July 27, 2010 – Saint Mary Lake « Dave Fry’s Picture of the Day
I should really link to Dave’s PotD more often. He’s always got good stuff on there.
ORCA Sometimes Feels Half-Engineered - Seattle Transit Blog
I’ll give you 2 good reasons for that feeling.
- it was less than half-designed
- it was less than half-engineered
It’s hard to be diplomatic when the website is so poorly designed that it feels antagonistic.
The linked article says the print materials are great. My first thought was “they have print materials?” This is Seattle after all, we live and die by the web.
I don’t think the ORCA site really is malicious though. My hypothesis: the bureaucracy handed a packet of internal docs and an unrealistic timeframe to a lowest bidder web design firm, and never looked back. The project could have used a PM.
All pronounceable initial letter abbreviations are acronyms
This is a primary tenet. This is a rule I live by.
A secondary tenet is “all initialisms are pronounceable if you try hard enough.”
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I go out of town for 2 days and my tumblr queue empties out. A terrible state of affairs, to be sure. I’ll be working double hard to fill it back up again this week. In the mean time, I still have a few trip pictures to post.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz



