Google Wave Input

I’ve been using Google Wave for a few weeks now as a beta user. I read an article about a survey Google put out to gather user feedback. The questions seemed… very … milk-toasty. As in, one of the reasons for liking Wave was that it is a shiny new toy? Er? Having released the [...]

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Flip the Script: Bottom-Up Web Development

“Readers don’t know what they need or what they want. I’m here to give them what I know they need,” the editor said. “Actually, in the reader survey, they told us exactly what they want in the newsletter,” the marketing guy said. I was not only watching two stubborn egos in a death match neither [...]

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I Only Need One Percent

Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent inspiration. -Thomas Edison The Great Fingernail Incident of 1981: My friend Amber asked me to hold her 10-speed bike by the back wheel so that she could put the chain back on. As she went to do so the front wheel turned, the bike twisted, and my fingernail [...]

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Love, Part Three: Risk

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First let go of life. Finally, take a step without feet. -Rumi Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about [...]

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Music Find: Cyndi Lauper’s The Body Acoustic

Tonight I found myself thinking about the song True Colors by Cyndi Lauper. Actually, I’m pretty sure the song itself was written by Prince. She’s So Unusual was the very first CD I ever had, purchased in 1985 along with our family’s very first CD player. A very old, good friend of mine used to [...]

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People I Wanted to Be

When I was younger there were several people – well, ok, characters and/or actresses – that I wanted to “be like.” This phase started when I was probably 11… I can’t say when it ended, really. I just stopped thinking that emulating or wishful thinking were good things. This is  a really weird mix of [...]

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My kids… have cell phones

I used to think giving kids cell phones was akin to baiting them with nicotine addiction. Here, kiddies. Have a gadget. Start small. Gateway drug. So 5 months ago, when I walked into the AT&T store and let them pick out the phone they wanted (within reason) I … well, I wasn’t unaware of the [...]

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Getting Older

When I was eight years old I moved to England. I entered the third grade not knowing how to write cursive, but almost everyone in my class already knew how to do it. I had to use the images posted around the room of the correctly formed cursive letters for the better part of two [...]

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