http://sophistry.org Jeff Durland's views on certain matters, not excluding editorial communications, Web usability, writing, food, and wine. Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:54:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I start writing in this space again, there are a lot of things to talk about, but one rather obvious category is travel. This photo is from my recent trip to Paris. http://sophistry.org/2008/07/09/paris/ http://sophistry.org/2008/01/13/christmas/ Well, after about a month and a half with the iPhone, and the first real software update, and countless articles read, comments made, and people either asking for or just grabbing my iPhone just to play with it, I think I can make a considered judgement on this interesting little ... http://sophistry.org/2007/09/29/the-iphone-and-how-i-communicate/ American Scientist has an interesting article about how spam has become the main practical focus of computational linguistics and computational learning theory. It turns out that there are about 6 X 10^23 possible theoretical spellings, but probably only about a million of them are actually comprehensible to a human (that ... http://sophistry.org/2007/07/17/a-million-ways-to-spell-viagra/ With apologies to Dave Coustan, who is exploring the world of shower controls on his own blog, I offer this apparently well-designed approach to the world of the shower. You see, the inner ring controls the temperature, while the outer ring controls the flow. So you can set the shower ... http://sophistry.org/2007/07/16/interestingly-correct-shower-controls/ http://sophistry.org/2007/06/18/view-of-st-pauls-from-the-millennium-bridge/ A new set of [video testimonials](http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/468-new-basecamp-customer-videos-coudal-partners-threadless-organizedwisdom) for 37signals and Basecamp is out. I recently started using [Basecamp](http://basecamphq.com/) for a project (the first time I've officially used the product, and I didn't even have to convince the client--someone else did). It has been a dream to use, simple, intuitive, and everything ... http://sophistry.org/2007/06/18/first-impression-of-basecamp/ http://sophistry.org/2007/06/02/view-from-the-puck-building/ So, after hemming and hawing over my next career move, I've decided to head back to the nine-to-five world. I recently accepted a position as Content Strategist with [IconNicholson](http://iconnicholson.com/) here in New York. I certainly value the time I've spent as a freelancer, and I've learned a lot of things ... http://sophistry.org/2007/05/29/your-host-gets-a-real-job/ Last week's New Yorker had an interesting article on technology, how we tend to forget that technology is not just the latest digital doodads in our lives, but also the things that became part of our lives a long time ago, such as teapots and wheels. Basically any device that ... http://sophistry.org/2007/05/14/128/