My friend Pauli Loeffler recently recorded a bunch of duckies blocking traffic near the Edmond Dog Park.
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Author / Ronald Huereca
Join the User Experience Revolution
This post is co-authored by Susan Simkins.
Paul Boag, a well-known and highly respected user experience advocate, has just released a new book, User Experience Revolution.
The book takes aim at systemic organizational issues that actively breed an anti-user culture, whether it is intended or not.
What is User Experience?
User experience encompasses the user interaction with your products or services and the emotions that result.
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A History of Easy Updates Manager – A WordPress Plugin
Easy Updates Manager began as with any WordPress plugin: a line of code.
My History with Easy Updates Manager
For me, it started with a problem. I inherited an agency problem where plugins were modified and the only solution was upping the version number in the core plugin file.
As I pondered a solution, I had some initial thoughts that others would find such a tool useful.
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Life is the inconvenience between birth and death.
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Everytime I share with someone I’ve written a book about Fight Club, I’m reminded by that person that the first two rules of Fight Club are you can’t talk about it. Okay… Bullshit.
First, Fight Club is a fictional club. Debate over.
Second, we were never part of this fictional club. Debate over.
Third, if you consider yourself part of this fictional club and willing to lay down the law for a character that never existed… well, fuck you.
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The Cause of Mental Illness
All of the following is my own opinion on the cause of mental illness. No facts. No published sources. Just me.
The True Cause of Mental Illness
Let’s talk about survival. Everybody has fight or flight built into them. When a person is confronted with conflict, it’s either fight or flight.
It’s what I call the change cycle. Person A wants to change your behavior, so you are either submissive (flight), or you try to to change Person A’s behavior (fight).
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Julie
“You have to consider your brother.” her former employer said.
“What?” Julie asked in protest.
“He’s been diagnosed, as you are aware.”
“It’s not exactly a death sentence.” Julie stated.
Julie was currently working for a well-established law firm. She began actually enjoying practicing law.
“He’s a liability, and I think you can understand that.”
Julie’s temper hit the boiling point.
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The Russian
“But the death penalty isn’t even in effect anymore!” she screamed.
She was right. This was good ol’ Cali-forn-i-a.
“It was in 2014. Putting prisoners to death is against the law there.”
“Exactly!” I screamed back. “He’s been sitting there for a good ten years, tops. He’ll be grumpy and ready to talk.”
“Who are you after?” Julie demanded.
“Alexei Ivanov is the man I’m after.
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