{"id":200,"date":"2006-07-20T00:57:24","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T08:57:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:32","slug":"july-randoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/07\/july-randoms","title":{"rendered":"July Randoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some possibly interesting items from the month of July:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A follow-up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/07\/group-decision-making\">Subjective Group Decision Making and Carpets<\/a> post is coming soon.  The choices are narrowed down to two now and I should know what the final decision is in a few days.  Such drama.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m heading down to Portland for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webvisionsevent.com\" target=\"_blank\">WebVisions<\/a> today.  Will be speaking about &#8220;Designing for Community Interaction&#8221; and participating on another design panel as well on Friday.  Come say hi if you&#8217;re in the Land of Port.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texturadesign.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lord Byron&#8217;s<\/a> new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogbusinessbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Publish and Prosper&#8221;<\/a> is out.  If you&#8217;re running a business and thinking about maintaining a company blog for it, you should read this book for an overview of the important issues involved with such a thing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zatznotfunny.com\/2006-07\/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tivo Series 3 boxes<\/a> are allegedly very close at hand.  Comcast, you may have just been spared the gallows.  We&#8217;ll see.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m thinking about getting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slingbox.com\" target=\"_blank\">Slingbox<\/a>, just for kicks.  Anybody ever use one?  Is the quality any good?<\/li>\n<li>The new season of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/shows\/reno_911\/index.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">Reno 911<\/a> has begun.  Rejoice.<\/li>\n<li>I went coldwater diving in a dry suit for the first time last week off of Alki Beach.  Not sure I&#8217;m going to do that again.  There is some beautiful stuff down there, as is evidenced from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvintang.com\/blog\/?page_id=4#id=seacrest&#038;num=1\" target=\"_blank\">my friend Calvin&#8217;s great photography<\/a>, but man, it&#8217;s just too much gear.  My idea of scuba diving is throwing on a shorty, hopping on a boat, and jumping in the 80 degree waters of a tropical island destination.<\/li>\n<li>Has anybody else noticed a style of commercial on TV lately where a company will spend the first 25 seconds or so describing the product and then during the last 5 seconds, they will actually repeat a specific line mechanically three times in a row?  One I saw yesterday said &#8220;Apply directly to the forehead.  Apply directly to the forehead.  Apply directly to the forehead.&#8221;  Really weird and disturbing.  I&#8217;ve seen a few more of these as well, all for different products.  They seem to run a lot on cable news channels like MSNBC.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.veen.com\/jeff\/archives\/000901.html\" target=\"_blank\">This is one of the best user experience design quotes<\/a> I&#8217;ve ever read and it&#8217;s not even a user experience design quote.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some possibly interesting items from the month of July: A follow-up to the Subjective Group Decision Making and Carpets post is coming soon. The choices are narrowed down to two now and I should know what the final decision is in a few days. Such drama. I&#8217;m heading down to Portland for WebVisions today. 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