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Meg’s site led me to Dinah’s, who wrote this truism: “There is something really satisfying about clearing out the piles of stuff in your email box to give you a sensation of lightening your load. Illusory perhaps, but it is as if each of those undeleted messages is a string going to your head and…

PB’s site led me to meg’s site. Another pleasantly witty character. I usually despise hyperlinks that aren’t underlined, but by using day-glo yellow on a black background they stand out enough to be perceived as links (and that’s the difference I guess, that the highlighting mechanism has to say more that simply highlighting, it has…

This site is updated using Blogger, a cool system (content management application or CMA in the lingo) based on Pyra that lets you post HTML updates onto a web page to create these wonderful interstitial thought publishings referred to as weblogs. Anyway, I went back to Blogger’s discussion forum to figure out how I could…

Apparently the Blogger people are still working on the archiving feature, so this page will grow and grow until they role that out.

I wonder if anyone has done a usability study of webrings. They seem a contradiction in terms – web implies hyper-navigation (originating with hypertext) and ring implies linear navigation – you go around from one site to the next in order. Thanks, but I’ll see you at a nicely categorized site like Yahoo!.

More on the Strida. Everyone keeps commenting on the bar that rises up from between your legs that curves into the handlebars. The fear is that, in an accident, your crotch would be pressed into the bar. While I see the possibility I don’t think most accidents force the body into such a simplistic straight-forward…

Another note on sizing and the Strida : on the tall end it’s not a question of whether the bike is adjusted well or not, it’s a question of whether your knees will hit the handlebars or not.

Day three with the Strida … I figure out that the Strida bag is assymetical and the bike will only fit in one way. The other way it’s like trying to get a futon cover around a futon mattress, only impossible. Carrying this thing on the subway is weird. In the case it’s a drag…

If you read my report on the Strida and end up buying one please let me know! I’m providing this report as a good Internet citizen but would appreciate compensation in the form of their referral program.

Day two impressions of my Strida bike (see below for background): I should start by stating what the purpose of my purchase was. I commute by train between New York and New Jersey, USA which is about 15 miles. Although my house is very close to the train stations, the destination station in New York…

“If 85 percent of child cyclists wore helmets for one year, we could save up to $142 million in medical costs.” — Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute Their stats page reveals some interesting facts: Men account for 7 times the death rate of cyclists over women. Cycling deaths happen more often at night “Ninety-seven percent of…

Just received my Strida today. I want to jot down some notes that I can eventually compile into a whole page of impressions – there’s a serious lack of opinion on the ‘Net about this interesting bike. I haven’t even ridden it yet but… Just for the record I’m dealing with the Stida 2 here,…

Another Blogger test – does the first post of October archive September’s posts like I think it should??

Expanded bashing of WebCriteria (see original earlier in month): I feel compelled to offer the contrarian view because this product scares me! Our usability tests are done with demographically targeted individuals, but WebCriteria uses one agent (“Max”) that falls short of even a generic human. Max doesn’t understand content or is influenced by it, he…

It’s interesting that in most areas of knowledge we look to experts for authoritative information, yet when it comes to our most important and visible news we rely on general corespondents for the story. Why have a “White House Corespondent” that tries to cover everything from foreign debt to national health care? Why not a…