echo "hey, it works" > /dev/null

I recently found that you can find out what time it is in other parts of the world by entering 'what time is it in blah' into Google. I use Firefox with Google as my default search engine, so to find out the time somewhere it's just a matter of Cmd+K and asking. My 74 year old father in law's son lives in Boston, and his daughters in Melbourne and Perth, so I showed him what I thought was a pretty cool trick. This conversation followed:

Him: I can get that from the World Clock site.
Me: But this way you don't have to go to the site, just type it in the seach box.
Him: But I don't have to type anything on the World Clock site.

Yes, I would prefer to use the keyboard for everything if I could. I can touch type (and I'm so glad I can), but he can't. If my father in law could use the mouse for everything, he would. I guess that's one reason we don't get much email from him.

Do 1. Get a Benevolent Dictator 2. Make the Program Usable In Its Default State 3. Design Around Tasks 4. Write a Plug-In Architecture 5. User Testing, User Testing, User Testing!! Do Not 1. Develop Without A Vision 2. Join the Clone Wars 3. Leave the UI Design Up To The End User 4. Make the Interface a Thin Veneer over the Underlying Implementation 5. Treat UI Design as Babysitting Idiots

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