The only question about user experience

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Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer. – Larry TeslerNo topics for this post.

Rutherfod Hill Vintage Zinfandel Port 2002

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Name: Rutherford Hill Zinfandel Vintage PortVintage: 2004Varietal: ZinfandelWinery: Rutherford Hill WineryRegion: USA > California > Napa > RutherfordSnoothRank: 4/5My own rating: 5/5My review of this wine: I’m actually reviewing the Rutherfor…

Best Youtube Error

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Probably my favorite error message in a long time! A strange popup showed up while I was editing a video: “something unexpected happened. please smash head against keyboard. when done, you may run in circles, wave your hands and scream” Topics in this article: error, screenshot, strange error, youtube

Citrus Inspired Lattitude Chardonnay 2008 from Sonoma Coast

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Name: L’Attitude Chardonnay ’08 Chardonnay Usa California l’AttitudeVintage: 2008Varietal: ChardonnayPrice: $16.74SnoothRank: 3/5notagrouch’s Rating: 3.5/5notagrouch’s Review: This turned out to be a great white. Chardonnay isn’t really my thing, but t…

Quick review: Breaking Bad – Season 1, Episode 2

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Breaking Bad Season 1, episode 2. Awesome that Netflix has Breaking Bad on streaming and I can multitask. First, I’m liking the show much better this time around.

Quick review: Case 39

That was one creepy movie. It started out as a cool suburbian story. Emily, played by RenĂ©e Zellweger, is a case worker for abused children in trouble-homes. She ends up rescuing this little girl from the parents, as they are about to make a roast of …

TTYtter, yes Twitter from the command line

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This is mostly for the twitter-geeks and Sys Admins or those that are a mix of both. Some of the applicable uses for this program as I see it are: Updating from cron or automated tasks Updating from your terminal Update certain events from a logfile Updating Twitter from a low-powered computer, TTYtter runs on [...]

CSS and HTML Basics

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I’ve been spending some time recently helping people out with their websites and I thought I’d post a few tips on CSS basics. Let’s cover the difference between ID and Class when we’re talking about CSS. IDs… IDs should be unique per page. IDs are selected with the “#” symbol Classes… Classes can be shared, [...]

Zero Moment of Truth – by Google

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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his is a must read if you’re in social media, marketing, business or want to be in any of those three. I separate social media and marketing because I really want you to consider this book if you’re in the traditional marketing space. For those of you doing social media, and doing it well, you [...]