Archive for April, 2001

5k Web Competition

Thursday, April 12th, 2001

I recommend that anyone who actually reads this go and check out The 5k Web Design Competition. Go and look around, vote if you so choose, but check it out. It’s quite amazing just what some people can do with 5k to work with. Of course, it also amazing what people can’t do as well.

Jen Mankoff

Friday, April 6th, 2001

I went to a pretty interesting talk this morning by Jen Mankoff about handling ambiguity and errors in recognition systems. Though the coolest thing wasn’t really related, but was a prototyping tool called SILK. It lets you sketch out a design on a computer, then renders that design into interface components. This […]

Fish and Owl Creek

Wednesday, April 4th, 2001

In other news, we just got back from a backpacking trip to Fish and Owl Creek in southeastern Utah. It was Erica’s first trip and she did great! It even sounds like she might be up for going again sometime, so we must not have scared her too much =) Hopefully, I can post some […]

Erica in San Diego

Wednesday, April 4th, 2001

For anyone interested, here is a picture of my beautiful (and brilliant) girlfriend Erica fulfilling a dream and playing oboe on the beach at sunset in San Diego… Ok, so her dream didn’t neccesarily specify San Diego, but anyways. She’s giving her first talk this Saturday, and I think she’s going to be great!