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2011-07-15 01:08
Two 9's of uptime!
www.bartgrantham.com is now back up, I apologize to the one or two people who were looking for stuff on it. WOPR and fasttext are also now back online. Thanks for your patience.
2011-06-07 01:03
The Inaugural User Experience Awards was a mess.
Executive Summary: The UX Awards was a surprisingly unpolished event for an awards ceremony. It was poorly presented, unfocused, and generally unpleasant experience for the users audience. I came away very inspired but in a negative way, hence this rant.
What follows is my unforgiving assessment of the evening, followed by suggestions on how I think they could make the 2nd Annual UX Awards a better event. I appreciate that the organizers and volunteers worked very, very hard to put this evening together, but the audience paid money to attend. Therefore, I can't pull punches on what I felt was largely a waste of time and money. I apologize in advance for the harshness of this post, it's the result of sitting in the audience and stewing with frustration for over an hour.
What follows is my unforgiving assessment of the evening, followed by suggestions on how I think they could make the 2nd Annual UX Awards a better event. I appreciate that the organizers and volunteers worked very, very hard to put this evening together, but the audience paid money to attend. Therefore, I can't pull punches on what I felt was largely a waste of time and money. I apologize in advance for the harshness of this post, it's the result of sitting in the audience and stewing with frustration for over an hour.
2011-05-17 00:06
Microsoft to buy Nokia?
Eldar Murtazin tweeted that Microsoft is planning to purchase Nokia outright. There will undoubtedly be much better analysis on this topic other places on the net, let me just provide my unvarnished opinion that this is insane. I mean, Mr. Murtazin might be right, just that if this happened it would be an incredibly foolish move on Microsoft's part.
2011-04-27 01:55
About That PSN hack
Let's just get this out there right now: If you hack the Playstation 3 and figure out how to disable its significant copyright security mechanisms and you publish your information on how to do so, they will sue you. If Sony, due to their negligence and extremely insecure data security cause your personal information, including your billing address, credit card information, PSN login and password, email address, birthday, etc. to be disclosed, they will "regret the inconvenience."
2011-04-21 11:36
