How To Post A News Item To Your Weblog. I just did ... in my previous weblog post.

This is not something I do regularly though I'm not sure why. There are certainly plenty of cool documentation items worth mapping to my home page.

A case, perhaps, of 'physician, heal thyself.'

feedback:   7:59:38 PM    

Matching design, ergonomics, function and elegance to our 21st century machines is rarely a corporate goal. This is not due to unwillingness - these characteristics sell big. The sad truth is that we have very few designers who are technically literate and very few technicians who love design. Steve Jobs, anyone? 

Keeping in Touch with the Times.

"It was bound to happen — others had somewhat similar designs, but now there’s a high-quality, touch-screen wristwatch being produced in Switzerland — and I can report that it’s very, very cool....

But, the T-Touch is solid — a stainless steel case and bracelet — and it’s smart too.

As for the features, with a touch of the screen the T-Touch can tell you the time (obviously), date, temperature, barometric pressure, altitude, direction (compass) and it also controls alarm and chronograph (stopwatch) functions. My favorite function is the compass. I’ve seen watches that rotate hands when you press a button, but the T-Touch rotates then combines hands into a straight arrow pointing device, then the arrow floats on what seems to be a cushion of air as it points north. You also see your exact bearings readout on the LED screen. Really neat.

There are a lot of watches that can do some of these things, but none I’ve seen can do them with such finesse. Touching the screen is a light tap on the sapphire crystal, not a heavy push (or two) on a small button hidden somewhere on the side of other watches. The T-Touch is the kind of electronic device you’d expect from Swiss craftsmen without giving away the complexity inside. You have to try it for yourself to understand what I mean....

My big problem with the T-Touch? They’re charging too little for it. I even told the Tissot folks so. Tissot has set the U.S. retail price at $595." [MSNBC.com]

feedback:   7:49:34 PM    

Happily, Jake Savin tipped me off to a better way to clear out our weblogs, hence How To Clear Our Your Weblog - The Advanced Course. Go ahead. Trash it all and start over ... because you can.

Along the way, I corrected a really lamebrain error within my original How To Clear Out Your Weblog. I couldn't resist telling on myself, though. Nothing works right, not even documentation.

(So you just keep at it. Keep at it. Keep at ....)

feedback:   6:16:24 PM