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Election 2006 InfoGraphic Design
Tonight is a big night here in the US. It’s election night, one of my favorite nights of the year. Well, it doesn’t really happen every year, but still. I like it. Ok? Alright. This evening I was hanging out at NPR.org checking out the stats. One of the reasons I enjoy election nights is…
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Vote Today!
Just a reminder from your friend at josh.ev9.org. Do your civic duty today. Get out and vote! Yesterday I spent $14.40 in order to vote, that’s how die-hard I am. My California absentee ballot didn’t show up in the mail until Saturday afternoon, so yesterday I had to ship my ballot via ExpressMail, which arrives…
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Is Chicago the next hotbed of Digital Design?
Now, I have no hard evidence to prove or disprove my hypothesis, but I get the feeling that there’s a Design tradition brewing in the Chicagoland area. Heck, it may precede my days here. Still, before I came to Chicago, if you were to ask me (and most of my design-minded friends, I’m sure) where…
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Refocusing the Blog
So it seems I’ve turned on my most prized readership. When I started this blog, there was one group of people in particular to whom I regularly directed my writing: my family and friends. My posts of late have featured more than a normal amount of Techno-speak, which is not all that fun to read…
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New Theme
So I tried my hand at building a new theme for my blog. Let me know what you think. The actual implementation is a little buggy, but it’s getting there. All feedback is wanted, even if you think it might sound mean! Bring it on.
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Open Usability
Well here’s a pretty cool idea. The Open Usability Project connects open source developers with Usability Experts with some time and resources on their hands. Maybe if I get a little beach time* I’ll step it up. * When you’re not assigned to a project at TW, you are put on “The Beach,” and are…
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NaNoWriMo
November is NaNoWriMo! (Translation: National Novel Writing Month) Will you be participating? What shall you write about? Will I participate? How hard could 1000 words a day really be?
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Size Matters
MacBook vs. PowerbookOriginally uploaded by Martin Erpicum. I love my Powerbook. It’s tiny. Teenie Tiny. It’s the old G4 12 incher. The really little one. I am convinced that it’s the perfect size. Lately I’ve been thinking about getting a new Macbook, but only because I’d be able to use it for work because it…
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The ThoughtWorks “Sign”
Over the last 2 days, I’ve met damn near a million people at my current project. The project has been going on for a few months now, so everybody else knows everybody else, and there’s a constant rhythm that comes from people knowing what they’re supposed to be doing. Everybody works together, and each person…
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The First Day
The first day on a project is always a long one. No matter how hard one tries, there is always just so much to catch up on and learn in order to feel somewhat comfortable with the topic/software/process. This morning I was up at 4 AM, out of the house by 5, and in a…