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Everything Old is New Again

By on 1/27/2005

It’s kind of fun to see old (but good) ideas about usability and feature bloat return to the forefront in a product. Those of us who remember the night-and-day difference between the Macintosh and MS-DOS (or even Windows 3.1) think of this as axiomatic – that the software should get out of your way as [...]

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Man, What Did I Get Myself Into?

By on 1/6/2005

Or is that “Into What Did I Get Myself?” We had a special homeowners’ meeting last night for our townhome HOA, because the entire board resigned two months ago. Only four were speaking up to be on it, so I volunteered, partly at Jennie’s prompting, to fill the fifth seat. Little did I know that [...]

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Hail the Trojans

By on 1/5/2005

Congratulations to USC, who played a terrific game in last night’s Orange Bowl. They had my Sooners beat at every turn.

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