Blog of Ortz

As a followup to my post about Avril Lavigne’s new album, here’s an article on Slate.com that explains it very nicely:

http://www.slate.com/id/2165921/pagenum/all/#page_start (contains expletives)

No, really. He yells at you now. LINK

(Old link I forgot to post)

This is probably old, but I’ve never seen it until I was in Wordpress at school (IE) and saw a button at the bottom. It’s pretty much an “anything but Internet Explorer” site.

http://browsehappy.com/

Every now and then you come across an app that totally blows you away and you wonder how you got by without it. This is one of those apps.

Basically, it lets you rearrange the programs on the Windows taskbar. Since I like to keep my programs in the same order on the taskbar for productivity reasons, I don’t have to curse every time a program crashes and the order gets messed up.

http://www.worldusabilityday.org/

I’m a little late but people need to be more aware of usability issues in technology.

World Usability Day is sort of an initiative to ease the many daily interactions we have with technology. Check it out.

http://www.wearyourmusic.org/

They’re bracelets made out of guitar strings donated by guitarists. They’re all $100+ and some of the the bracelets from strings donated by big guitarists like Carlos Santana are $200. Which is pretty steep considering they paid about $5 for them. I guess you’re paying for their finger grease.

If you don’t want to spend a fortune, you can make one yourself. If you don’t play, then get some old strings from someone who does, or you can get a cheap set for 2 or 3 dollars at a music store. (Make sure you’re using silver solder. Lead is poisonous, you know.)