Acts of Volition

Many of you have likely seen the many weblog posts entitled “A Musical Baton” over the last few weeks. The chain-letter-like post asks the author to share a bit about the music they are enjoying, and pass the duty on to five more people. Having been passed the “baton” myself (thanks Garrett), I’ll …

The GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC) is underway this weekend in Stuttgart, Germany. For those, like myself, who are unable to attend, the fine open-source media company, Fluendo is providing live streams and archived videos of the talks.  •  The talks from GUADEC day one are …

Matt Round writes on his weblog about how strange it is that many wedding photographers retain ownership of negatives (or high-res originals, in the case of digital photography) and charge clients for additional prints. Indeed.  •  The photographer who’ll be documenting my upcoming nuptials …

If you had asked me, before Firefox came along, if tabs were a good idea for a web-browser, I would have said no, absolutely not. The old Mozilla Browser had them, and Opera had them. Both were clunky and intrusive.  •  The real reason I would have thought it was a bad idea, though, is that tabs …

We don’t often think of Windows 95 as a shining example of user interface design and usability. It was slow on the hardware of the day, it crashed often, and many of its claimed “innovations” were copied from Apple and others.  •  All of that said, Windows 95 was a big leap for visual …