Archive - January, 2008

Remind Me Again…

January 4, 2008 in Boston with 0 Comments

Why do I live in Boston? Without getting into details, I spent 2+ hours on the road tonight, caught in mind-bendingly bad traffic (dueling accidents on rt 93), which delayed me so badly, I was never able to get to my destination on time.

Boston Traffic
photo from dahveed76 on flickr

To make matters worse, while trying to re-route myself to get out of the jam, I got caught confused in that vortex of an area where up is down and north is south simultaneously (if you are from here, you know where I mean), and got even further off track…reversing direction four times before finally putting myself in the right direction. As a man, and one that is pretty good with directions, this was particularly frustrating. However, there is this magical area in the near the vicinity of 128/95/93 that can completely spin you around and leave you helpless if you come in a little further north or south than you think. Tonight, these roads beat me. Badly.

Oh yeah, and it was 5 degrees here this morning for the second day in a row.

Boston Traffic
photo from Keith Emmerich on flickr

But for some reason, when I finally made it over the Tobin bridge on my way back home, the skyline made me feel alright.

Boston Traffic
photo from ReneS on flickr

I guess I’ll stay here for now.

Google Analytics

January 3, 2008 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

This is a niggling usability/layout thing that has irked me nearly every day for the past six months. The issue is minor, but irritating to me as someone that *thinks* they have at least some eye for form and function.

Here it is…

Between work and home, I have a half dozen or so Google accounts covering my Gmail, adwords, adsense, and various analytics accounts…again for my personal and work web analytics. So if I am logged into Gmail, and go to log into analytics for one of my work related accounts, I am cookied and need to “sign in as a different user”. No big deal, I totally understand what is happening and why this is the way it is.

What drives me nuts though, is that on this login screen, Google gives the same weight and importance to this “sign in as a different user” link, as it does to the “I cannot access my account” link…in fact it puts the latter ABOVE the former, which causes me to inadvertently click the wrong link nearly 40% of the time.

analytics.png

I guess there is not much more to this post than that, and I am probably over-reacting here…but it annoys me. These links (to me) should not be of equal weight, or if they need to be of equal weight, should at least be vertically reversed and spaced a bit better.

The end.

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