tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39739334499082563222024-03-07T04:12:06.610-05:00<Wax></Wax>One woman's adventures in usability, web mastery, and project management.... and spell checking.Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.comBlogger945125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-24644056656347040392011-10-30T17:10:00.002-04:002011-10-30T17:10:38.411-04:00Yeah... Another Dead BlogI think there's a ton of good stuff here, so I'm not taking it down, but I'm not posting here anymore, either. All my posting is on Google+ now....Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-88426566988998857902011-04-01T13:07:00.000-04:002011-04-01T13:07:53.579-04:00Wait, What? Why??<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6AR7YAlXYTWKFs95vSrncLAzbA5z7Y2wurT0GiYoPMY6__q3h2TuuQ3nNbXqs3ftztpCtyzo0de9LuqDa4s54nxIFJlRdIugukBNh2C_juSlQCkW4GKOy787opeW-zzSniWVTt0qwhQ2j/s1600/waitwhy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6AR7YAlXYTWKFs95vSrncLAzbA5z7Y2wurT0GiYoPMY6__q3h2TuuQ3nNbXqs3ftztpCtyzo0de9LuqDa4s54nxIFJlRdIugukBNh2C_juSlQCkW4GKOy787opeW-zzSniWVTt0qwhQ2j/s320/waitwhy.jpg" width="182" /></a></div>I<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> needed lunch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ordered lunch (and a couple days extra lunches).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then I noticed one of those, "wait, what?" moments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you click on something on this site to add it to your pizza (in my case, by mistake green peppers, as well as tomato and chicken) then remove it (allergic, too cheap, too cheap)... it shows up on your receipt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As, "no {whatever}." Which makes sense, if your computer isn't smart enough to recognize "Hawaiian BBQ Chicken without BBQ Sauce," but makes no sense if there's no "standard menu item" involved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this case it's costing Domino's another pizza -- which I await now -- without green peppers. Since the guy making it somehow saw the "no" in front of tomato and chicken, but not green peppers... which would make me very, very ill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was the developer thinking?! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can think about big enterprises, and probably get the sinking feeling that this happens on a daily basis but none of the lowly franchise employees have a means or the clout to get it fixed with The Pizza Mothership Web Development team.</span>Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-84229179440958582082010-11-30T07:37:00.000-05:002010-11-30T09:06:14.633-05:00Taking a Seat on a Panel Does Not Mean You're RightBack in the mists of time, I attended a networking event for women in IT & Engineering* in DFW.<br />
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The event was about findings jobs (I was quietly looking at the time) and they had a panel. The panel was accepting anonymous questions.<br />
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So, I asked the panel if any of them had ever disguised their gender on their resume.<br />
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One of the panel members became rabid at the concept of doing that. She went as far as to say if she ever knew another woman did that, she would do her best to block that woman from ever getting hired (boy, I was glad the questions were anonymous.)<br />
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She seemed to take it as a personal affront that anyone might think that discrimination still exists.<br />
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There's a study that was recently published in Discover. The study seems to point out that maybe using your initials on your resume isn't such a horrible thing, despite what Rabid Panel Lady said.<br />
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<h2><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/11/22/fake-cvs-reveal-discrimination-against-muslims-in-french-job-market/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Fake CVs reveal discrimination against Muslims in French job market">Fake CVs reveal discrimination against Muslims in French job market</a></h2>Yes, this was a study of race and religion in France, but I think follow up studies in the US based on gender, race, and disability would be similarly revealing.<br />
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*<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Well, it was supposed to be IT & Engineering as our Web group had merged with an Engineering group. Until I went to an event, and was sneered at for not being an Engineer and couldn't <em>find</em> any of the other Web women... never went again.</span>Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-30690737000399885982010-08-23T07:10:00.000-04:002010-08-23T10:11:42.486-04:00Oh Thank the Googles....There's now spam reporting and identification in Blogger comments. Hip, hip, hooray. I only had 64 spam and 2 legit comments...<br />
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Now to find time to actually, you know, blog stuff.Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-30741978930695909472010-06-11T12:48:00.000-04:002010-06-11T15:55:58.636-04:00Fun with PicasaWe uploaded some of our photos into Picasa®.<br />
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Picasa® has facial recognition.<br />
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What you don't realize when you turn that on is that it will find ALL the "faces" on your computer.<br />
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For example, it went wild until we told it to skip the Sims® installation.<br />
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It also found the following:<br />
