Sunday, November 4, 2007

MIA Yes, I am missing the UXnet confab in Chicago, and missing DUX 07 after participating in the first two versions. Frankly, this year's version costs too much for registration, and for hotel accommodations, especially for someone who's saving up $$s and vacation time for CHI 2008 in Florence next April. But Keith is there, and he'll keep us informed: Collaboration week in Chicago. I am fortunate to be in Chicago now, where all sorts of collaborations across the various UX-related disciplines are happening. Today and tomorrow are face-to-face meetings with other User Experience Network volunteers (at the IIT Institute of Design). Then several days of the "fowl" every-two-years AIGA-SIGGRAPH-SIGCHI shindig, DUX: Designing for User Experience conference. Then on Thursday, World Usability Day Chicago: November 8th is the one day this year we can all get along. [Keith Instone - IA, UX, Toledo, IBM, and less.] Nothing special scheduled for World Usability Day in my part of the world, although I still support the even in principle. After all, I still find the world to be pretty much unusable and much in need of design improvements. 7:33:51 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

They call it an upgrade I managed to sweat through installing the new Mac OS X, Leopard, yesterday. The first few tries were complete failures: on restart, my iMac insisted on ejecting the installation DVD, thus halting the process. So I called Apple support. While sitting on hold I decided to pop the installer into my old G4 PowerBook. . . and it worked (Yes, I bought the 5 installation family pack; we have four Macs here). So I was installing on the PowerBook when support finally came on and asked me to performs several checks on the disk. D'oh. But having conclusively demonstrated that there's nothing wrong with the disk, and having read some of the Apple support discussion postings (I'm not the only one with the premature ejection problem), I decided to bite the bullet and try installing from the PowerBook to the iMac in target mode. I am pleased to report that it worked, although the PowerBook was mightily confused when it restarted thinking that the iMac's drive was it's boot drive. . . I should have grabbed a screenshot of the PB's screen showing both systems live! The iMac seems relatively happy now, although there seems to be some funniness with the printer drivers. 4:08:21 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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