hmm - rainy sunday afternoon

Its a rainy sunday afternoon and i decided to drop by, for the sake of old times. A few rants first.
1. Information overload is here...ive got 3 books to complete reading, plus a thousand blogs, websites, youtube - the list keeps growing. Unfortunately, time is not an elastic entity.
2. Broadband connection. MTNL, it has been so far. Was pretty good till about four days back when it suddently decided to go beserk. There would be five minutes of acyual connectivity in an hour. Today has been better, but the unpredictability scares me.
3. As an information architect/usability analyst - there's the world out there waiting to be discovered. I have hardly touched the surface and knowing how much there is to know, thrills me and scares me at the same time. Pretty UIs are the last things girrl!

OK - now for some good reads:
1. Mythical Man-Month - Examples are dated, but the concepts hold good to this day. Will add to your ammunition when dealing with a difficult project manager, and help you if you are the project manager.

2. Thoughts on Interaction Design by Jon Kolko - Practical, to-the-point, humourous

3. Interaction Design Patterns - Jenifer Tidwell. Need I say more?

ugleah.com - enjoyed reading the examples, and the presentation on paper prototyping.

Google reader - had discovered it sometime back, now that bloglines is officially websensed - have reverted to it once again.

Nuff for today. Have decided to update this blog more frequently...

Designing for 90%

Wanted to check this out at the Cooper Hewitt Musuem, but as luck would have it, its closed this sunday:(

http://www.cooperhewitt.org/VISIT/