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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Author Archives: Chris Heisel
It’s stupid, on purpose
Anyone who works in the Internet biz, especially us newspaper types, should check out World of Ends. This is a great article by Doc Searls and David Weinberger, that really gets at what the Internet is and what stupid (not … Continue reading
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It’s my browser, not yours
And I’ll decide when to open links a new window, thank you very much. E-media Tidbit’s Steve Outing gets it wrong when he suggests that papers should send readers to off-site links in a new window. His suggestion that the … Continue reading
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Rage, horrible rage
If anyone else gets a G5, that they don’t want, please contact me, before you desecrate it.
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Advertisers not getting the message
I read Trek Today, and TrekBBS — I’m a nerd, let’s move on. They both have annoying, moving, spining, jumping, singing, spitting, yelling ads that annoy me and give me a bad impression of the company the ad is for … Continue reading
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The Duke of URLs
Whitespace has a good discussion going on about directory structure and thinking about it in advance. Directory structure is important to system administrators, URL structure is important to designers. But, Chris, you say, aren’t the two inherently linked? Won’t /www/news/metro23.html … Continue reading
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