I may be a bit late to the party, but I just joined Pinterest. Mostly it seems to be used for crafts, recipes, interior design, and fashion, and my friends that enjoy those things have been on it for a while (beating my early adopter techy friends at early adoption). After playing with it a [...]

If you’re using NVDA to test your website accessibility (which you should! (Note to self: actually do that on this blog…)), you may be as pleased as I am to discover that there are some alternative voices you can use in place of the default synthesizer. I had been using Microsoft Anna with the Microsoft [...]

I always find it a little jarring when I see email in my inbox from my parents with their full names. I don’t think of my parents as Carol and Larry, they’re mom and dad. It’s worse when I want to send it–I think every single time I write an email to my mother I [...]

I’m always thinking about design. Sometimes this leads to some really nerdy observations at inappropriate moments, but my friends say they love me anyway. Lately, having just finished (hah, “finished”…) moving, I’ve been thinking a lot about design with regards to furniture arrangement. It’s absolutely amazing how much less stuff I feel like I have [...]