Thus, I'll no longer post much, if anything, to this blog, unless I make a trip to this part of the country.
From Seattle, With Love
After spending several decades in Silicon Valley, we have started a new adventure in the Seattle area. This blog chronicles our experience as we, a Silicon Valley IT couple, start afresh in the Bellevue-Kirkland-Redmond-Seattle neighborhoods.
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Goodbye, My Readers
Thus, I'll no longer post much, if anything, to this blog, unless I make a trip to this part of the country.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
How not to a Design User Interface.
User interface does not only have to do with computers; it is any interaction that a user — any human user — has with any system. The system of concern to this blog post is the road naming system used in and around Seattle, in King County.
Ridership interactions, unless completely straightforward, can be said to have failed. I have seen at least two problematic, sometimes comical, ridership situations in recent months.
Labels:
Seattle,
Transportation,
User Interface
Location:
Seattle, WA, USA
Saturday, April 25, 2015
The Message from Amazon and Microsoft ... from Seattle: Go Pacific Northwest.
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Snapshot of the Fortune article, 24 April 2015. |
What is interesting to note here is that both of these are headquartered in the Seattle region.
Add F5 Networks, Starbucks and Zillow that are also headquartered in the region to the mix, and you have a substantial hotbed of high-tech activity in this area. That is, even if you didn't count the other high-tech companies who have set up shop in this region, to name only a few: Facebook, Google, Oracle, ...
Labels:
Amazon,
Cloud,
Microsoft,
Seattle,
Silicon Valley
Location:
Seattle, WA, USA
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Happy New Year: Gift for the Internet Age.
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Internet Service in a Seattle Area Home |
The excitement did finally arrive into our home a couple of days ago, so that we can usher in the New Year at higher Internet (download) speeds! The accompanying image shows you that we now have a 100+ Mbps service in our home in the Seattle area.
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