jasmo's WebLog : random

First celeb sighting...

jasmo — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 08:41:00 GMT

While we were out with developers for drinks, we ran into Pat Morita, aka Mr. Miyagi. Not sure why I thought that was worth mentioning, but I'm taking it as a sign we're going to have a good week.

Jason discovers Blogging...

jasmo — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 07:37:00 GMT

This will sound incredibly newbie-ish for bloggers out there, but for the first time I really realized what it meant to have people commenting on my blog - and it compelled me to reply (and even kicked off some thinking for future posts).

In the immortal words of Neo, "Woa."

Random morsels

jasmo — Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:53:00 GMT

I'm such a slacker. I haven't posted in days!

I actually was writing up a post about video games and user experience, but I failed to post it because of the overall level of pretentiousness. If I can clean that up to make an actual point I may post it soon.

Paolo Marcucci's session browser for the PDC seems to have gone RTM over the weekend (or technically, RTW). He's been dealing with performance issues, and then made some tradeoffs of footprint vs. load times. I think he's gone the right way (at least with what he has to work with). Check it out.

Looks like we're coming into the homestretch leading to PDC. Lots of work remaining to be done on the slides (and lots of scratching of heads and asking, "Well, what 3 things will people take away from this?" and so on) as well as getting demos up and running to show off. I'm particularly giddy on that point, and I'll actually be doing one of the demos in the CLI323 talk.

I'm starting to drink the Kool-aid myself - in fact, the only thing I'm not excited about is Los Angeles, but I'm sure it'll have it's moments too. But here I'll get to meet tons of developers, talk with folk about our work in Longhorn, and very likely get a ton of feedback on it. Now, if I can only get some sleep before we get there...

PDC & Intrigue!

jasmo — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:38:00 GMT

Alright, looks like I'm finally set for a hotel. I have one booked, and I'm working on actually setting something else up that would be cheaper for Microsoft and closer to the convention center - but at the very least, I have a place to sleep! It's an unbelievably good stress relief (sleeping in doorways in L.A. was not my idea of a good time).

I've also started to work out all the various people I wanted to catch up with and so on at the PDC. In addition in participating in talk CLI 323 (which is shaping up nicely!) I'll be in the UX Lounge (or so I'm lead to believe) where I'll be able to chat on that topic as well as many others. I'll post here what times I'll actually be around. As that usually gets changed at the last minute, expect to see something up on the 26th or so. There will also be a ton of other great user experience folks to chat to, many very knowledgeable on the topics the PDC is going to be about... More on that later.

It looks like people were fairly interested in my "quick and dirty" usability post - I think I'll add some more of that type of commentary in the near future. As usual, I'll try and keep it relevant and entertaining (of course, I have no idea if the first was...).

Obligatory "testing" post

jasmo — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 06:56:00 GMT

Ok, here's my first blog post: foo. This is quite literally my first try, and my understanding is that if I mess something up, it'll be that way, forever. So, no pressure. Well, I'm guessing that's more than enough noise (and as little signal as possible).