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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)
Category Archives: Technology
The New York Times hosed my computer
This story doesn’t get any better. I mentioned earlier that the New York Times was running a Java applet video ad that caused my home computer to wig out. At work, it seems, the applet causes my computer (G4 Mirrored … Continue reading
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N.Y. Times has video ads done wrong
I’m not suprised that the New York Times has video ads — they’ve tended to be pioneers in ad formats — but I’m suprised that they’re done so badly. This morning I was trying to read this story when all … Continue reading
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Begun these layout wars have
There’s a layout battle brewing in the blogosphere that’s sure to ripple out to the rest of the Web design community. Several prominent bloggers have begun switching to fixed-width layouts for their site. Whitespace makes several points about legibility and … Continue reading
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Site improvements
As you can see, heisel.org, has taken on a slight new look. I’ve switched to a sans-serif typeface for everything but blockquotes, and I’ve adjusted some of the color scheme here and there. I also moved the historic photo of … Continue reading
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There’s nothing like a click
Flyout menus: I don’t like ’em. I don’t want ’em. Recently, my employer, AJC.com, switched to using flyout menus, and many other Web sites and Web applications use them. I understand the need. As a designer, you have to constantly … Continue reading
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