stumblings and mumblings

Internet finds and memorable moments of an HCI student with a passion for design, food, and the environment.

another idea

delicious should take into account how long I spend on each page. time-inferred preference metric+lightweight&optional explicit rating=sort!

Maybe I could hack my delicious extension to do something like this.

Ooh, and what about number and duration of revisits?

some techie/designy goals (updated)

  • Learn Flash animation (better)
  • Make a cool mash up with my new perl data mining skillz
  • Make a Twitter mashup (because everyone’s doing it)
  • Exercise my graphic design skills
  • Improve Wheelable Drupal site to launch state
  • Design Drupal/Wordpress/whatever theme
  • Design shirts about procrastination
  • Design custom 404 page for my site
  • Design a social website around people’s personal cooking experiences - perhaps twitter/tumblr-esque where you can do short blurbs about what you’re eating or custom recipes or links.

browsing quirks

Often times I am typing an e-mail or instant message to someone and I go to my browser’s address bar to have it auto-complete a url for me. It saves me from having to check twice to make sure the url doesn’t have any types.

Specifically, if I’m already in my browser, I do Cmd-t for a new tab, start typing until the url pops up, down to select, cmd-A to select all, Cmd-C to copy, Cmd-w to close that tab, and then Cmd-V to paste. And I do it so quickly that it is faster than typing longer urls, so I do it even for ones I know well.

I need to play with Ubiquity for Firefox and see how it can make my browsing behaviors more efficient.  I don’t think it solves this particular problem yet.

productive prostination

This evening I’m reminded of a phrase I once coined: Don’t Delay, Procrastinate Today!

I seem to be getting everything done except the short paper due tomorrow.

And I never did create a t-shirt design with the aforementioned phrase, as I had planned years ago…

I just want to figure things out enough so that I know I could do them if I wanted to.  Often after that, I lose any further motivation. I do it with both human and computer languages, for instance.

I wonder what I will ever find that will catch my interest and prolong my tinkering beyond the basics.