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OMG. Why did I not see this before? OnLife.

I was looking for some information discussing the intersection of extreme programming (which our development team is adopting) and user experience, and I ran across this selection (in Google's book search) from Extreme Programming for Web Projects (by Doug Wallace, Isobel Raggett, and Joel Aufgang).

Get your graphic designers off Macintoshes! We are big Mac fans and have a great deal of respect for the operating system (OS), but it is a fact of life that most Web team [sic] use Windows. Furthermore, Macs are brighter than PCs. So many times we have seen a design created and shown to a customer on a Mac and then found that it was too dark for the general audience, which is 95 percent Windows users. It pains us to say it, but every Web development tool that we have seen is either not available for Mac or has a perfectly good equivalent on Windows. Photoshop and Illustrator are identical on both platforms. The only role with an argument for having a Mac is the tester and then only if the customer has selected to support the platform. I'm curious as to what folks think of this. In a discipline which tries to include a worker-focused environment (scroll down to "ExtremeEnvironment") I think that the designer should be able to use the hardware and software that makes him/her the most productive (and happiest).

I'm no sure how old this is, but it's a valuable resource. The Font Guide For Webmasters gives a list of some of the fonts which are available on the Mac and on Windows, and gieves some tips on usage in CSS.

via eHub: Who thought that calling a webservice gookbox was a good idea? I mean, I'm only a GenXer, and I seem to remember that "gook" is a fairly vulgar slang term (IIRC) for Asian (see WordNet).

Wow. Via digg, a video of the world's largest nuclear bomb being exploded.

So postulates CNN in Sleep Inertia. And be careful when waking folks up - some people are mean drunks. :-) [Thanks Jim]None

Wow, Adelina started pre-school yesterday. She had a good day yesterday - a bit teary when she realized that mommy wasn't staying, but then she had a great time! Today... man, she did NOT want to get out of bed!! :-) After we got her calmed down and reminded her about her new friends, she perked up and was out the door with few problems. Jodi dropped her off at school and she linked arms with her classmates and off she went!

I'm "watching" the SteveNote over on TUAW and MacRumors.

I *heart* StarGate.

Nothing really visible from out there, but redmonk.net is now running Wordpress 2.0. Yummy.

Yes, I want a MacBook Pro. Yes, the name sucks. "PowerBook" was such a strong brand - and it came about long before the CPU had "power" in it, so why drop it now?

Man, neato stuff in the new GB. I wonder how they're doing the nifty animations? wmf thinks maybe it's a Flash track in a QuickTime movie.

Hanging out on this old post, about an even older site of mine. Found the site in question and got it back online.

Man, I am SO BEHIND on the blogging thing. Since I last posted we've had Christmas, visits from family, a trip to the Christmas fair, and today Adelina started school. Wow.