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Things I will miss about Texas and Austin…

enchanted rock
being close to family
my posse at axiomfire
walking barefoot in the summer at night
taking off on my motorcycle through the hills
naps at 3 in the afternoon under a ceiling fan knowing it was 105° outside
barton springs
live oak, cedar and holy limestone
camp rio vista
my home
taking my kids to the […]

I’ve been reading The Art of Project Management and I just laughed out loud at a part of the book that was going over how to manage difficult situations. The subsection header is How to know you are in a difficult situation and it begins:

As far as projects are concerned, I consider a situation […]

Mark Rundle has a great critique of why the new TechCrunch design fails. There seems to have been a few conflicting design choices that probably weren’t managed appropriately. It feels to me like a result of “design by committee” even if it may have only been a design of two. There doesn’t […]

I built a great little box at the Innovation Games - DCamp Eventspace session. I paired up with Chip to try and create a simple box that would draw people into the DCamp conference. It was part of a set of “innovation games” that … created to help companies gain insight into the […]

Hey!  That’s me at dcamp: 100_0587 on Flickr

I was the un-official note-taker for the SOSD & Open Source Usability discussion at DCamp un-conference.  There was a good discussion on how to make open source projects more usable and getting designers involved… Go check out the notes page for details.

Wow. Check out the NotYourSoldier site’s anti-war animation…

water and the tunnel
Originally uploaded by tracyshaun.

I was going to go to the Friday night session of DCamp tonight, but I wasn’t able to leave work until about 5 today and it was going to be a long trip down to Palo Alto, so I just randomly decided to go to the golden gate […]

I once felt a little earthquake when we lived in Portland. It was late at night and I had drifted off to sleep after having cruised around the intternet for awhile. At the time, we lived in apartments on the side of a large hill, elevated on stilts. I didn’t feel any […]