Year-end wrap-up. Must be that time of year, since two usability-related year-in-review pieces came out yesterday: Jakob Nielsen's Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 Bob Bailey's Do's and Don'ts (from HFI; based on usability research for 2002) Both are actually fairly level-headed and practical. Most of these things should be common knowledge for most IAs, [...]

Chandler and Outlook – Another Perspective. Kevin Altis put it better than I could re: Outlook and Chandler in his weblog reprinted with permisision here.  [Mitch Kapor's Weblog]

Derek on Travel. Derek says to the airline industry: “I quit. I'm not playing these games. You will get me on your planes only when my career requires it and when they pay for it. So long as I have to submit to Orwellian procedures and give up basically any human rights I thought I [...]

Planning for 2003 It has gotten supernaturally quiet. Everyone but me is on vacation, for some reason. Here's a look ahead at some of the things that Fog Creek Software, and Joel on Software, will be doing next year. Programmer's Paradise is one of the largest mail-order retailers of computer software, and they're trying to [...]

Move to Open Government Electronically. – “The federal government, with its tangle of agencies and regulations, has never played particularly well on the Internet, where fast-flying facts prevail.” “As things now stand, conducting a search of federal databases on topics like toxic waste or the safety of frozen pizzas can be a frustratingly complex task. [...]

The people who walked in darknesshave seen a great light;upon those who dwelt in the land of glooma light has shone.You have brought them abundant joyand great rejoicing,as they rejoice before you as at the harvest, Isaiah 9:1

A Christmas Carol was great again this year!

Going to see the North Shore Music Theatre's annual production of A Christmas Carol tomorrow afternoon.  I try to go every year. Still want to see Harry Potter 2, Die Another Day, and Lord of the Rings 2.  Maybe next weekend!

“But It's Free!” Hot article by Ben Forta on ColdFusion… he has discussed this so often that you get the pure, distilled essence of his replies to “What is ColdFusion anyway?” and “But something else is free!” His point in there about CFQUERY is the archetypal example of differences in the total costs of development. [...]

What's New About Chandler. There's already been a lot of discussion about what's new, different, and cool about Chandler in this weblog and elsewhere…. [Mitch Kapor's Weblog]