http://blog.zszaiss.com directed musings Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:37:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks for being patient everyone... the time has finally arrived. The new blog design is done, and is ready for the unveiling. Without further ado, I'm pleased to present Zaissian Logic. Check out the first post on the new blog today and let me know what you think. Oh, and ... http://blog.zszaiss.com/index.php/2008/02/11/update-your-bookmarks/ Yeah, different look for the old blog... First of all, this is not the redesign I've been alluding to for the past few months, rest assured. However, as part of the redesign (that I've been working on over this weekend), I needed to upgrade the current blog to transfer all my ... http://blog.zszaiss.com/index.php/2008/02/03/what-in-tarnation/ Reality for designers who work in Microsoft shops has changed in the past year, mostly due to the fact that the Microsoft Marketing Machine has worked exceedingly well. The message - targeted primarily to developers, mind you - is that the Expression suite of products solves all your developers' woes ... http://blog.zszaiss.com/index.php/2008/01/19/design-developer-workflow-6-things-developers-should-know/ I've been semi-addicted to Scrabulous lately - basically, it's a Facebook application that allows you to play Scrabble with your Facebook friends. While I'm trying to limit the games I play, it's a great chance to play games with people I don't see every day. I'm not into MMOs, and ... http://blog.zszaiss.com/index.php/2007/12/18/silly-users-developers-know-best/ Adobe, Adobe, Adobe... A couple years ago, I wrote about Windows XP's habit of updating overnight and restarting the computer without user input. This caused its share of problems, but today Adobe topped it. Back story: Apparently it was a big update day for Adobe, because I had almost 200 MB of ... http://blog.zszaiss.com/index.php/2007/12/17/ready-set-restart/