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14 June 2007 – I was recently “meme tagged” by Susie, author of the terrific blog susiej.com … a meme tag is a kind of rolling writing assignment that you pass on to other people. And somehow all the cross-linking benefits everyone’s Google visibility. So here, by request, are Eight Things I Know:
- It’s all about Family - and you get to choose your Family
- The camera doesn’t lie, but it doesn’t tell the truth either
- Can’t decide? Go for the one that makes your heart beat faster
- The time to leave a job is when it has no more to teach you
- It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
- You’re only as good a driver (or ______) as you are at THIS MOMENT
- Compassion exercise: imagine yourself in the place of the one who is suffering
- The Universe experiences itself through you
Not sure who to tag with this, but instead of eight people I’ll go for just two for now, my old friend Ruben at slouching toward lumbini… and the enigmatic Marcus at BigBlackCat
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28 May 2007 – Bad design has been a lifelong pet peeve of mine, and I’m usually quick to blame industrial designers, software programmers, and marketing mavens for making life unnecessarily irksome for consumers. But, just as TV viewers’ tastes encourage network execs to greenlight stupid shows, it may be that consumers, by demanding products […]
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16 May 2007 - Milt Grant, my first boss in TV died recently (28 April). I worked for him at WDCA-TV, Channel 20 in Washington DC, which he founded. A hands-on General Manager who took an interest in every aspect of the station, Milt was, well, larger than life; you get some sense of that […]
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10 April 2007 - Here is a video I recently produced with a colleague, Dr. Brian Doyle. It’s a pilot for a web-based series about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We just premiered it at the AMA Medical Communications Conference in Tampa, and received an enthusiastic reponse from the physicians and journalists who saw it. […]
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12 February 2007 - One of our readers, Hilyard Decker, has suggested that the City of Virginia Beach’s website is a good candidate for our Museum of Bad Design. Says Hilyard:
Try to find the jobs postings. Even if you know what you’re doing, it takes five clicks.
And he’s right. To look at the jobs available […]
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6 February 2007 - Here’s our first exhibit, and it’s deliciously bad. International Delight Nonfat Coffee Creamer is pretty tasty when you’re in the mood for flavored coffee (or to mask the bitterness of cheap or over-roasted beans). The product used to come in a traditional “gable carton” with a plastic screw cap – nothing […]
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1 February 2007 – Here’s a great article by computer science professor Avi Rubin about two examples of bad software or bad security, both due to lazy, sloppy design or system administration. Both incidents happened to him in a 24-hour period: while staying at an NYC hotel he encounters problems with their wireless Internet access, […]
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29 January 2007 - Last Sunday’s 60 Minutes had a feature on a highly successful company called “Geek Squad” that helps people set up, troubleshoot, or repair their computers, DVD players, high-def TV’s and other digital doodads. The piece spends more than a few minutes belaboring what is, by now, a pretty obvious point: consumer […]
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28 January 2007 - I am really enjoying Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion in which he represents science against religious fundamentalism with wit and vigor. But I also feel that his purely scientific view of reality doesn’t adequately acknowledge the limitations of our human perspective, or the profound mystical experience of contemplating the Einsteinian “God […]
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21 November 2006 - Check out this great article about Thomas Paine in The New Yorker. He was a “founding father” whose ideas are as provocative today as they were in the 18th Century. His works were widely read, but some booksellers in England were jailed for selling them, and Paine was persecuted and prosecuted […]
