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links for 2005-04-29

• Emerging Technology Conference: Lessons Learned While Building Basecamp
  (tags: process designing systems)

links for 2005-04-26

• Whitelabel.org: oh god, now I'm talking about tags, too
  (tags: tags social flickr)

links for 2005-04-22

• Font personalities
  (tags: type people personalities)
• Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review
  (tags: social tags)

links for 2005-04-21

• Monotype Foundation
  (tags: type typography prints Gill Monotype)

links for 2005-04-16

• XHTML: Using CSS to Style Tables
  I was stuck on something very obvious and googled...
  (tags: XHTML code CSS tables)

How do you sign-off from an instant message chat?

What is the acceptable way to stop an instant message conversation? I am quite new to IM. I have been using iChat for about 18 months, but only to talk with Clare and some friends. Recently I have been talking to work colleagues about projects and I like the immediacy of it.

Yet I find it difficult to end a conversation! Often there is a long pause, with no conversation as both people involved sit there deciding how to end it. After a while one of us will say they have to go, and try and end the chat. Often I am that person as I get twitchy with the chat window open and nothing going on. Does the other person think I am ignoring them? Or do not want to talk to them?

So I end with a 'got to go. bye'. Which seems just as rude...

links for 2005-04-14

• Color Schemer - Online Color Scheme Generator
  (tags: colour hex generate)

links for 2005-04-11

• New Del.icio.us popular sites
  (tags: del.icio.us tags popular)
• Headshift :: smarter, simpler, social
  (tags: social tags events)

links for 2005-04-08

• decodeunicode.org
  (tags: type fonts typeface unicode)

links for 2005-04-07

• Ajax takes off - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
  (tags: ajax code ruby basecamp)

links for 2005-04-06

• Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century | Online Bookshop ISBN 0712348123
  (tags: type typography letters southall)
• amaztype ||| zeitgeist
  (tags: social tags software amazon)
• Poynter Online - The Next Big Thing in Online Type
  (tags: type fonts typedesign microsoft)

links for 2005-04-05

• WLUG-Wiki - Focus Follows Mouse
  (tags: ui mouse window sorting usability)
• Spruced-Up Site Maps: A List Apart
  (tags: css code lists)

links for 2005-04-04

• icon | 021 | 21 most influential
  (tags: designers lists agree disagree)

links for 2005-04-01

• Spy: Talks: Cousins but not Siblings (University of Reading)
  (tags: readinguniversity nico webdesign design ui past future)
• Yahoo! Research Labs
  (tags: software technology yahoo beta)