m a fan of the site and have been itching for a decent point and shoot digital camera for a while. This one might not meet my demands, lacking an optical viewfinder and apparently eating batteries faster than cookie monster eats… oh… never mind.
$80 is too inexpensive to say no to. The 720p video recording mode might help to counterbalance...
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iPhone 3G
It’s been a week since I last posted.
On the night of July 10th, I set my alarm for 6:00 am.
On July 11th my alarm did not sound. I awoke at 7:30 am. To this day I’m unsure what happened, but all the same I’m proud of myself for somehow getting up unassisted before noon. I proceeded to hit up every local AT&T store. Each had only received enough phones to satisfy half of...
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Skitch as a site prototyping utility
This is part two. Design is not my forte, but I’m making an effort to understand it better. I appreciate aesthetics as a means of optimizing the end user’s experience. I am continually tweaking and rethinking elements of my current and previous failed theme designs. For this reason, an application that lets me annotate potential alterations and sketch out design revisions is...
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Twitter as a collaborative narration tool →
Welcome to part one of a two part series, wherein I explain the rationale behind my using conventional web services to unconventional ends. Enter Great Expectations: A Tale of Two Twitters, a heap of textual nonsense coauthored by myself and Hao Lian.
I don’t tweet much. Most tweets are insignificant blips: mundane tasks logged for the enjoyment of whom? I have no idea. Composing...
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Rethinking tumblr's customize interface
Tumblr’s customize page, in its current state, isn’t very usable. Editing a custom theme within the 180-pixel-high textbox provided is painful. I suspect most, if not all, theme designers exclusively edit their templates externally. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Tumblr’s interface cannot be held to the same standards as single-purposed, desktop-class text editing...
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