Home Again

It's gonna be wearying to do all this traveling, three weekends in a row. I love to come home to DC though.

Colossally Stupid Usability Report

Jakob Nielson strikes again. The man has made a career out of either pointing out the utterly obvious, or missing the point altogether.

This article probably does both. Gosh: the reader's eyes move in an F pattern! On a page with content laid out in an F pattern!

Or in a more solid block! On pages laid out in a solid block!

They don't go to the far right corner... where there's nothing to see! Holy Moses, stop the presses.

Seriously... people pay money for this??

April Flowers

Just because it was such a beautiful day.

Miss Abigail's *Fabulous* Book Party

If you weren't there, you missed the event of the season! Poor you!

Send me $29.95 and I'll send you a DVD of the not-to-be-missed goings-on. (Unless you are Miss Abigail, in which case you get one FREE!!! Just for being so incredibly fabulous.) Well, okay, a DVD with about 10 minutes of crappy video, but still! The glorious Miss Abigail holds forth and her stylish guests give an impromptu dramatic performance. It is wildly entertaining,

So, you couldn't be there... but you can buy the book ~ which, after all, is the WHOLE IDEA: Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage: Classic Advice for Contemporary Dilemmas.

Hey, if you can't shill for your pals, what's the point?

Server Migration Semi-complete

My old host disappeared off the face of the earth with NO NOTICE.

Thanks to the kindness of the lovely Jonathan, I have a new server home. Unfortunately, all my old images went bye-bye with the old server. I'll recreate all the ones I can when I have the chance. Some may well be lost to posterity. C'est la vie.

Reminder to self: Blogger is a swell free tool, but make sure to keep local versions of all files anyway.

[Update: All the pictures, except for one, have been restored. Pleased not to have lost anything truly precious. Somewhat wistful having read back over the previous posts...]