http://www.tiffehr.com Deprecated by Tumblr Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:38:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In support and acknowledgment of cancer survivors in my own family and life, Syncretic Conundra is Pink for October, is support of breast cancer awareness. I actually like the pink better, so I might just leave it. 'Cause it's not like cancer confines itself to one month. http://www.tiffehr.com/2007/10/01/breast_cancer_month/ I have a bunch of back-logged posts, I know, but I’m going to skip to something quick. Among the handful of blogs I follow on the topics of cognition, bodywork and brain stuff, Madam Fathom’s post on intelligence and knee injuries stood out as exceptional. Reason being: I have a ... http://www.tiffehr.com/2007/07/17/too-smart-for-our-knees/ I attended An Event Apart, Seattle ’07 a short while ago. It was an excellent conference and beyond the program, I enjoyed chatting with the speakers, organizers, new geek friends and old geek friends alike. The conference ran flawlessly, and the location was exceptionally posh, even with a ... http://www.tiffehr.com/2007/06/26/the-ux-workers-swept-under-the-carpet/ Like Véro, I thought I'd post about my own Google Reader "Shared Items" feed, should anyone want to follow the items I bookmark within the 325ish feeds I follow (religiously, now that I'm unemployed). In a previous iteration, I had a "shared" widget-sidebar on this blog, but it looked ... http://www.tiffehr.com/2007/06/25/my-350-feed-addiction-filtered-for-you/ I have not one, but three pieces of my own writing in this week's Digital Web, 11 June 2007. The first piece is my usual news blurb, announcing the new issue with relevant links and my usual “quirky” prose—all without the use of “thrilled”, about which Carolyn continually teases ... http://www.tiffehr.com/2007/06/11/digital-web-trifecta/ In an attempt to gain some clarity and separation of topics in which I'm interested, over the last month I've been preparing a new blog, which is now live. It's called Lost Cog, and it focuses my research and interest in the relative maturity of tech companies (management, tactics, ... http://www.tiffehr.com/2007/06/07/introducing-lost-cog/ I know, it's been a while. Since the end of March and my last post, I've been exceptionally busy and distracted with a lot of thinking, analysis and conversations about the shape and direction of my career. Due to all that thinking, I expect my haphazard blogging to ... http://www.tiffehr.com/2007/05/18/stripes-simplelog-theme/ First off, I want to show my support for “Stop Cyberbullying Day”, today, 30 March 2007. Technorati tag stopcyberbullying Related to that, two days ago I posted a short "news" item on Digital Web with some of my thoughts on recent instances of the Internet’s “underbelly” rising up to shock the web-standards/blogger ... http://www.tiffehr.com/2007/03/30/community-responsibility-on-digital-web-magazine/ I'm far from coining a style, but I want to add a note about my new navigation style you can see just up above this post if you're not reading this via RSS. I call it “broadsheet”, as an echo of the old “wild west” broadsheet newspapers, which featured hand-built ... http://www.tiffehr.com/2007/03/29/a-note-about-broadsheet-style/ For a number of years, I've been a big fan of the idea of the SXSW (South by Southwest) Music Festival. As a world-class, indie music event throwing down each year—like your Sundance festival, mom—it takes the gumption of both Seattle's own Bumbershoot music weekend and San Diego's Street ... http://www.tiffehr.com/2007/03/16/a-short-note-about-my-first-visit-to-south-by-southwest-07/ From the Big-Brother-benevolence of Claritas, via Hitwise: "'Young Digerati are the nation's tech-savvy singles and couples living in fashionable neighborhoods on the urban fringe. Affluent, highly educated and ethnically mixed, Young Digerati communities are typically filled with trendy apartments and condos, fitness clubs and clothing boutiques, casual restaurants and all types ... http://www.tiffehr.com/2007/03/14/demographics-can-be-terrifying/ Over the last few years, an increasing number of friends scattered across a variety of industries mentioned that their employers discouraged—even persecuted—anything interpreted as job searching. One company (which many could guess if you know me but a little) even went so far as to demand employees take down ... http://www.tiffehr.com/2007/03/06/passive-job-searching-and-my-ongoing-thoughts-about-it/ Since I no longer have a tablet, I'm no longer an ink blogger.  I'm a regular blogger, which has a gravitas, resonance and cringe-factor I didn't expect.  Odds are I'll still only post incoherent, infrequent, ignominious things on a very sporadic schedule.  And eventually my blog will atrophy and come ... http://www.tiffehr.com/2007/02/21/change-of-plan/ My favorite indie music blog is DoCopenhagen (as in, "the people running this blog want these bands we like to play Copenhagen, Denmark, please").  They came to my attention last year with a stellar list of the Top 50 music videos for 2005.  Well, the 2006 edition is out, ... http://www.tiffehr.com/2006/12/06/pixelated-streaming-eye-candy/ Okay, this is sad, but until I get the pen rendering worked out, Ink just hurts my eyes. And as I'm the only reader, I'm taking pity on myself and *amending* my blog rules. (Amending. Not breaking.) Two common suggestions to increase voting turn-out at largely meaningless mid-term voting: ... http://www.tiffehr.com/2006/11/07/voting-day-woo-w-uh-woo/