September 2007 Entries
I was visiting a photography blog the other day and was having a lot of trouble reading it. All of the links we blending into the background. Being color blind I was wondering if it was just me and that was the way it was intended. When I asked the site owner about it he said it was a problem with IE and didn't know how to fix it. Of course being the geek that I am I couldn't leave it at that. I pulled down the source (evidently a WordPress template) and his style sheets. Everything looked fine,...
Posted On Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:27 PM | Feedback (0)
I heard this on the Skeptics Guide to the Universe and had to post it since it works for science as well as software development. It also happens to be from one of my favorite authors. "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny ...'" (Isaac Asimov)
Posted On Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:09 PM | Feedback (0)
As usual my other lives are creeping into my work. I submit photos to challenges and review what other people has submitted. In the process I noticed that there was never a negative comment for any of the photos. Now what does a person learn from that? On the other hand you have the peer reviews that we go through as architects and developers. In these you rarely hear someone compliment you on a diagram that makes the subject area easier to understand or a sentence that clearly captures the business...
Posted On Friday, September 07, 2007 10:05 PM | Feedback (0)