Life

The usability of everyday stuff

by erin on 02/24/2009

in Life

Yesterday I went down to a client’s with one of my team members to start a new project. He rented a car and ended up with a Mazda 7. While driving, we tried to adjust the temperature in the car but had little success. The dashboard offers 3 dials – 3 – yes 3, for [...]

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to consider in the new year

by erin on 12/31/2008

in General,Life

from the blog TheHappinessProject a post about new year’s resolutions and writing up your personal commandments. The author has her 12 for the year but at the end of the post she listed these items out that others had shared. The bolded items are ones I think I will pay special attention to this coming [...]

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sometimes life gets in the way

by erin on 11/03/2008

in General,Life

i have had grandiose plans to blog frequently but then lately lots of things have come up and i keep forgetting. the book writing is in full swing and we are working through how to share the patterns in progress with the community. we have a blog and a wiki set up over on our [...]

thoughts on transitions

by erin on 09/26/2008

in Career,Life,My job

i was having a phone conversation today with a potential client and professional colleague when she asked me if i had thought about submitting a proposal to the IA Summit – for the management track – about my transition out of traditional management. We were talking about my transition from being a manager of managers, [...]

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Folks who know me, know that I spend most of my spare time being a photographer. I spend time out photographing landscapes and other things that interest me to stay creatively fulfilled. I spend hours and hours on the computer in the digital darkroom – which was supposed to make our lives easier – but [...]

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@cwodtke thanks for sharing th…

by erin on 09/19/2008

in tweets

@cwodtke thanks for sharing this – made my week!

@cwodtke I thought honorific w…

by erin on 09/19/2008

in tweets

@cwodtke I thought honorific was for titles like Dr. and not Ms, Miss etc.

If you like music you should c…

by erin on 09/19/2008

in tweets

If you like music you should compare your list to this one: http://www.1000recordings.com

finished reading Water for Ele…

by erin on 09/19/2008

in tweets

finished reading Water for Elephants last night – a circus love story – man, woman, elephant. http://tinyurl.com/4uonkc

@chromatic when I was househun…

by erin on 09/19/2008

in Life

@chromatic when I was househunting, I looked at at least 2 places that had chickens and ducks in the garden

secured my tix to the december…

by erin on 09/19/2008

in Life

secured my tix to the decemberists in november – yay!

hmm-twitter tools widget on wo…

by erin on 09/18/2008

in Life

hmm-twitter tools widget on wordpress is not bringing in my tweets…I hate when i start new tech projects just as I should be going to bed

just unlocked my updates so I …

by erin on 09/18/2008

in Life

just unlocked my updates so I can pull my tweets onto my blog – I still don’t know why people I don’t know care but there you are…

whoa – twitter did a redesign …

by erin on 09/18/2008

in Life

whoa – twitter did a redesign push in the last hour

experiencing weird synching of…

by erin on 09/18/2008

in Life

experiencing weird synching of direct tweets between twhirl, iphone sms and email – time lags galore