February 2010
3 posts
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Two Decades.
I’m 20 now.  I just updated my website to reflect that. It’s weird I should be so much more grown up than I am. The real oddity is that I feel my decision yesterday to switch from Safari to Chrome had more impact on my life. Keeping it nerdy since February 26 1990.
Feb 26th
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Dear FLOSS Community: Stop Using ccHost.
Open Font Library sucks. Open Clip Art Library sucked (they just switched to the Aiki Framework though). Any project hosted on ccHost invariably sucks no matter how conceptually awesome they are. Why? I can give you three reasons why: Clarity Previews Interest These really are all aspects of the same reason, let me explain. Clarity means when I visit your site I want to immediately know what...
Feb 26th
Blackboard Academic Suite is My Nemesis
Blackboard is the worst piece of academic software I’ve ever seen and a perfect case for standards based design and procedural enhancement. The software as it stands is a monolithic mess of tacked on features and different methodologies. The discussion boards are constructed in such a way to raise a wall against true dialogue. They, of course, are programmed in obtrusive javascript and...
Feb 2nd