the self-discovery adventure of brett taylor Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:31:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What shall we do with the drunken save button? So floppy disks are totally redundant. Very few new computers are coming with floppy drives. Ask a five-year-old kid what each of these things is: In my totally unscientific research, I asked a mother of a six-year-old if her little boy would know ... /archives/2008/07/24/save-icon-confusion-is-reverting/ I'm a heavy RSS user; one of those 4% of web users who read their content via a news reader. I'm a Google Reader user myself, but in the past I've tried many feed readers: I even registered both FeedDemon (for Windows) and NetNewsWire (for Mac OS X); both have ... /archives/2008/06/18/lifehack-rss-reader-fu-heavy-traffic-folder/ Test lab bunny Uploaded to Flickr by Andricongirl. I would love someone forever if they bought me this! So cute, so awesome! /archives/2008/03/11/test-lab-bunny/ A winner is me! My 100 CC Postcards Uploaded to Flickr by Glutnix. My photo "Carpeted Commons" won the Creative Commons Swag Photo Contest for 2007, and here was my prize: 100 postcards with my photo on them! w00t! /archives/2008/02/13/a-winner-is-me-my-100-cc-postcards/ Recently because of a permissions issue with my public folder on GlutBlack, my black MacBook, I created a new administrator user with the intention of porting all the important data from my old user to the new user. I've had a few hassles doing so, but I've learned a ... /archives/2008/01/24/quicksilver-is-dead-long-live-spotlight/ I was discussing with a friend of mine how much I enjoy breakfast when I make time to have it, so here's my top tips for changing breakfast to the best meal of the day: Make time to have it You can't have breakfast if you don't allow yourself time to prepare ... /archives/2008/01/21/overclock-your-breakfast/ A Roadmap to Spectacular GTD Failure · The Cranking Widgets Blog (tagged: gtd productivity organization advice toread tips lifehacks humor work) New Zealand Congestion Reporting Avoid traffic delays, roadworks and congestion; and don't be late for work when you register for traffic news alerts ... /archives/2007/11/20/delicious-2007-nov-19/ The Nerd Handbook A handbook written for the lucky individuals out there who are in a relationship with a nerd of their own(tagged: geek nerd psychology relationships funny sociology blog) macosxhints.com - A table of special Apple symbols and their values (tagged: apple ... /archives/2007/11/13/delicious-2007-nov-12/ Portal Papercraft Tribute So great... I want to build it :D(tagged: awesome cute gaming fun origami papercraft videogames portal valve) Defining your World: All About Constants - TalkPHP A really good round-up of all the info about constants in php(tagged: php work webdev ... /archives/2007/11/06/delicious-2007-nov-05/ Fakeproject Corporation of America: Graf Paper (Graffiti Writers Coloring Book) (tagged: art books comics culture design diy fun graffiti inspiration humor illustration) Macworld: Secrets: Excerpt: Getting your Mac ready for OS X 10.5, Page 1 (tagged: guide howto macosx mac osx reference software ... /archives/2007/10/30/delicious-2007-oct-29/ I haven't tested Gmail's new IMAP support thoroughly yet, but I'm pretty excited about it. POP does have its problems and limitations, specifically Gmail's 450-messages-per-check-for-new-mail. And the fact that sometimes you'll get duplicates of the same mail, and the fact that when you change file or delete something in your ... /archives/2007/10/25/gmail-gets-imap-support/ Starslip Crisis (tagged: @webcomic comics webcomic webcomics humor comic daily scifi funny comedy fiction fun) Videos of people using assistive technology | 456 Berea Street A fantastic collection of videos featuring the physically challenged overcoming their disabilities with assistive technology! Amazing!(tagged: accessibility blog ... /archives/2007/10/23/delicious-2007-oct-22/ Creating pins in Illustrator | Veerle's blog How to make nice looking circular faux pin-on badges in Illustrator...(tagged: illustrator tutorial design howto tutorials illustration pins adobe art blog buttons graphics icons) Victor Tsaran: "An Introduction to Screen Readers" - Yahoo! Video (tagged: accessibility ... /archives/2007/10/16/delicious-2007-oct-15/ Particletree » Visualizing Fitts’s Law Introduction to Fitt's Law visually, for designers. Makes sense to me.(tagged: design usability interface gui ui hci tutorial webdesign web webdev webdevelopment accessibility article computers css development engineering form) Add me to your del.icio.us Network | All Glutnix's bookmarks /archives/2007/10/09/delicious-2007-oct-08/ A List Apart: Articles: If I Told You You Had a Beautiful Figure... A microformat for 'figures' -- pictures and diagrams and photos -- on web pages, and javascript to improve their appearances(tagged: css design images javascript layout web webdev work webdevelopment standards webstandards) ... /archives/2007/10/02/delicious-2007-oct-01/ The Big List of RPG Plots, by S. John Ross A great honking list of common plots for role playing games. Could be useful for interactive game development, including interactive fiction.