T.M. always posts such interesting things. If only I could convince him to publish an RSS feed.

Technorati is habit-forming.

Does adhering to the well-known Three-Click Rule when designing web sites actually help users? [This UIE Article]1 indicates that we might be putting too much effort toward reducing clicks. “However, these complaints aren’t actually about the clicks. They are really complaints about failing to find something. When users find what they want they don’t complain about number of clicks."

irritus: Idea for cereal

Since the Fusionary weblog is about to go online, I thought I’d remind myself that there’s a right and wrong way to do a corporate weblog. Robert Scoble’s Corporate Weblog Manifesto is a good place to start.

Moved a bunch of stuff around today, before I saw that some folks (including Robert Daeley, author of PHPosxom) had linked to my post about PHPetal earlier. The permalink for the original post was https://www.jackbaty.com/index.php?entry=/geek/untitled.txt. In the meantime I renamed the /geek directory to /dev. This of course broke the links. I’m learning the joys of mod_rewrite and this little bit fixed things right up. RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^entry=/geek/untitled.txt RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.

I worry that I’m often seen as too willing to compromise on projects, saying “Ship it! It’s good enough!” This might seem like a tendency toward the mediocre, but it’s not. Sometimes, good enough is just that, and we can make it better tomorrow. Doc Searls, with credit to David Sifry refers to this as POGE: The Principle of Good Enough. “Without POGE we would have no TCP/IP, no HTTP, no HTML, no SMTP.

From The Cranky User: “…navigating pages is all about identifying the objects that have functions, figuring out what those functions are, and then hitting the button as hard and as often as you can in the hope that it’ll do something.”

From DevX: An article describing programming in the creative terms that it deserves. “Writing code is an act of creativity. It isn’t science and it isn’t engineering, although programmers are happy to apply science and engineering to the creative process, when possible. Therefore to be a programmer one has to be highly creative. This is one of the reasons

Mary sent me a link to this wonderful panoramic image of the world at night as seen from space. Funny how the lights in all of the other countries look just like ours.

I’ve seen Undercover Brother twice, and it’s still funny.

Tori Amos is musical again! I was worried and a little disappointed after Strange Little Girls. Never fear, Scarlet’s Walk is fabulous.