http://www.gabrielbiller.com/gablog gabbin' and loggin' for your noggin Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:45:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I meant to add this awhile back but never did.  It's just too good to not have. Probably the worst, most heinous new feature I've seen in Vista... inexpicable, really -- so unbelievably wrong and terrible from any and all design and human-centered perspectives -- is this "copy file" dialog when ... http://www.gabrielbiller.com/gablog/2008/08/29/pet-peeve-311-windows-vista-lameness/ Compare People is, like, super lame. Ever notice how the person voted hottest person or most desirable to date in your group of friends is decidedly not?  All elections are rigged!  Life is a farce! http://www.gabrielbiller.com/gablog/2008/08/16/facebook-apps-are-stupid-1-compare-people/ Jesus, I don't even know where to start, but I've just about had it with Vista after 3 days working in it (on a MacBook Pro, of all places... which, if you ask me is completely idiotic... and, frankly, it undermines the experience and pleasure of using the fine Apple ... http://www.gabrielbiller.com/gablog/2008/07/18/pet-peeve-3-um-basically-all-of-windows-vista/ I went into a neat shop today as I explored Seattle called The Anne Bonny.  There were some great works of art in there (some fantastic drawings/paintings by an artist named Travis Louie) and lots of used brick-a-brack.  But, then I went upstairs and was delighted to discover the workshop ... http://www.gabrielbiller.com/gablog/2008/07/10/cute-plush-creatures-every-day-for-a-year/ Kristy Scovel and I finished (finally!) our video for school, which premiered at the IIT Institute of Design to about 20+ people on Monday, June 30, 2008. With the guidance, support, and great intentionally bad interviewing prowess of our advisor, Jeremy Alexis, we set out to create an educational video for ... http://www.gabrielbiller.com/gablog/2008/07/02/getting-people-to-talk-an-ethnography-interviewing-primer/ What a great video.  The editing kinda sucks, and it's a little slow in its pacing, but I will definitely watch this again.  I hope to apply some of Kyle's lessons on how to better extract espresso on the Rancilio Silvia (I have the same machine as Mark!).  Silvia has ... http://www.gabrielbiller.com/gablog/2008/06/20/espresso-lessons-from-the-us-barista-champion/ It's over, and I'm glad. The raw food wasn't all that bad. Except for Tuesday's menu, which I didn't care for, the food was overall decent and interesting. The sweets tended to be my favorites, then the crackers. I can make salads and buy fruits myself, ... http://www.gabrielbiller.com/gablog/2008/04/22/raw-food-week-final-verdict/ Yesterday I began my five day regimen of raw food from Karyn's Raw in Chicago. I met the woman/owner of the restaurant/market during a great intersession class at ID taught by Bill Hill from MetaDesign. He took us there for a special lunch to experience raw food as ... http://www.gabrielbiller.com/gablog/2008/04/16/raw-food-week-day-2/ Okay, so I gave in years ago and switched to iTunes instead of Winamp (which I think was way better in terms of giving you freedom to listen to and organize your music as you saw fit) since I figured it made more sense to use with my iPod. I don't ... http://www.gabrielbiller.com/gablog/2008/04/07/pet-peeve-2-install-safari/ Not long ago, I had my third interview with a company which I really liked. I got a good feeling from the people, the environment, the work they did, and the reputation they had. Unwisely, I pulled an all-nighter the day before in order to wrap up some ... http://www.gabrielbiller.com/gablog/2008/04/04/the-clothes-do-make-the-man/