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June, 1999
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Update
Readership expanded so much this month that my website host ran out of hits and megabytes per day. As a result, I have made some quick simplifications, starting with the quail graphic that usually adorns the banner above. I appologize for those who have received "hard limit" errors; I trust that this change, plus some others planned, will get Ask Tog back in range. This is the downside of web success: As Steve Case, the CEO of AOL remarked when they had their growth spurt two years ago, "We're like the dog that caught the car."
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Feature Article
When Interfaces Kill
Usually, bad interfaces just produce frustration. Sometimes, though, a bad interface can kill. That's exactly what happened to folk singer John Denver, when his small plane crashed into Monterey Bay.
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Reader Mail
This Month's AskTog Column
Tog responds to a variety of questions, from why web browsers insist on crashing at just the wrong moments ("because we want them to") to why Apple screwed up the Quicktime 4.0 player so badly.
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Offsite
 Edit This Page
Dave Winer is calling for a new return to simplicity on the web. Today's kluge of kluges is barring those who might inject new ideas and energy into the Internet from gaining access in any reasonable way. Tog and I know this only too well: the spell checker on our web composition system is so brain damaged it can't recognize such complicated words as she’ll and I’ll, turning a one-minute process into a 10 minute process, a process that therefore often accidentally gets overlooked.
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Offsite
Apple's Quicktime 4.0 Player: Bah!
the folks at Isys Information Architects have written a scathing review of Apple's new player. In Tog's opinion, it is richly deserved. Check it out, then read Tog's own review in this month's AskTog column.
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Offsite
Feeling good about yourself
Here's a web page that should make you feel really, really good about that latest disaster your company just posted:
X-10, the Supersite for Home Automation
There, now don't you feel better?
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Travel
Japan on $1000 a day
If you are hanging out in Kyoto, make sure your socks are darned. And don't even think about eating the inside-out fish. George Bush isn't the only one that can't take the Kyoto kaiseki. |
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| A special thanks to Peter Cooper for the new anchor gif that indicates in-page jumps (as seen at the top of the Ask Tog columns). Thanks also to last month's beta readers: Bernard Farrell, Ed Cannon, David Eisenberg, Todd Lehman, Hugh Fisher, and Henk Jan Nootenboom, Mitchell Gass, Phil Stripling, Paul Haahr, Bernard Farrell, Cindy Alfieri, Joshua Brauer, Bill Kearney, Dan Romanchik, Craig Oshima, Walter A. Aprile, and Hannah Kain. |
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