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This is part of our baby's jumper toy!<br />
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Picasa® also found a familiar face in the background of my China pictures.<br />
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But the highlight, better than all the rest, is a fellow we have labeled, "Nose Picker."<br />
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You can try and hide behind the iron (bronze?) statuary... but Picasa® is going to find you!Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-59883002455644567572010-06-01T14:35:00.001-04:002010-06-01T14:36:46.946-04:00The Project Management Swing --- Some Updates<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The original:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhrxtJLy7urGWGW815LaLvIveW_PBP7kAoPGMI95obKd6QyRO8v6HwsTQZxIVw6rqX8KctvvYCZmqOs2lwk90q5AchjXYnqRuK5DZpUohEmfemGJym6oqu4OpZ4aSFkX50zh7C23Bxr_SE/s1600/6a00d83451cfe069e200e54f62af3e8833-800wi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhrxtJLy7urGWGW815LaLvIveW_PBP7kAoPGMI95obKd6QyRO8v6HwsTQZxIVw6rqX8KctvvYCZmqOs2lwk90q5AchjXYnqRuK5DZpUohEmfemGJym6oqu4OpZ4aSFkX50zh7C23Bxr_SE/s640/6a00d83451cfe069e200e54f62af3e8833-800wi.jpg" width="596" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Commentaries and/or corollaries:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">For your PowerPoint® Pleasure....</div>Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-44063783119955518432010-04-16T17:03:00.001-04:002010-04-16T17:14:05.615-04:00No, Google, No... Buzz Posts are NOT Sent EmailI just noticed recently that if I go into my Gmail™ sent items (looking of course, for pictures of the baby I've sent to people, but whatever), that my outgoing email is completely junked.<br />
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What is it junked by? Every item I've shared on Google Reader™, all my Twitter Tweets™,and every status change I've ever sent to Google Talk™.... or at least since Buzz™ started.<br />
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Since I'm a heavy Google Reader™ user, and we use Google Talk™ at work for off-site coordination --- my status changes quite a bit (usually variations of free/busy + "song playing on iTunes" option).<br />
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What is Google™ thinking? <br />
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Yes, a history of what's been "buzzed' under my name -- sure, I can support that. But why is it in my Gmail sent items? <br />
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Can't The Great Google Gods In the Sky™ give those "folder" (tag as There Are No Folders) of their OWN??Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-6770819333049526652010-04-01T07:14:00.000-04:002010-04-01T10:16:27.488-04:00In My Inbox Today: April Fools & Zombie Pop Culture = Odd Emails<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjZ_g6_zo-IMpMsKtLDgCtDQjfpMJJf5ndWnDCtk4qm2AM4LlmWShzm1xoQFpVBcnxmQc0KQ4fkkjcSohqBVELhmBETpu2vRiQ9Ahon91g3Vxpyo30w0_BThcPdKx8U57olgFiGsr4aC7/s1600/Clipboard01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" nt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjZ_g6_zo-IMpMsKtLDgCtDQjfpMJJf5ndWnDCtk4qm2AM4LlmWShzm1xoQFpVBcnxmQc0KQ4fkkjcSohqBVELhmBETpu2vRiQ9Ahon91g3Vxpyo30w0_BThcPdKx8U57olgFiGsr4aC7/s640/Clipboard01.jpg" width="502" /></a></div>Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-61712953232372198432010-03-18T07:31:00.021-04:002010-03-18T10:48:26.241-04:00Designing Accessibility is NOT About Us vs. ThemThis <a href="http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/03/17/color-rubik-cube-for-the-blind/">Rubik's Cube "for the blind"</a> has gotten a lot of blog attention lately:<br />
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There's just one problem. It's not really for low vision users. Many low vision users may not read Braille at all, but instead use magnifying devices to blow up what they see.<br />
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Others may have never learned Braille (because they lost sight after school, for example) and with audio technologies may not have needed to learn it.<br />
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Still others are color blind.<br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: purple;">Great accessible design helps everyone, without hurting anyone.</span></em></strong><br />
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How would I design a Rubik's Cube for the visually disabled? I would put the Braille AND a black text label on the already existing color blocks. Then everyone can use the same Cube. <br />
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THIS is great accessible design:<br />
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Easy to use, not labeled and stuck to the side (I've heard text-only websites disparaged as the "Section 508 ghetto" by disabled users!), not inferior, not different... just more useful, in the end, for everyone. A wheelchair user could use that lift, but so could an overburdened shopper, or just someone who had had a really long day.Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-19605628612387703182010-03-10T18:43:00.000-05:002010-03-10T18:43:33.955-05:00If you have to put a big blue sticker on the button...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTBpvuhoY4jMHHAZ0n7lDmzk6tSbVdo3h6IOLzIHYErTXKqMM7ZWn07Y4QftIl0xCSXZivRAFZDfRPbID0hodrjP_nVNpbuK93aWKClTipmVU5AWLahu1pr-RufO9qMe9e634mwMqbzUHt/s1600-h/01-18-10_1011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTBpvuhoY4jMHHAZ0n7lDmzk6tSbVdo3h6IOLzIHYErTXKqMM7ZWn07Y4QftIl0xCSXZivRAFZDfRPbID0hodrjP_nVNpbuK93aWKClTipmVU5AWLahu1pr-RufO9qMe9e634mwMqbzUHt/s640/01-18-10_1011.jpg" vt="true" width="640" /></a></div>Maybe the buttons aren't done very well? (Sorry for the poor quality photo -- camera phone on the sly)Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-37472310306492305942010-03-10T18:40:00.000-05:002010-03-10T18:40:17.983-05:00Brilliant SignageSo, I want to know, did Hook #2 go up before or after the "Do not use the hook" Sign?<br />
