September 2005 Archives
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
Adaptive Path has three winter workshops planned. You can use my "Friends of Chiara Fox" code for a 15% discount. (Type "FOCF" into the code box at the bottom of the registration page.) And register this week for a discount on top of the early bird price for the New York workshop. Beyond Usability: Designing the Complete User Experience New York -- October 31 - November 1, 2005 Through Oct 1, 2005: only $995 After Oct 1, 2005: only $1295 This two-day presentation covers the process of user experience design from gathering initial business requirements through developing functional specifications. The
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
Between 1990 and 2000, of the 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom (see The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books): 1,607 were challenges to "sexually explicit" material (up 161 since 1999); 1,427 to material considered to use "offensive language" (up 165 since 1999); 1,256 to material considered "unsuited to age group" (up 89 since 1999); 842 to material with an "occult theme or promoting the occult or Satanism" (up 69 since 1999); 737 to material considered to be "violent" (up 107 since 1999); 515 to material with a homosexual theme or "promoting homosexuality" (up
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
Okay, yes. It's kind of embarrassing how long it took me to do this. But I finally got around to fixing the non-Moveable Type pages of this site. So they all have the purplish/blue with a white box around the text look. Yes, it's boring, but at least they all match in the boringness. Now I just need to hook in E's new MT tags (once he gets it working) in the LJ crosspost thingy and I'll be ready to go. w00t!
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
Hrm. I've only been to 20 of the 812 World Heritage Sites. What makes the concept of World Heritage exceptional is its universal application. World Heritage sites belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located. It's definitely time for more travel.
Posted by Chiara | Category books
The Forest Lover
Posted by Chiara | Category netflix
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Posted by Chiara | Category netflix
Tears of the Sun
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
So, I was looking at the search queries that have brought users to my site. And I noticed that one of them was ""toe ring" cum." Ahem. Yes. Now, I know I haven't written about that. So, I do a search for it and lo and behold, there on the second page of results is my "About" page: This is such a great example of context insensitive search gone wrong. Not to mention a lack of disambiguation. And yet, I questioned whether to post about it, since I really don't see the need to reinforce the connection between the pages
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
I am both amused and disturbed at the same time.
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
How can a short week be more busy and more painful than a normal week? It just doesn't make sense. You'd think that the limited hours in the workweek would keep one from getting all crazy. But instead, the opposite happens. You try to cram five days into four. Silly humans. *sigh* As fun and relaxing as a three martini dinner could be, I think a date with Ambien is more what I need tonight. Many hours of knocked-out-cold sleeping sounds just about perfect.
