Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 Released

It just keeps getting better. This time with much better default icons and copy/pasting of images - and a ton of small fixes and improvements.

Josh Porter (of UIE), in Testing the Three-Click Rule, determines that the long-standing and almost thoughtlessly accepted rule of no more than three clicks to any content is not necessarily supportable by real user testing. Good, I never really liked that “rule” anyway.

Joseph Neubauer article on building enduring client relationships.

• Surrounding Yourself with Good People

• Investing in Your People

• Listening to Your People

• Aligning Culture and Mission Through Leadership Development

• Keeping Your Commitments

Selectutorial: CSS selectors is another fine piece from Maxdesign.

An important distinction between usable and useful. They’re not the same things.

Fundamentally, a site is not effective if it doesnÂ’t provide the information and tools that users need, regardless of how well structured and implemented it is.

This morning I spotted a an article on the resurgence of classic video games and sent it over to Steve. Didn’t notice that Bryan had scooped me. 8 years and we’re sometimes still on the same page.

Okay, not really, but if the Digilux 2 is any indication of where Leica is going, I just may want to try “analog digital photography.” Just add interchangable lenses, an optical viewfinder and a little bigger sensor. Maybe the next rev will be the one.

USATODAY says ‘Family Guy’ may return with 35 new episodes in 2005.

This list of MySQL Gotchas can come in handy. It also points out some interesting design decisions by the MySQL folks. Some of which are quite annoying.

Since buying a 300D, I spend a lot of time reading the Canon forums at dpreview.com. To save everyone the trouble of reading all 100,277 messages, I’ll sum it up for you…

• Spend around $1,600 on a long lens so you can take pictures of ducks. Lots of them.

• Spend around $1,600 on a wide lens so you can take pictures of flowers - really close-up.

• Argue endlessly that the Canon 300D is a “professional” camera - or that it’s not.

• Take a macro shot of your eye and wait for everyone to respond with “WOW!”

• Find a misprinted document from Canon stating that FEC is included. Then demand that a firmware upgrade is released IMMEDIATELY! which “fixes” it by enabling in-camera FEC dammit! It doesn’t matter that you’d never even heard of FEC when you bought the camera.

• Take another picture of a duck. Use a squirrel if a duck is not immediately available.

• Use the phrase “L glass” frequently, even if you don’t know the difference between that and some cheap Tamron knockoff.

• Ask which lens is better, the 50-300mm f4 zoom or the 20mm 1.8 prime.

• Make sure you always include an exhaustive list of your equipment in each post, but never post any actual photographs.

• Buy the 50mm 1.8 and talk about how it’s now your favorite lens. And what a deal at only $70!

• Buy the 16-35L and talk about how it’s now your favorite lens. Don’t mention the fact that it cost you nearly $1,400

• Whatever you do, don’t talk about capturing wonderful images. Stick with arguing incessantly about equipment details.