I’ve developed an interest in sythesizers and I got myself a Creative Prodikeys. Makes a good wrist rest while not in use and it’s a joy to be able to belt out a quick riff and then move up to the normal keyboard for other adjustments. For the price it’s a cheap entry into PC-MIDI.
September 2006 Archives
I can finally touch my toes for the first time I can remember. I’ve been stretching after my shower every day as a convenience thing… The hot water helps loosen you up.
Just wanted to post a quick note about a couple of books I’m going to chase down.
Building Scalable Web Sites by Cal Henderson ISBN:0596102356 - Paperback $69.99
Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell ISBN:0596008031 - Paperback $89.95
Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few ISBN:0596100167 - Paperback $64.99
I had to help out one of my best customers today to clarify a stupid printer driver programmers vague error message.
The document to be printed (a page of labels) had specific printing preferences to print from the manual feed tray. As it’s unlikely that you’d have a ream of lables in your tray (but I’m sure there are freaks out there), this setting made sense from a workflow perspective.
The printer after detecting no paper in the manual feed tray, spouts a message about being “out of paper”. Which was vaguely correct, but practically unhelpful. The user is thinking “the tray is full of paper, and printing any other document works”.
If the printer has the capacity to handle multiple sources of paper then it should specify in it’s diagnostics where exactly the problem is. How hard is it to say instead “The manual feed tray is empty”.
It’s stupid programmers that keep a tech support industry alive translating their insanity for normal folk.
