An End to Spam
If you are getting overwhelmed with spam, you can put and end to it, and you won’t have to pay Bill Gates a nickel for every message you send, or wait until 2006. The solution? Something called a bayesian filter. read more…
Why Mail Filters are Doomed, and You Have to Have One
Spam. Everybody gets it. Everybody hates it. When will politicians discover this defenseless whipping boy? read more…
Affordance
Affordance refers to the perceived properties of an object, specifically those properties that affect how the object can be used. It’s one of those things best understood by an example. read more…
ATMs are Rude
Using an ATM is like visiting a web site back in 1995. And I’m not talking about the green text on a black background design. I mean the quality of the experience, and how the machine stubbornly insists that every visit is my first. The stupid machines refuse to remember anything about me. Just like web sites, before cookies were widely used. read more…