• MP3s Here, MP3s There, MP3s Everywhere!

    I discovered today that I have over 5,000 MP3s–27 Gigabytes!–spread across three harddrives. Enough is enough. I’m positive that a fair portion of them are duplicates. But how am I to tell without crawling them one at a time? Afterall, many are named with the artist first while others are named with the album or…

  • Quark a no-show at HOW?

    I’m writing this from the 2003 HOW Design Conference in New Orleans and I see Adobe. There’s Apple. Pantone’s around. A dozen paper vendors are here. Over there’s Hewlett-Packard. MyFonts.com is here as well. Funny, I don’t see Quark. As a matter of fact, Quark isn’t here. One of the biggest events of the year…

  • Still Laughing At Quark

    I’m still laughing at Quark 6. I’ve seen it. I’ve played with it. It looks nice Cocoa-ized (meaning it runs under, and looks like, a native Mac OS X environment), but it’s the same damn piece of crap we’ve been forced to use for thirteen years. The UI (user interface) is the same clunky, out-of-date,…

  • Meet Me: How Conference

    2003 HOW Design Conference – June 5-8 Anyone else going? If so, let’s meet up.

  • Quark 6–PR-Speak to English

    Translation of Selected Portions of Last Week’s “QuarkXPress 6 Feature Overview” Announcement from PR-Speak to English

  • Office Space Soundboard

    The people I work with worship the film Office Space. They seemingly never tire of quoting Gary Cole’s manager character. In their honor I post this, Office Space Soundboard, as found through Michelle’s Everything under the Sun.