Archive for April, 2008
Message on a bottle
02Apr08
Last weekend, I tried to buy some vitamins. My selection method was pretty simple: for a given price level and ingredients, I prefer a small gelcap to a large capsule. But the design of many bottles prevents you from telling how big the actual pills are. For instance, the bottles are often opaque, and some […]
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Too much information
01Apr08
For whatever reason, some people feel compelled to include a bunch of extra text in their documents, rather than simply referencing or linking to the original source. Worse, this information is frequently retyped from memory or copied from an older version of the data. This behavior frustrates customers, since they have to re-process the extra […]
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