Remember Clipster? It's the project that I worked on as part of the class I took at CMU. Well I finally got around to releasing the 0.5alpha for windows uers. MacOS X port is planned, but I'm in no hurry... It's alpha, so tread with care and lemme know if you actually use it. I've been using it at work for about a week, and it seems to do its job pretty well. I'll hopefully get to sever the ridiculous wxpython dependency soon as well. Head over here for more info if you're interested in being able to copy/paste texts and images between two machines.

So I was lying down on my bed about to go to sleep... then I finally had this idea that gave me enough to begin writing the executive summary for my master's thesis... Truly bizarre how these random ideas can hit me.... ^^;; Well, at least I'm going to have a pretty thorough summary and possibly a introduction done by thanks giving! This is exciting!

The statement's premise is to the effect that "usability comes first", that if an architectural decision doesn't immediately yield usable results, then the correct response is to change the architecture. This is incorrect. It confuses means and ends. Of course we need to end up with usable systems, but usability as such is not our goal, merely a necessary quality of the final product. Innovation is the goal. And our fundamental methodological belief is that consistent architecture is the way to accomplish innovation in this domain. If usability were the final goal, we would be tweaking web sites, not smelting copper. Usability without innovation represents failure. Innovation without usability merely means we aren't done yet.