Blog Posts About: humor

...Is that my brain hasn't quite caught up. The transition from IE was effortless in some ways, but I seem to be "challenged" by the tabbed interface. I exhibit great skill creating new tabs (ctrl + t), but when my intention is to go to another browser window, I still waste time looking at the bottom of the screen, like I would with IE.

I'm dedicated to changing this behavior because tabs are better and faster (like so many things with Firefox). I have been trained for years that new browser windows are located in the task bar and anything else simply goes against the natural order of things (or so my brain thinks). I'm thinking this is just a phase.

Oh, and let me say that my favorite extension is Spellbound. It's a spell checker for any web based form (like blog posts, online discussions)... like ieSpell. Second would be ForecastFox.

I was thinking back about all the things I learned this year and something popped into my head that made be cringe, and laugh a little. A few weeks ago, I ran my first focus group. My teammates and I were sharing a concept with a group of managers and looking for their perceptions, ideas, thoughts etc.

I was the lead and really wanted to make a connection with the group as I described the process. Then, a phrase came out of my mouth that I would later regret. I didn’t plan on it and I’m not sure where it came from, but it happened. I told them that I want them to “Think outside the box, inside the box and around the box�?. Ugh. Even reading it now I cringe.

As much as I don’t want to be a “typical�? consultant, I pretty much cemented that perception with a single phrase. It’s one of my lessons learned from 2004, one of many.

Seblogging: Reactions to technologies

After the recent discussion on the last post, I thought this was interesting and a little funny. It's Douglas Adams personal theory about why different people react so differently to technology:

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

• Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
• Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
• Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Updated: By the way, I just turned 31, so I've got four more years hang on to the exuberance.

My vacation doesn't officially end until I go to sleep tonight. So, I thought it was appropriate to post something a little funny.

If You Could See Into the Future

Via: Jeff Veen

More XML icons than you can shake a stick at

Disclaimer: The page linked above may cause seizures.

Just a little fun here. Do you think that one day, we'll all sit around and say "I remember the day when the buttons we used to subscribe to RSS feeds said to 'XML' on them! Those were the early days!" ?

Link via: Scoble

It's exciting to see some folks tracking-back and talking about the contest. I'm reminded of the movie "The Jerk", with Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson. Particularly, I laugh about the part where he's trying to make it on his own by working at Hartounian's service station- and the new phone books are delivered. To quote Navin:

The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this book every day! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity, you're name in print, that makes people. I'm in print! Things are going to start happening to me now!

Listen to the .wav file (474k) here

Of course, just as he utters these words in the movie, a sniper starts firing bullets at him after randomly picking his name out of the phone book. I'll hope for the best with my name in print and remember that Navin did finally make it big, but soon lost it all.