Dented Reality Notes

Not that I wanted to use a ridiculously-exagerated title like "PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption", or "Flash: 99% Bad", but I think it's getting to the point that someone's got to say something about the fact: Jakob Nielsen is running out of things to write about in his bi-weekly column, Alertbox.

Jakob used to be a fountain of information on usability techniques, concepts, tools and processes, but now he seems to have degenerated into selling his own products and moaning about (usually) related technologies and industries.

I hope that he reigns things in and starts writing some decent content again, he really did have some useful gems back in the early days. Maybe it's time to scale it back to once a month?

Drawing to a close of the study period, the next 2 are lined up already (NET23 and NET26) and all that's left of this period is 2 assignments - a mishmash of revised and rewritten arguments for REA11, and a 2000 word essay for NET12.

I will be very glad to see these 2 first units done, and hopefully I'll be able to see a lot more units fly by like these ones. My only other hope will be that now that I've done a couple, I'll figure out how to balance the rest of my life a bit better with study and work, since my personal life got a bit neglected in the last 3 months due to too much work and study, which makes Beau a dull boy :P