August 13, 2007 – 6:22 pm
It’s almost September: school supplies, fall clothes, old friends, class schedules. I love the motion after summer’s pause. I love the thrill of new projects and the renewed energy for old ones. I love the return to making work seriously fun instead of taking vacations that are seriously fun.
In celebration, I bought a notebook today. […]
November 11, 2006 – 9:03 pm
Not a regular series because most Saturday nights I’m either out on a hot date or fighting off the horde of children I’ve produced, due to previous hot dates. Next Saturday night we’re going to The Magic Flute with some of our favorite neighborhood friends, week after that, back to the horde.
So here it is, […]
November 7, 2006 – 11:11 am
London-based Flow Interactive is running a project for World Usability Day (November 14th) called Making Life Easy. They invite you to submit examples of things that make life easy and things that don’t. If you’re really motivated, get out and put a red balloon on the best and worst examples of usability you can find, […]
November 4, 2006 – 8:02 am
We’re too caught up in thinking we can predict and control the future. I see it with my friends who want to plan their childbearing and career jointly to the nth degree. Then they have trouble getting pregnant. Or they don’t and they’re surprised at how fast it happens. Or, sadly, their children have grave […]
When I was a baby, just two or three months old, I cried. I cried and cried and cried ’til my mother wanted to shoot her head off… or maybe mine. She thinks I was bored. Al Gore hadn’t invented the Internet yet, so I couldn’t keep my neurons engaged with that, and I wasn’t […]
One of my favorite new blogs comes from a mainstream media outfit, Business Week. It’s their Working Parents blog. They’ve gotten together five moms and two dads to write regularly about issues that impact parents trying to combine work and family. These issues affect every family with kids at home, because even when one parent […]
Dave Winer:
I’m so tired of people talking about how their mother wouldn’t understand something. I’ve been hearing this for 20 years, and it’s sexist and ageist, and wrong and unfair, and how about let’s get rid of this offensive idea. I’d never say that about my mother, who has a PhD, and is pretty smart. […]
