Well, we're heading off to San Francisco and the GDC today. I found out at the last minute that Enterprise Rental Car was only open until 10 PM so I had to switch things over to Dollar, which is open 24 hours (and costs about $30 more).

Anyway, blogging may be relegated to a secondary task for the next few days, but then again I'd like to be able to blog about my experience in "real-time" so we'll see how that goes.

§62 · March 9, 2005 · GDC, Life, Technology · 1 comment ·


Netscape is back with a Beta browser based on Firefox 1.0: http://browser.netscape.com/nsb/

§60 · March 4, 2005 · Software, Technology · Comments Off on Netscape Re-Enters The Fray ·


My rant about Acrobat Reader made me think a bit about user interfaces and designing improvements. Read the rest of this entry ...

§57 · March 4, 2005 · Software, Technology · Comments Off on User Interface Feedback ·


I used to love Hotmail for its convenience, but is it just me or has Hotmail really become sucky lately? Even though they recently gave everybody a large amount of message space (250 MB I think), to compete with Gmail, I've begun to experience numerous problems with the rest of the service. Read the rest of this entry ...

§58 · March 3, 2005 · Technology · Comments Off on Hotmail Gone Down the Tubes ·


I used to have a lot of respect for Adobe. Back in the mid-to-late 90s, Adobe FrameMaker was seriously considered a leading desktop publishing tool, Adobe Photoshop was the premiere choice for image editing, and Adobe's Acrobat Reader was a great little piece of free software (at a time when not much professional-quality software was downloadable for free). However, time has not been kind to the Acrobat Reader. Read the rest of this entry ...

§56 · March 2, 2005 · Software, Technology, Tips · Comments Off on Improving Adobe Reader ·