My friend Dawn sent me a link to a great interview with one of my favorite authors, Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle). Stephenson provides his always witty, insightful and sometimes flip answers to a iety of topics surrounding and including the themes set forth in his books. A great read even for non-fans.
Yearly Archives: 2005
Blinksale
Yet another web application to replace one that lives on my computer. Blinksale is a new web app that is designed to help small businesses create, send and manage invoices. I have played around with it a little and it is killer so far. It is very much like a 37 Signals product so if you love Basecamp, Backpack and run a small business you will love this. I have been a long time user of Customer Tracker to manage invoices for my Consulting Business. It has not seen an update in ages and I get the sense that the developer has no plans to make improvements any time soon. Therefore, I am going to give Blinksale a trial run and see how it does.
Simple
The design philosophy behind this site is… Simple. Simple is the word that best describes it. I want to return to the idea that a proper web site should feature information – unobscured. It should have clean, non-serif text that is easy to read and fast to load. The elements within each page should only exist to enrich the content. Once a navigation metaphor is established, it should remain constant throughout the site and never deviated from. Efficiency and consistency so simplistic it is elegant.