I'm in the middle of preparing my presentation for Highland Fling and I find myself wondering if there's a logo somewhere I can use on my first slide to tell the world that my presentation does not contain any bullet points.
I Google it. I find nothing. So I make one.
So I present to you the super-duper official No Bullet Points campaign/logo/badge.
Grab the PSD (no_bullet_points.psd.zip, 36KB), resize it, make badges, put it on your presentations, and let me know how and when you're using it by adding a comment to this post.
Hasta la vista, bullet points!
Published on March 31, 2008
in General.
I just upgraded the blog from Wordpress 2.5 RC1 to the
release version. Do let me know if you notice anything weird.
Dion Almaer writes on
Ajaxian:
If a site groks OpenID the browser should be able to pass that over without having me intervene at all. It could hide the entire login process if we came up with a microformat to let all sides know what is going on. (OpenID and OAuth in the browser?)
Singularity is going to have OpenID as the only means of logon/registration but OpenID is far from perfect; especially for state-maintaining clients like Flash, Silverlight and Ajax-based RIAs. The change of context from an application to a web site for login is a very jarring user experience.
Thinking about this, I've come to the conclusion that we're trying to solve the problem at the wrong level: this is an issue that should be handled at the browser level. And we can solve it using existing technologies like OpenID.
Imagine, for example, if the browser knew of certain OpenID providers and understood an attempt to access an OpenID provider. The browser could intercept that request and, instead of taking the user to the OpenID provider's web site, it could display a browser login dialog box (branded with the OpenID provider's logo and the OpenID logo) and relay that information back to the application.
This way, a browser that doesn't understand OpenID would just stay out of the way and the user would have the standard OpenID authentication experience of being taken to the OpenID provider's web site. A browser that does understand OpenID, however, could provide a far superior user experience by keeping the user on the same site or application and handling the login via a browser login dialog.
I wonder how difficult it would be to create this as a FireFox plugin?
Published on March 31, 2008
in General.
I just put
Singularity on Upcoming. Express your interest in the conference by watching it or marking yourself as attending.
There's also a Singularity group on Upcoming to gather together all the various local meet-ups, venues, and events. Keep an eye on that too!
(Via the Singularity Blog.)
Published on March 29, 2008
in General.
You tired, you poor, hungover masses yearning to Google... stop rubbing your eyes, Google has turned off the lights to support Earth Hour.
On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai, and Tel Aviv, will hold events to acknowledge their commitment to energy conservation.
So now that Google's gone black, will it ever go back? Apparently.
As to why we don't do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display.
So is black the new green? Read. More.
Links:
Published on March 26, 2008
in General.
My daily Adobe Updater experience: Launch Photoshop. Cringe as I see the freakin' Adobe Updater icon jumping in the dock like a crazed puppy dog. Switch over to it. See the completely unhelpful dialog above (Which file? Where should I place it? Why should I care? Leave me alone!). Force quit Adobe Updater.
Published on March 25, 2008
in General.
Moving to Wordpress 2.5 messed up my RSS feeds but I don't think it's an issue that should affect others (I had a unique setup).
Continue reading 'FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin issues with Wordpress 2.5'
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