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Jun 29, 2007
Meta

Gone for a bit

I’ll be in Minnesota for the next week celebrating my sister’s 34th birthday and my 25th birthday. Posting may be sparse. In the mean time, here are a few albums you should listen to: The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Modest Mouse - We Were...

Jun 21, 2007
UI Design Usability

“We can’t spy…if we can’t buy!”

Slate’s posted a tremendously embarassing-looking unclassified Powerpoint deck from the CIA. The twelve pages present a sort-of who’s who guide of Powerpoint design mistakes. I don’t really fault the CIA procurement executive who created it, thoug...

Jun 19, 2007
Silverlight

ScottGu talks about Silverlight

Continuing yesterday’s Silverlight love-fest, I just found a fantastic blog post from Scott Guthrie, the General Manager of the .NET Developer Platform group, that covers virtually every aspect of Silverlight 1.1 in a good deal of depth and includ...

Jun 18, 2007
Popfly

PC World calls Popfly one of 25 websites to watch

This is always a nice way to start a week: If you haven't already discovered the world of mashups, Microsoft's Popfly is a good place to start. Mashups combine multiple Web-based sites or applications to produce all sorts of useful things, such as...