Archive for August, 2006
Not Good Enough (Part I)
Tim recently wrote an entry where he mentioned that sometimes he feels like everyone bashes MS. And he’s right, they do. I was thinking about this, and for all his fanboy <3 for Microsoft, he’s right; the Evil Empire gets unnecessarily singled out for a lot of crap. But computers still suck.
What is it good for?
I was thinking about Lisp again today, and I was reminded of a popular Edwin Starr song of the 1970s: War. I think the Lisp version would go something like this… “Lisp! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin.” Obviously, this isn’t true. Paul Graham would disagree with this obviously, as would the many [...]
Design: The Big and the Small
I’m working on a UI design for a web app, so I decided I would brainstorm ideas here. Logout: Top right. Almost always the logout button seems to go there. Seeing as the x to close windows goes there and the opposite corner is generally accepted as the common starting point for Western viewers, having [...]