Paul's World

From Stanford: “How Everyday Things Are Made”

Suppose you went to the main web site for a company which operated a number of different web sites. Further imagine that the left navigation bar had a section called “Visit Our Sites” which lists the company’s web sites. Wouldn’t it make sense that each of the web sites listed would be a link so [...]

I was talking to Mark today via Yahoo! Messenger when he asked me if I’d heard about the plane crash. I hadn’t. So the first thing I id was go to CNN’s web site. I looked at the headlines which were about the release of the space shuttle crash investigation and scanned the rest of [...]

Clay Shirky writes: Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity. When I was CTO of a web design firm, I noticed in staff meetings that we only ever talked about process when we were avoiding talking about people.

For many years we used Cingular for our cell phone service. At that time our decision was based on the fact that you could get a free phone by contributing $40 to Ronald McDonald House Charities. We lived with our two biggest service issues – there was no service in our home and the fact [...]

If you haven’t seen James Burke’s Connections series, you’re missing good stuff.

I spend lots of time at the computer and occasionally feel a little tweak in my wrists or hands. Maybe I should try out Workrave.

I think I’ve found another one. It’d sure be easier if businesses had e-mail addresses.

I spent grades 2 through 8 at Redwood Christian Schools and for a bunch of those years had a good friend (and nearby neighbor of my grandparents) named Doug. I left Redwood for Moreau High School (now Moreau Catholic High School to better emphasize its heritage and to try and stopt people from calling it [...]

Susanne Millar was a co-worker and my former boss. When I first met her (and for years after) I’d have never imagined how her life has turned out. I sure am glad that she’s found something that so completely fills her life.