http://www.fishingforwater.net ... altogether just a drop in the sea ... Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:55:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm going to be on vacation for the next two weeks, driving and camping all around the Pacific Northwest. I'll be visiting Portland and Seattle, as well as Olympic, Mt. Ranier, Redwood, and Crater Lake National Parks. I'll be trying to document my travels fairly well via Twitter. (I'm ... http://www.fishingforwater.net/archives/115 Go Cornell! I guess some kids (ok, PhD students and CS profs) in Upson Hall are working on this distributed system for searching .torrents. Cubit creates alongside BitTorrent a lightweight peer-to-peer network designed from the ground up to enable rapid and accurate approximate searches. It performs the searches without relying on any ... http://www.fishingforwater.net/archives/114 1. This video is beautiful. 2. This woman is awesome. (And so is her company.) 3. This Flash tutorial was written by me. (See how I snuck that in there? But seriously, I'm very excited about it.) http://www.fishingforwater.net/archives/113 IE (6 at least, not sure about 7), has this behavior where it won't register events on divs that it sees as "empty". This came up in a project where I need to use invisible, positioned divs with event handlers on them. But you can get around it, as long ... http://www.fishingforwater.net/archives/112 For my first Flash assignment at work, a designer asked me if I could work up a version of the OS X Dashboard Widget effect, where the widget rotates in 3D around the y-axis, to reveal a set of controls or additional information on the "back". The project turned ... http://www.fishingforwater.net/archives/111 So in my last post I promised some words on why I haven't been posting for awhile. I'll keep this short, since blog meta chat is usually just painful. For quite awhile I was writing mainly about UX stuff, design thoughts and speculations and what-ifs. But then I switched ... http://www.fishingforwater.net/archives/110 Long time no post. I'll explain why, soon. In the meantime, I've been occupying myself by, among other things, learning how to program ActionScript3. (I've been using this excellent book as a reference.) I used to implement Checkers whenever I was trying to learn a new GUI language, but I ... http://www.fishingforwater.net/archives/109 Fragment from a Job Board, 2018 Local media firm seeks an experienced Playlist Creator with a demonstrable track record and a strong portfolio of playlists in support of different moods, seasons, and tasks. Contract position with competitive hourly wage, flexible hours, virtual commute. Must already have commercial licenses with ... http://www.fishingforwater.net/archives/108 The good folk at Adaptive Path had an interesting recent blog post on experience design and sustainability. I'd like to add an item to their list of ideas: Don't punish users for making sustainable choices. Case in point: I'm trying to stop using plastic bags right now. I have ... http://www.fishingforwater.net/archives/107 This is another "what-if" type of post. Monitors, in general, are getting bigger, and screen resolution is getting higher. (For example, the monitor I'm writing this on right now is 1920x1200 pixels.) The 800x600 screen is largely a thing of the past, relegated to technophobes and poor school districts ... http://www.fishingforwater.net/archives/87