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I really don't want to send myself a reply!!<br />
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And it's not like Buzz wasn't created to work in Gmail--- if I go to Buzz.google.com, I get sent to gmail!<br />
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Screen grab proof....<br />
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Yeah, when your spokesperson can't open it and you're resorting to having a web page with instructions AND a 1-800 number simply to open the product.... go back to the drawing board.<br />
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And usability test your next run at it...<br />
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This is obviously a <strike>spal</strike> slap in the face for dsylexics everywhere.<br />
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WTF?!?!?!Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-88553189769124759182010-02-10T17:45:00.002-05:002010-02-10T17:45:00.565-05:00Amazon Shipping Managers Need To Look Outside the Window??I ordered some books (note the irony on WHICH books).<br />
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While this is happening:<br />
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So where does Amazon ship them from? The middle of the storm, of course! <br />
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I know I live CLOSER to Laurel, MD than say, Coffeyville, KS (a favorite ship-from location for household goods), BUT, evidently Amazon is the only one who doesn't know that it's snowing in Laurel, MD and Richmond, VA. <br />
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Speaking of, the UPS site says the stuff will still get delivered today, which would be really miraculous, seeing as how the stuff is currently under 3 feet of snow in Virginia.... Amazon sent out a "delayed" email, why isn't the UPS site showing delayed?<br />
Now, admittedly, I don't need these books today, but I would be really irritated if the new wireless/usb antennae we just ordered had also been stuck in the snow.... our Tivo's can't talk! It's Tivomageddon!Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-90893774587992935762010-02-02T16:04:00.000-05:002010-02-02T16:04:30.691-05:00Yeah, Even Google Makes TypoesThe actual frustrating fact? I got here from Google Docs, and it doesn't tell me what my quota there is...<br />
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Oh, well. Too much $$ for what I wanted to do, either way. DVD burning it is.<br />
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B/c, you know, underwear-clad shots of women from hip to navel are the only way to represent each of those stories.<br />
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I have found the quickest way to check tracking on two packages is to put them into Google one at a time, but what a pain in the butt.<br />
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Of course, I'm only doing this b/c the really lovely Amazon tracking screen <em>doesn't show the same statuses as the UPS site</em>. Often the Amazon site will show something has left the facility and the UPS site will tell me the truth, "billing information received" (which means UPS doesn't actually have it yet.)<br />
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Amazon:<br />
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UPS:<br />
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Argh.<br />
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At least now, as a Prime customer no longer living in DFW, I don't have to watch my packages sit in the UPS depot for three days so that I don't accidentally get them in 2 days instead of 7.Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-31375328632030364002009-12-19T14:17:00.001-05:002009-12-19T14:18:49.919-05:00Small Things Make a Big Difference in Getting Retail Right...I purchased some gifts for my mom, myself and a friend off of knockknock.biz.<br />
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I wouldn't normally do business with a .biz, but the brand is sold on about 50 other websites, and they had better combined pricing and shipping than the other options.<br />
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Two things they do right, little things, that made a difference in my order:<br />
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1. They offered to email me a coupon in exchange for my email address and the email showed up <strong>immediately</strong>. As in, as soon as I had the tab open for gmail the code was already there. <br />
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I don't know how many sites get automatic email communication wrong... I know that Kodak lost my over $200 order on some custom printing when their database couldn't email me a new password this year, and that I have take my business elsewhere on many sites when the email confirmation of a new account or a lost password took longer than 2 minutes to get to me.<br />
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2. They offered my receipt in a nicely named PDF file. That's what I do with e-receipts anyway--- print to PDF. Except I didn't have to do that AND the file is nicely named (knockknockreceipt.pdf).<br />
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Sweet.<br />
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In fact, this is one of the more nicely done order confirmation pages I've seen. Simple to read, customer service phone numbers big and easy to see, nice use of their own product line, prominent print AND pdf buttons. <br />
