So today has been my first official back-to-work day and I started it off by pruning the two weeks off my Dilbert desk calendar. In a somewhat appropriate event (as a followup to PDC) I found a strip that definately reminds me of working with my bestest artist in the whole wide world (I have to kiss her ass because she works for eBay merchandise):

As a programmer, developing an interface is a hard and almost impossible task. You design the guts way before you design the look and the input — and you assume that the user will be able to fill-in-the-blank the remainder of the puzzle. Then you have two options: Hope its intuitive and simple enough (so you label an input field with an acronym nobody outside your industry understands).. or you do what I do – write a paragraph, fully knowing that nobody is ever going to read or even understand your hyper-extended run-on sentance.

Thank you Scott Adams!

P.S. You could buy the iMate JasJar for $149 at the PDC during the keynote. You don’t want to know the retail price.

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