Author Archives: zacharyc

From Nathan and Isabelle

By zacharyc | Published: April 20, 2011

Post card from france:

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Donald Norman On Usability

By zacharyc | Published: April 6, 2011

Here is a great video (it is long, over an hour) of a talk Donald Norman gave in 2009. (sadly, flash required)

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Changes

By zacharyc | Published: March 30, 2011

This site is undergoing some changes. Firstly, you may notice that I have changed the homepage to have a static home page. It allows me to introduce myself to people who may want to just find out who I am without forcing my current thoughts on them. Secondly, I’m working on consolidating my Categories and [...]

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Social Beings

By zacharyc | Published: March 16, 2011

I saw this piece randomly. It’s a TED talk form David Brooks (NY Times columnist) about the evolution of our social society. I picked up on it because my interest in college really focused around the power of social networks. This piece goes a little deeper. It talks beyond even our conscious networks, to our [...]

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Properties in C#

By zacharyc | Published: March 2, 2011

I’m a new C# programmer. I’m using it for a project at work. Doing an ASP.NET MVC project. So far I’ve been very happy with the language. It has some nice stuff built in. ASP.NET MVC is pretty nice too. It’s almost as easy to use as rails. So, all in all, I’m pretty happy, [...]

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Post Card: Newport

By zacharyc | Published: November 28, 2010

Here is a card from my mom sent from one of my favorite places, Newport, RI.

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Post Card: Edinburgh

By zacharyc | Published: November 28, 2010

This is a great card from Mike and Kerry, sent while visiting a friend in Edinburgh.

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The Self Portrait Photo Assignment

By zacharyc | Published: November 9, 2010

I’ve been searching for pictures of myself that I really like. And while I have a couple from friends that I find rather fun: Anyway, I don’t have enough. And I’m vein. So this leads me to a self assigned project. The Self Portrait Photo Assignment. As with any assignment there are rules. Here are [...]

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Sleeping your Mac with a Microsoft Ergo 4000 Keyboard

By zacharyc | Published: October 25, 2010

One of my friends, who will remain nameless for the purpose of this discussion, convinced me start playing around with a Microsoft Natural Ergo Keyboard 4000. I got one at work, then I bought one for the home and I’ve been pretty happy with it. There are just a couple of things missing from my [...]

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Halloween Stuff

By zacharyc | Published: October 25, 2010

I got up this morning and started looking through facebook. I got upset that so many people had carved pumpkins this past weekend, but I had not. For the record, I’m not a huge pumpkin guy. Carving one involves getting your hands dirty which has never been one of my strong suits. Anyway, so I [...]

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