off to florida

so i’ve been to some crazy places in my short life, but never to florida. which you, dear reader, must be thinking i should remedy. well, alright, i’ll go. actually i’ll be in ft. lauderdale, a place which i seem…

i’ve got to sketch out the saturday i just had

rolled out of bed at 10am after melanie’s party the night before that raged until after 3. played and lost two games of kickball with my fellow SILSters. sat out in the sun at weaver street market for several hours…

home hunting

there’s a cute little condo complex on McCauley street with a unit for sale: costs $299,000. Hmmm. That number is so big, compared to my $800 car, I can’t even comprehend that much money. Or ever buying anything for that…

my head is foggy

the conference on human computer interaction (CHI 2003) left me with a real distaste for usability. reminds me of my loss of faith in poetry. linguistics did not sit on the fence, it strove to be a science and it…

user-interface problem

i am trying to design an interface to browse a list of trainings. each training belongs to a program, and a program has a hosting organization (like university of costa rica), a program type (like master’s degree or workshop) and…

user-interface solution?

the previous post describes what can be restated as a problem of how best to create a human-browsable index? a useful index is one that: -is organized/sorted to facilitate quick lookups -has short index terms [keys] -has non-ambigious index terms…

contributing to the creative commons

Finally got around to dedicating my digital photos online to the public domain! What does this mean? Well, it means: The Dedicator [that’s me] recognizes that, once placed in the public domain, the Work [the photos in my online gallery]…

break from studying for my cognitive science final

just wanted to take a break from studying for my cognitive science final exam to discuss how i am studying for my final exam. our midterm essentially consisted of identifications and definitions, so i kind of know what i’m up…

growing the creative commons

the other day i “offically” released the images from my online photo gallery into the public domain. this was something i wanted to do way back, but finally felt compelled to do so after getting an email from someone in…

Essential Database Naming Conventions (and Style)

style use lowercase characters eliminates question of proper case as well as errors related to case-sensitivity speeds typing rate and accuracy differentiates table and column names from uppercase SQL keywords separate words and prefixes with underlines, never use spaces promotes…

self-promotion

i remember once my mom bought a wreath to hang on the living room wall, and this required the whole room be repainted and rearranged to coordinate. well, the other day i wrote up a little document outlining the naming…