So, if you have a “feedback” text field in a web form that you’d like to limit to a certain number of characters, but you neither provide any warning whatsoever nor implement some sort of tech solution to automatically limit things, don’t you think just maybe that will piss off someone who’s just written a a very nice letter of thanks to you, but with 300 too many characters?
From the somewhat defunct AAlgar Electronics website (I designed the iTari images):
Almost twenty years ago, the Atari 2600 was born. Since then, tens of millions of people have discovered it’s the cheapest, easiest way to your favorite video games without the hassle of going to the arcade.
What could follow the world’s most popular home gaming console? A completely new iTari, redesigned from top to bottom, inside and out—and available in a variety of designer colors.
Achieve-IT!: Fun and Easy How to Guide to Binding Your Own Paperback Books At Home…FAST:
If you like ebooks but don’t like reading them on your computer screen, this How-to post is for you. I’ll show you a quick and dirty book binding technique you can use to turn your ebook into a real book with about 5 minutes worth of effort.
I’m going to go ahead and recommend this movie, though I hope I’m not just being a blind-eyed fanboy. Not that I should be— I haven’t read the comic (though I do usually enjoy Alan Moore), and the Wachowski brothers have done more to piss me off with the Matrix sequels than I could have […]
A 1972 documentary on ARPAnet, the precursor of today’s internet.
Amazing art from Chris Donovan. It’s creepy, yet… no, it’s just creepy.
I realized this morning, with all this GTD stuff, I’ve been expecting myself to change very quickly, and for the world to suddenly become a happy shiny place, all because I’m not just letting papers (and emails) pile up all over the place, willy-nilly. I don’t really need to turn my life around on a dime to be happy with my own progress. A little change for the better every day is just as admirable, and probably much more sustainable. And as Luis points out:
you improve a little bit each day and over the long run you’ve outrun the pack.
Wise words, indeed.