August 2011
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WatchLet’s talk about my mom for a minute.
While she and my dad were busy raising me and my barely younger sister, she was even busier being a freelance journalist, and busier still playing the piano at every chance she got. She was brilliant at the piano. When I was a school kid, she’d play from the Cole Porter songbook, and I’d sing. I’m sure it was as funny to behold as it...
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More about unhiding folders
dwineman replied to your photo: Remember back when you used Snow Leopard, and your…
What guillee said*, plus you can hold Option and Library appears in the Go menu.
Both appreciated! I didn’t know I could hold Option while clicking on the Go menu in order to make Library appear there. And I’m more than a little embarrassed to admit that I even didn’t consider just...
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“Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us. Now we’re...”
– David Frum, former speechwriter to George W Bush
m.guardian.co.uk
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WatchInformation Architecture as Storytelling
This is the slide show for the presentation I gave last week in San Antonio. It was the most fun I’ve had presenting in years. The audience was smart and engaged, the questions were insightful and challenging, and the whole experience reinvigorated a side of my brain I’ve let idle just a wee bit too much since I quit teaching. Great fun all...
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WatchAbout a month ago, Jeremy Fuksa and I set aside a couple of hours to talk for his show The Cocktail Napkin. Here’s the result.
It’s a good episode, in my opinion, but certainly not on my account. I actually found it painful to watch. It’s uncut from beginning to end - full of all my worst awkward silences, hems & haws, too fast rambling, social gracelessness in the face of...
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