Monthly Archives: October 2009

Be The Match Registry

By Jacob Allred | Published: October 16, 2009
Just got an email let­ting me know that I’m offi­cially part of the Be The Match Reg­istry (for­mally known as the National Mar­row Donor Pro­gram). I signed up a few weeks back when there was an offer to waive the nor­mal reg­is­tra­tion costs (the offer may still be valid). After a week or so of wait­ing, [...]
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Review: Designing Web Usability

By Jacob Allred | Published: October 14, 2009
Just gave up on Design­ing Web Usabil­ity. I mooched the book on the rec­om­men­da­tion of dozens of smart peo­ple that stated this is the defin­i­tive usabil­ity guide for the web. Lies! This book was out-of-date when it was pub­lished. The guy rants for like 10 pages on the virtue of using blue col­ored links. Another 10 pages [...]
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Review: Gun, with Occasional Music

By Jacob Allred | Published: October 14, 2009
Just fin­ished Gun, with Occa­sional Music. This is one of those books that has some clever ideas, a some­what inter­est­ing story line, but part way through goes in a rad­i­cally dif­fer­ent direc­tion. Some­times that is good. In this case, it was bad. It felt like the author backed him­self into a cor­ner and wasn’t sure where [...]
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Stargate Universe

By Jacob Allred | Published: October 10, 2009
Just found Star­gate Uni­verse on Hulu. How did I not know this show existed?! I love Star­gate! I’ve seen every episode of Star­gate SG-1. I watched Star­gate Atlantis before vam­pires were cool. This is my show! Any­ways, the show seems okay so far. Lots of time is being spent in char­ac­ter and story line devel­op­ment, which is a huge [...]
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Traffic Goals

By Jacob Allred | Published: October 6, 2009
Build­ing web­sites is fun, but what is the point if nobody goes to them? I’d love to increase my traf­fic but it is hard to get moti­vated or track progress with­out a goal. So to give myself a goal and to help encour­age myself to pro­mote my sites bet­ter, I’ve set up a lit­tle fea­ture on this [...]
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Chrome Frame

By Jacob Allred | Published: October 2, 2009
There has been a lot of talk lately about Chrome Frame, an Inter­net Explorer plu­gin from Google that makes it pos­si­ble to run web­pages in IE using Google Chrome’s ren­der­ing engine. It works by look­ing for a meta tag in the HTML of the web­page that tells the plu­gin to switch IE’s ren­der­ing engine. Hypo­thet­i­cally [...]
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