Is it just me?   Or does the new Yahoo!7 search bar look like a cigarette?



Not convinced?  The search bar at My Yahoo!7 is even less subtle:



Don't worry, I'm not one of those smokers who tries to quit and then sees cigarettes everywhere... I'm not even a smoker.  It just struck me as an odd choice for a visual motif.

...and it's not even the oh-so-cool, Breakfast at Tiffany's kind of cigarette.  Google would be the Audrey Hepburn of search cigarettes.  Yahoo7 are more the Danny Crane of search.

So I recently got my first Bluetooth phone.  The whole purpose of the phone was to keep my calendar on the road in sync with my shiny new notebook, and it worked out OK actually.

Being a nerd I was curious about the Bluetooth protocol and how it works, the following is an architectural overview of how the protocol is used to sync calendar and todo items:

Outlook: oh Hai, iz me
Phone: Hai
Outlook: haz new itemz?
Phone: ya
Outlook: o rly?
Phone: ya rly, Lulz
Outlook: Can has new itemz?
Phone: here iz itemz rite now, k
Outlook: I has new itemz2
Phone: Srsly?
Outlook: ya, here iz them
Phone: we kool? awsum. kthxbai

(I know, every year!  and you will see it next year too so long as I am able to type :) )

Because 31 oct == 25 dec

Listening to: You am I, Hourly Daily

In UX terms, Dell's web site is pretty good.  Three and a half stars in my book.  However, I don't know about you, but I think the following post-purchase survey question should be select all that apply, rather than select one.

I just saw this question come up while my sister just ordered her new Dell Inspiron and I had to screencap it...

But Mr. Dell, I cried... What do I choose if I want to use it for MySpace, biological research *and* missile technology research...