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 [...]

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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 This book was out-of-date when it was published.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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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