I just stopped by OpenOffice.org to download their fine software. I hadn’t seen their site for awhile, and while the current design is pretty nice, they made one tragic error that I can’t help but point out. Here is the current design: Everything you’d come to the site for, laid with convenient icons. However, for
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Back in college, I had a professor pose an interesting question on an exam. It was worded like this: “On the back of this paper, write out every keystroke and mouseclick you would take to add five spaces at the beginning of the first 10 lines of a file in a text editor.” Naturally, some
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Song previews in music stores have always fascinated me. I remember when I first downloaded iTunes I wondered: how is the location of the preview in the song selected? Why 30 seconds? Most importantly, why can’t the previews be better? Thankfully, a lot of music sites I use are better, and are only improving. Trackitdown
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Here is a new personal project of mine. It is still in the works, but I’ve been posting to it as I work on it. It uses a couple interesting WordPress plugins to do the detailed classification: specifically, the fields and tag clouds for flavors, breweries, and beer styles. The design is not mine, but
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