pixeldiva

The online home and (not so) alter(ed)-ego of Ann McMeekin Carrier. New Mum, Photographer, Knitter, Petrolhead, Shoe and Stationery Obsessive and User Experience Consultant at Lab49.

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Spaz is an unacceptable term

Khoi Vinh blogged a few gripes about the iPad this morning. So far, so what? A blogger who likes Apple gear blogs about his use of Apple gear. Who cares? I probably wouldn’t have, were it not for the last sentence of the following paragraph (reproduced in its entirety to give context): Among features that [...]

Live Tweaking is Fun!

Except when things go horribly wrong, like the feed stats plugin I was using. It’s not been banished to the depths of wherever, but unfortunately, NetNewsWire has cached the version with the borked URLs and I can’t figure out how to get it to update. So if you’re using NNW (or associated thingies and wotsits), [...]

It's time to start over

Sometimes, when things are very broken or very muddled, the effort needed to fix them is too much to contemplate. In those situations, there are two choices: do nothing or do something. I’ve been doing nothing for several months, because I knew that the doing something was likely to be complicated and I just didn’t [...]