Author: Christopher Fahey
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Tri, Tri Again.
At 11:01am Sunday morning, in 90-degree heat, I crossed the finish line in Central Park and completed my year-long goal of finishing the New York City Triathlon. I was exhausted and frustrated (more on that later), but at that moment, as soon as I stopped running and realized I was done, I was overcome with…
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Quantity vs. Quality in a Design Process
The NeXT Cube and the Apple Mac Cube. Are they iterations? Discussing his upcoming biography of Steve Jobs, author Leander Kahney describes Apple’s prototyping process: It’s a process where they discover the product through constantly creating new iterations. A lot of companies will do six or seven prototypes of a product because each one takes…
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OMMA Nom Nom Nom
I am going to be speaking today, June 17th, at the OMMA Publish conference here in New York City, on a panel entitled “Optimizing for Performance: Adding Value to Your Site”. OMMA is focused on online media marketing and advertising, publishing several trade magazines and sponsoring several conferences each year in these areas. My panel…
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Design Council Counsellor
There is an institution in the United Kingdom called the Design Council. A government-funded organization, the Council’s mission is “to help UK managers become the best users of design in the world, supported by the most skilled and capable design professionals.” This objective makes it sound like they’re a professional guild or advocacy organization, like…
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Flickr Usr
I’ve always loved Flickr, but I’ve never had the time to really use it as diligently as many of my friends apparently do. The Flickr Uploadr software always seemed a little wonky to me, and I didn’t savor the idea of sorting my photos locally in folders or in iPhoto and then having to repeat…
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My Third Race
I am currently training for my first triathlon, the New York Triathlon on July 20. (Holy crap, that’s only 9 weeks away!) Anyway, last weekend I competed in the Prospect Park Mother’s Day Duathlon right here in Brooklyn. This was my second duathlon (I ran my first one last August), and this time I did…
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Spring Ahead
Two months ago, I tweeted the following cry for help: Over the last several months I have made some tough choices about what to devote my time to. And “blogging”, unfortunately, didn’t make the cut. In short, I have been extremely busy doing things other than blogging. In the next week or two I will…