I am so glad that the subway are running again. We went apartment shopping yesterday and today. Each day we walked well over 100 blocks. We have found one that we really like. It is only 3 times what we were paying in TN. (I know you’re thinking 3x is a lot, but we were expecting 4x.) The appartment we found is also about twice the square feet of our apartment in TN. The only problem is that we wanted to apply today, but we can’t so the application is sitting on my desk here in the hotel.
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Stefan Rusek | w.bloggar test
w.bloggar test
Ok, so I’ve not used it much in the past, but I does integratewith RSS bandit so I hope to use it more in the future.
Stefan Rusek | Move’n to the city gonna me a lot of peaches
Move’n to the city gonna me a lot of peaches
After a long time, I am finally graduating from college. I am finishing up with a BS in Physics and Computer Science. I am graduating on December 17, 2005 at 2:00pm. You are invited to come, and we can all get together afterwards. Email me for more info if you would like to come.
Additionally, Aneta has applied for admission to New York University and has been accepted for this spring. She will continue to study Biology (Premed) and Music. I am super proud of her and excited for her.
I have accepted a job working for Fog Creek Software (http://www.fogcreek.com/). They are located in New York as well, so we will be moving to New York real soon.
Stefan Rusek | Claiming my blog as my own
Claiming my blog as my own
The above link does something, but I am not sure exactly what it does. I
am setting up my account on Technorati, and in order to claim my blog I have to
put that link in an entry. So click the link! Click it! CLICK IT!
Stefan Rusek | Firefox
Firefox
Recently I decided to give Firefox another try. Last time I used it, it
was at version 0.9 and I didn’t like it at all. 1.5 is the first version that
I can use and not feel annoyed all the time. There are of course things that I
don’t like about it, and I still use IE from time to time. Firefox with
IETab and IEView really makes this easy.
I am a big fan of software usability testing. I am not at the point in my
career where I can run large scale usability testing on my software, but I have
discovered a really useful way to gauge a piece of software. There are three
levels usability: Stefan level, Aneta level, my mom level. The first level is
so basic it usually doesn’t get mentioned. If I can use a program or the
UI is too annoying for me to continue using, it doesn’t get any more thought.
A good example of software like this is Vim and Emacs, most readers won’t
have heard of these two programs for good reason. I actually use Vim as my
primary editor on UNIX-like operating systems, but that doesn’t mean that
it was a lot of work to get to the point where I can do all kinds of crazy stuff
with it. Neither program is unusable, but neither is acceptable for general usage.
The second level is often referred to as the Aneta Test. My wife is very
intelligent, and I am so proud of her. She can do lots of task on the computer that
many other people just can’t. Very little software exists that gets past the
Stefan level that she can’t use, but in order to pass the Aneta Test an application
must be something that does not drive her nuts trying to use it. Some examples
that pass the Aneta Test are the Windows XP installation and FogCreek Software’s
CityDesk application (she just recently tried it and it works well for her).
The third level is often referred to as the My Mother Test (MMT). My
mom only recently got to the point where she isn’t constantly frustrated by
computers with the advent of Windows XP. It is the first OS to pass this test. Other
software that passes this test is Microsoft Office.
I mention all of this because Aneta was using my computer yesterday, and
in less than five minutes she had found 2 things in FireFox that make it unusable
for her. And it will probably take them another 5 years to pass the MMT.