When It Rains…
Published 17 years, 9 months pastI’ve been largely offline for the last couple of days due to an inexplicable failure of my DSL modem. I was certain that it was another case of the DSLAM dying on me—it’s happened a few times in the past—and when the Covad techs claimed it had to be a modem failure, I was deeply skeptical. Score one for the topical experts: they were right, and I was not.
While I waited for the replacement modem that I was sure wouldn’t change anything, I was using dialup. Man, I never want to do that again. Talk about sipping the Internet through a cocktail straw. To make it even worse, I was tethered. To a phone jack. There was no wifi infusing the house, letting me work anywhere. It was like having lost a perceptual sense. It was wrong and confining and I didn’t like it. No more of that, thanks. If the Republicans are so hot to amend the Constitution, how about they be useful for a change and add “the Right to Unfetter’d Bandwidth”?
So. Nothing much happened CSS-wise while I was gone, did it? No controversies or anything? Good.
While I may have been getting my bits by carrier pigeon, the AEA team was able to assemble and post a full schedule for An Event Apart Seattle, which includes a session by Kelly Goto on “Designing for Lifestyle”:
As design migrates from the web to mobile devices, our approach must also shift. Learn how companies are using ethnographic-based research to design smarter interfaces.
I’ve seen Kelly speak in the past, and she’s always funny, smart, and relevant. I’m really looking forward to hearing what she has to say about ethnography and design.
I’ll be offering updated versions of my highest-rated talks in New York, “Hard-Core CSS” and “One True Layout”, and Jeffrey will be talking about selling standards to difficult clients (especially when the client is a boss) and the importance of writing to good design. All this and Stan too! If you’re fixin’ to come see us, the early bird deadline is still a ways off, but don’t wait too long.