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Experience as a Left-hander.

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

As a left-handed person in a right-handed world, I sometimes just adjust to certain things in life. When something needs to be cut, I hand the scissors to my wife or to whomever happens to be nearby. Scissors are a frustration I’ve come to deal with, but not everything made for right-handers has to be enforced upon those of us in our right mind. (Okay, I had to use that lame left-handed joke—I’m sorry.)

I recently decided to use my left hand as my mouse hand after years of giving in to using my right hand, and I can say that it feels much better to be able to do so. Here’s a few remarks I have about it and some things that have helped along the way.

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Google Reader’s Crappy User Interface

Friday, October 30th, 2009

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I use Google Reader for my RSS feeds. (Yes, I know Twitter killed RSS, and I’m just dragging its corpse around.) In fact, I love it. Between the web interface and Byline for iPhone, I still depend on gReader for a lot of my information consumption.

That aside, Google sucks at designing intelligent and accessible user interfaces. I ran into one such example of suckage tonight.

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WordPress for iPhone 2

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

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I’m writing this post from the newly-released WordPress for iPhone 2 app. I haven’t given the app a full run-through, but these are my first impressions.

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Life with a Gimp

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

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Bad luck struck over the weekend. My Border Collie, Skyler, got hit by a truck. She survived, but she looks like she will permanently suffer from the accident.

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Drew County Fair Rodeo Pictures

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

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I was asked to take a few pictures of the Drew County Rodeo this past weekend, for future promotional needs. I brought my camera and my two AlienBee lights. I took a few pictures from the events, and most of the barrel racing contestants. (The barrel racers had predictable locations within the range of my lights, and that helped keep blur to a minimum.)

There’s been an unexpected response to order these photos, so I wanted to let you know that free downloads of the original images, as well as paid prints, are available in my photo gallery, so go take a look.