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- How do people read three digit numbers of subscriptions? I have around 40 and already consider it messy at times.
- Links to iPod secrets at 2lmc.
- Everyone writes about Google e-Mail. Privacy issues and control-freakery aside – perhaps this will finally offer e-mail as it should be: E-mail that you don't need to file. With a folder per person, say, but rather with a really good and fast find feature (that Apple's Mail sadly still lacks).
- Matt Gemmell writes nothing new on designing software for usability. A well written piece summing up all those important points. So the next time someone asks you may as well save your breath and point them there.
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g asks people to stop using biological terminology. Good point. I hadn't thought about that. Certainly
survival of the fittest
is used to support the superiority of the most popular one in that context. People like to consider themselves 'fit'. - Matt even puts tool tips, skins and preferences where they belong and points out that we frequently don't recognise our own bad ideas as what they are as well as other traps. Strangely, I still think that I'd find working on user interfaces might be very interesting. Strange.
- Ikea beating Microsoft in terms of the owner's value. And all of that without a monopoly.
- When drilling holes and indulging in similar chores recently I thought that when growing up Germans graduate from Fischertechnik to Fischer Dübel, while Scandinavians graduate from Lego to Ikea. All right, Lego is Danish while Ikea is Swedish, so I am cheating a bit here.
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I have always preferred Lego, Scandinavia rules, Sweden in particular. Those who don't assemble furniture full time, go to play guitar. They rock: Mando Diao, The Hives, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Teenage Idols. [And I haven't even talked about the elks yet.]
- 75% of these will play at the Hurricane Festival in June. The Pixies, Bowie, The Cure, Franz Ferdinand, Air, Mogwai, BRMC, PJ Harvey, Jet, Ash and many more will as well. I simply have to go there.
- Our new flatmate Daniel moved in yesterday, he said Swedish films are good. I don't know too many – just a few Danish and a Norwegian one (Elling).
- Also a girl from the flat above us came to complain about the constant moving, hammering and drilling. Frankly, we aren't that loud, it's just a lot to do and it wasn't even past ten. Her visit seems to have been cause by me hanging my posters which required quite a few nails. Now my room is finished. Since I removed the empty boxes it actually looks nice and large.
