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Archive for July, 2008

Quasi Chefs oh so amuse me!

Someone keeps popping up like a bad penny. While what I do now is very satisfying although not terribly financially rewarding (ie, being nice to people means you usually give too much away and not charge for it). I long for, or rather my ego longs for the good old days or rather the egotistical [...]

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A recent quote I like about PowerPoint

“Power corrupts; PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.”
—Edward Tufte
Gosh, I just loathe PowerPoint. In the last ten seminars I have attended, almost every single one gave us handouts of the PowerPoint slides and then proceeded to drone on reading directly from the slides. Yes I can read apparently only at the second grade reading level. (and so [...]

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Music on web sites

I was recently asked to put music on a restaurant website, I explained why if you do do this you should have the option of asking whether people want the sound on or off before entering the site. The client who I have since sent off to harass someone else, I recently let go because [...]

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