Archive for July 2006

21 Jul 2006 1604H

Medical prescription mistakes injure, kill

1.5 million people a year are injured because of easily prevented problems with prescriptions. And why? Because, in part, they’re poorly written. And then, all the bottles look the same. Do you know, me mum hadda UTI that went septic on her and were it not for the fact that she was in the clinic [...]

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21 Jul 2006 0936H

Clever is as Clever does

Old story, but, the University of Bath, funded in part by the EU and BMW, have developed a 3-wheel, two-passenger car that can get over 100 miles to the gallon. That’s huge, considering that when you observe commuters, most of us are driving solo. This, along with the Smart ForTwo, I think, make compelling consumer [...]

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21 Jul 2006 0707H

Boston Acoustics Recepter Radio

This radio, in my long quest for great radios (since I wake up to, go through, and end my day with radio) is head and shoulders above the competition. Why? The user interface is ridiculously simple to use. It’s the first product I think I have purchased just because the interface suited me so well. [...]

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21 Jul 2006 0540H

Credit Suisse and User Experience

But they required an American to come in and help them see though. Of course, it could very well have been Swiss, or Chinese, or whomever: we have no national or ethnic hold on user experience improvements. There are some great things happening here. First, stakeholder buy-in at the managerial level — this helps support [...]

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12 Jul 2006 0002H

A new day

…so to speak. I have installed WordPress 2.03 here as the first step in bringing myself back up to speed. I’ve used blogware in the past such as Userland Manila to develop web content management solutions for organizations like the Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, the Asian Community Online [...]

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