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The only beef I have is with the back-ordered note--- none of the things I ordered were marked as out of stock, so now I'm confused a little as to why that is there.Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-59661102377304011462009-11-19T07:15:00.000-05:002009-11-19T11:18:34.481-05:00Yeah, I Said It AlreadyA year and a half ago I blogged about "PizzaHut.com and its high level of bad" in <a href="http://yetanothersite.blogspot.com/2008/04/pizza-hutcom-to-borrow-from-vincent.html">Pizza Hut.com, To Borrow from Vincent Flanders, Sucks</a>.<br />
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Today Consumerist runs a story about the <a href="http://consumerist.com/5408203/hungry-guy-says-online-pizza-hut-coupon-doesnt-work">PizzaHut.com website not working for people</a>.<br />
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Didn't I say that already?Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-56675818521796216412009-11-17T07:27:00.002-05:002009-11-17T10:31:58.877-05:00American Airlines Fires Designer For Admitting Site Could Be ImprovedAnd that headline should tell you all you need to know about the AA commitment to Customer Service, never mind Usability.<br />
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It's validating to know I'm not the only one who thinks the AA site needs major help. (Here's my post from last time I used their site: <a href="http://yetanothersite.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-get-annoyed-again-american-airlines.html">http://yetanothersite.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-get-annoyed-again-american-airlines.html</a>)<br />
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Here's the dialog on another blog that got the AA staffer fired: <a href="http://dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html">http://dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html</a> and <a href="http://dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html">http://dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html</a>Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-38090794186203755442009-11-12T18:22:00.001-05:002009-11-12T18:22:00.193-05:00Dear Outlook,I know that this is futile, but I'm going to say it anyway.<br />
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When are you going to be better? There's so many things wrong with you, but today your lack of ability to tell that 2 people are the same people is really getting to me. <br />
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You aren't going to send the same person 7 copies, so why won't you deduplicate my to: line?<br />
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For example:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Should become this when I click the little Man + Checkmark icon.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That way when I'm reading a list of 75 people on the to line, I can better see that Jane is on the list (or not on it). Speaking of, it would be nice if the To: box could expand to show everyone there, but maybe that's just me. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This mostly happens when we have 17 Outlook distribution groups, I add each one, then need to deduplicate it to see who is missing, since between them John Smith is on 15 and yet Sally Roe is missing from all of them...<br />
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</div>Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-59582345074483226102009-11-05T09:32:00.001-05:002009-11-05T10:12:37.413-05:00I Think I'm In LoveAdobe has this tool (maybe they will build it into Photoshop Version.Next!) at <a href="http://kuler.adobe.com/">Kuler.adobe.com</a>.<br />
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With it you can take any picture and turn it into 5 color themes -- mathematically balanced to work together.<br />
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For example this image:<br />
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Gives me:<br />
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Or this:<br />
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Goes to this:<br />
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I'm in design love.<br />
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Of course, like all early infatuation, my lust is tempered by frustration as I get to know Kuler. For example, Kuler is built into Adobe CS4 -- but not the photo tool, so I will be at the mercy of Adobe never taking it down if I want to love it forever and ever and ever. Also, Kuler, like the punk rocker you dated in college, isn't ready to be brought home to Mom. <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/kuler/faq/">Specifically, there's no way to get Adobe Swatch Files into Dreamweaver</a> -- I'm going to have to ink dropper each color to get its hex code if I use the ASE files. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (And really, Adobe, "Macromedia didn't support ASE files when we bought them" doesn't cut it as a reason to not allow Dreamweaver to pull hex codes from an ASE file. That was four years ago! Get over it!)</span>Yet Another Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036114828567565679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973933449908256322.post-19047693788932687922009-11-04T16:37:00.004-05:002010-10-05T16:34:06.715-04:00Halloween 2009We went with a very different theme from previous years: <a href="http://yetanothersite.blogspot.com/2008/10/halloween-2008.html">2008</a>, <a href="http://yetanothersite.blogspot.com/2007/10/halloween-2007.html">2007</a>.<br />
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2009:<br />
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