This week, a video of a 12-year-old girl coming out as gay to her Mormon congregation in Eagle Mountain, Utah, went viral — and it’s easy to understand why. Savannah is adorable. She wears a red tie, which is already a
statement, since wearing pants to church as a woman can be controversial. She stands in front of a room of adults delivering her testimony about how her Heavenly Parents “did not mess up when they gave me freckles. Or when they made me
gay. God loves me just this way because I believe that he loves all of his creations.”
Our second holiday in Newport and a chance to hunt for a handful of the caches we’d missed last time around. A short walk by my partner fleeblewidget and I yesterday evening brought us to an easy find here on a road we’ve walked several times
before. TFTC.
A gentle walk yesterday evening brought us here (although we briefly overshot, engaged as we were deep in conversation and having forgotten to enable the proximity beeper on my GPSr).
Spent a little time hunting in a convincing-looking place that turned out to be wrong before the hint gave us a clue and – after the peeling back of some branches to be able to see the
thing that the hint referred to – sent us in the right direction. Lovely night for it, and we managed to get back to our accommodation in good time to avoid the start of the rain.
His nuclear research helped a judge determine that former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko had been assassinated – likely on Putin’s orders. Just months after the verdict, the
scientist himself was found stabbed to death with two knives. Police deemed it a suicide, but US intelligence officials suspect it was murder…
An easy find while taking my nephew out for a morning walk in his pushchair. Poor little fella fell asleep before we got to the GZ, though, knocked out perhaps by this morning’s early
heat! Nice and quiet this early on a Sunday: not a muggle in sight.
Me and mine are staying just down the road for a holiday – not part of last night’s noisy wedding party, though!
Something that jumped at me, recently, was a rendering dilemma that browsers have to encounter, and gracefully handle, on a day-by-day basis with little, to no, standardization.
Take the following page for example. You have 4 floated divs, each with a width of 25%, contained within a parent div of
width 50px. Here’s the question: How wide are each of the divs?
The problem lies in the fact that each div should be, approximately, 12.5px wide and since technology isn’t at a level where we can start rendering at the sub-pixel level we tend to
have to round off the number. The problem then becomes: Which way do you round the number? Up, down, or a mixture of the two? I think the results will surprise you, as they did me…
Some people think that usability is very costly and complex and that user tests should be reserved for the rare web design project with a huge budget and a lavish time schedule. Not
true. Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running as many small tests as you can afford.
In earlier research, Tom Landauer and I showed that the number of usability problems found in a usability test with n users is:
N (1-(1- L ) n )
where N is the total number of usability problems in the design and L is the proportion of usability problems discovered while testing a single user. The typical
value of L is 31%, averaged across a large number of projects we studied. Plotting the curve for L =31% gives the following result…
