Plastic Balls

A flash game with new take on breakout. Gravity is in the center. Easier to control with mouse than keyboard.

PixIcons:: eats est percipi

an entire type face of 9x9 pixel icons. via mister jon.

Ideal Day Job

With [reasons deleted] I thought I'd put together my day job priorities. These include both aspects of a workplace environment and personal career goals. The vast majority of these conditions exist in my job at the moment.

At my ideal job I would...

• work with a talented team in an open office (not cube farm) environment that encourages cross-pollination of ideas between a variety of roles.
• be constantly learning, thinking and challenged.
• work on projects that are important, projects that accomplish goals and serve needs.
• have a to-do list that is long enough that I'm always busy (with a reasonable ebb and flow to the stress level).
• conduct user testing, or at least work on interfaces where user feedback is received and valued.
• spend more time working with people on problems than dealing with problem people. On the same note, I would spend more time being productive than in meetings.
• have influence on internal workflows, be able to change a process if it is clearly causing problems and be able to experiment with alternative ways of doing the job.
• solve problems creatively, not just fulfill requirements.
• be involved with requirements on at least a consulting level.
• invent new products.
• work on interfaces in variety of media.
• both design (wireframes, photoshop mockups, etc.) and code (front end: html, css, dom scripting).

What other things make a job or workplace environment really great?

Simon Willison: Executing JavaScript on page load

note to self for next time pull together a dhtmlapi.js

Comments on mezzoblue v4

comments to be read and comment to be made before they get turned off. suspect there will be a number of "it looks unpolished" but nobody actually discussing the contrast issues (high contrast design, low contrast content).