(tagged: rpg games writing plot reference gaming roleplaying design fantasy creativity education fiction article interactivefiction if ... /archives/2007/09/25/delicious-2007-sep-24/ Advice for Students: Taking Notes that Work - lifehack.org The best article I've ever seen on notetaking. Will be showing this to many people at work!(tagged: productivity education notetaking learning howto lifehacks school notes guide hacks cool article work) 5 Steps to Stop ... /archives/2007/09/18/delicious-2007-sep-17/ Mayang's Free Texture Library Wow, a great resource of textures and graphics... huge resolutions too!(tagged: textures design patterns free reference resources stock backgrounds drawing graphics photography) 10 Micro-Blogging Tools Compared Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr, Jaiku, MySay, Hictu, Moodmill, Frazr, IRateMyDay, Emotionr all compared.(tagged: tech ... /archives/2007/09/11/delicious-2007-sep-10/ After reading Andy Oram's post on O'Reilly Radar What comes after the information age, I was struck by the fact that because I'm a tutor, I might be in the right industry! Andy makes a case that because we have ubiquitous free documentation, in the form of text-files, wikis, videos, how-to ... /archives/2007/09/06/the-age-of-expertise/ 16 Core Observations of Social Design - Bokardo 2. Technology doesn’t change us very fast. 4. The primary use of the Internet is communication. 8. Over-similarity can lead to group-think. 12. People usually compare themselves to those in their social group, not society at large.(tagged: design ... /archives/2007/09/04/delicious-2007-sep-03/ Nikon SLR Learning Center Take better photos(tagged: art camera community design education educational learning flickr photo photos tutorial tips nikon photography slr) How I made my presentations a little better | 43 Folders How to make slides...(tagged: 43folders advice article business career communication ... /archives/2007/08/28/delicious-2007-aug-27/ How JavaScript is Slowing Down the Web (And What To Do About It) five steps to making your script widgets not remake the world wide wait(tagged: advice ajax analysis article blogs browser code coding javascript performance webdesign widget webdev blog web js) The ... /archives/2007/08/21/delicious-2007-aug-20/ Doin' it, delegatin' it, deferrin' it. LOL: David Allen has a posse. 43'F". Inbox 0(tagged: amusing awesome funny gtd humor davidallen posse 43folders) The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web A neat collection of text effects... nice stuff(tagged: photoshop tutorial ... /archives/2007/08/14/delicious-2007-aug-13/ So I've got this goal of working in Japan for at least 6 months by 2014. That's the big goal. To take a big step like that is a bit much, so to break it down a little: Read, write and converse in Japanese at an intermediate level by the end of ... /archives/2007/08/13/can-i-are-be-turning-japanese-i-rly-think-so/ My biggest gripe I've ever had with my Mac experience has been with my favorite of applications: Firefox. My place of employment, Natcoll, uses an internal proxy to 'measure and protect' bandwidth usage. Because I take my MacBook to and from work, I have to tell my mac to ... /archives/2007/08/12/firefox-on-mac-osx-fixed/ Mike’s Musings » Creating a Microformat Action User Script (Basic) How to make a microformat interpreter plugin for the Firefox extension Operator.(tagged: microformat operator firefox javascript microformats) Bibleref Markup A microformat that specifies how to make references to the bible(tagged: bible microformat translation ... /archives/2007/08/07/delicious-2007-aug-06/ Corner.js (now with IE 6/7 support) The easiest way to add rounded corners and other effects to images only using CSS class names and Javascript. Seems to do funky things with SVG and VML... wow(tagged: ajax code cool corners css design dev development webdesign roundedcorners library ... /archives/2007/07/10/delicious-2007-jul-09/ Yesterday I attended a LAN party some of the youth group kids from church were holding.  They planned to play Starcraft, a famous real-time-strategy game (Zerg Rush!).  Now if you've spent any significant time around me you'll know I suck at RTS games.  The only RTS I actually enjoyed was ... /archives/2007/07/05/lan-party-music-maestro/ Google Talk Gadget Because it asked me if I would add it to Delicious... weird.. but neat, I guess...(tagged: bookmarklet browser client communication cool daily firefox flash) Add me to your del.icio.us Network | All Glutnix's bookmarks /archives/2007/07/03/delicious-2007-jul-02/ Space Man Candy Sticks, Redesigned... UGH. Uploaded to Flickr by Glutnix. Carousel, the new owners of the kiwiana-status brand "Space Man Candy Sticks" have ruined an iconic New Zealand brand by redesigning the packaging. WTF were they thinking!? Especially because they put a ginga in the deep vacuum of space without him first ... /archives/2007/07/02/space-man-candy-sticks-redesigned-ugh/