Warmest Greetings,

:: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 ::

Just in time for the holiday season coming up in a few months...

Macromedia MX 2004

The paperback version of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger

Usability stuff:

Alan Cooper writes a new article describing the origin of user personas. They're an interesting tool for usability oriented design for software and websites. Cooper's company is famous for user personas. The article is interesting... The Origin of Personas

For more resources on the subject, I link to several here: (see the User Personas subheading)

More from our continuing 1st year anniversary celebration at Cre8asiteForums:

"Wow, a year already! Congrats to Kim and everyone at cre8asite, past and present! May you have many more..." Jill Whalen, HighRankings.com

"One of my many favorite threads is Ammon's "Quick Kick Start Guide to Search engine optimization" Should be required reading for all new SEO visitors." Neal, of Beanteacher.com - "Absolutely Amazing Aloha Hawaiian Shirts, Bowling Shirts, Plus Size Clothes, Retro & Vintage Clothing Styles, Hawaii Theme Gifts, & Plush Toys!"

The future is now:

5 Technologies That Will Change the World

"Several of the computers at the Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D facility in La Jolla, California, suffer from Type II diabetes. Ho, the head of medical informatics at the facility, expects that other servers will eventually come down with debilitating diseases of their own.

(snip)

By creating mathematical models of diseases such as diabetes, obesity, asthma, or arthritis in a computer, researchers can run virtual tests of their new drug candidates -- much in the way that an aeronautical engineer uses a computer simulation to imagine how an airplane design will perform once it's built. Often called "biosimulation," the approach compiles everything that is known about a given disease -- even down to the activity that takes place inside a single cell. And the computer models can be updated as scientists learn more about how the diseases work.
Researchers can anticipate bad reactions before they give a drug to animals or humans, and they can run many more tests on a computer than they could run in the real world. Ideally, biosimulation will help Johnson & Johnson and other pharmaceutical companies focus their efforts on the drug prospects that are most likely to succeed."

Instead of sitting on your butt complaining about what you dislike, create something you can be proud of.

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 8/27/2003 10:41:30 AM

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