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New York City & Usability
June 21, 2002
Until 10 months ago I used to live in and work in New York. A lot has changed since then: I moved to suburban Northern Virginia, bought a car and been blessed with a beautiful daughter. Last weekend, I finally found time to take the whole family to visit New York for the first time since I left. It turned out to be a pretty miserable experience. FULL TEXT...The Beauty of Decay
May 30, 2002
I often find myself torn between the desire for the new and the attraction to the old. It's something I inherited from studying architecture I suppose, where one is constantly creating something new with the knowledge that time will have an effect on that which is created. Having worked on both physical and virtual structures, I often find myself reflecting on the nature of the passage of time registering on an object as decay. FULL TEXT... |