Comments for kuniform http://kuniform.org Jason Kunesh's thoughts on interaction design, accessibility, and living life with passion! Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:13:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on A peaceful, easy feeling from RailsConf by Peter Krantz http://kuniform.org/2006/06/25/a-peaceful-easy-feeling-from-railsconf/#comment-7886 Peter Krantz Sun, 02 Jul 2006 14:29:29 +0000 http://kuniform.org/2006/06/25/a-peaceful-easy-feeling-from-railsconf/#comment-7886 Hi Jason! Thank you for a great presentation at RailsConf. It was very nice meeting you. I have started working on a port of my Python Accessibility Analysis Kit (http://peterkrantz.com/projects/paakt) to Ruby. The idea is to be able to add something like "assert_basic_accessibility" to a functional test (that renders a complete page). Hi Jason! Thank you for a great presentation at RailsConf. It was very nice meeting you. I have started working on a port of my Python Accessibility Analysis Kit (http://peterkrantz.com/projects/paakt) to Ruby. The idea is to be able to add something like “assert_basic_accessibility” to a functional test (that renders a complete page).

]]> Comment on A peaceful, easy feeling from RailsConf by Mike Gorski http://kuniform.org/2006/06/25/a-peaceful-easy-feeling-from-railsconf/#comment-7884 Mike Gorski Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:09:58 +0000 http://kuniform.org/2006/06/25/a-peaceful-easy-feeling-from-railsconf/#comment-7884 Jason, thanks much for the presentation. It was truly one of the gems of the RailsConf - with so much talk of rails core and deployment issues, your talk was on the margins and that made it all the more interesting. And after reading that your daughter was clocking in a temp over 105, I'm even more impressed with what you said and presented. I would have said, "Screw the RailsConf" if either of my children was that hot. Thanks again for a great talk and some grest questions to think about. Jason, thanks much for the presentation. It was truly one of the gems of the RailsConf – with so much talk of rails core and deployment issues, your talk was on the margins and that made it all the more interesting. And after reading that your daughter was clocking in a temp over 105, I’m even more impressed with what you said and presented. I would have said, “Screw the RailsConf” if either of my children was that hot.

Thanks again for a great talk and some grest questions to think about.

]]> Comment on I am NOT a seat hog by DC http://kuniform.org/2006/06/27/i-am-not-a-seat-hog/#comment-7883 DC Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:48:58 +0000 http://kuniform.org/2006/06/27/i-am-not-a-seat-hog/#comment-7883 Power to the seat hog!!! Anyone over 5'8 has the right to sit on the outside if they are there first. Great job Jay Power to the seat hog Anyone over 5’8 has the right to sit on the outside if they are there first.

Great job Jay

]]> Comment on A peaceful, easy feeling from RailsConf by Jeremy Seitz http://kuniform.org/2006/06/25/a-peaceful-easy-feeling-from-railsconf/#comment-7880 Jeremy Seitz Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:50:10 +0000 http://kuniform.org/2006/06/25/a-peaceful-easy-feeling-from-railsconf/#comment-7880 Hi Jason, thanks for giving a great presentation at RailsConf (and for posting the notes!). I think it's up to people like us to push the Rails core team towards better accessibility standards. Perhaps some kind of guidelines for developers, and tests. I heard some good ideas related to adding accessibility checks in functional tests. Email me and I'll get you more information about the flash/tts stuff I have been working with. Hi Jason, thanks for giving a great presentation at RailsConf (and for posting the notes!). I think it’s up to people like us to push the Rails core team towards better accessibility standards. Perhaps some kind of guidelines for developers, and tests. I heard some good ideas related to adding accessibility checks in functional tests.

Email me and I’ll get you more information about the flash/tts stuff I have been working with.

]]> Comment on There’s a Decade Left by James Wynne http://kuniform.org/2006/05/03/theres-a-decade-left/#comment-7705 James Wynne Wed, 10 May 2006 19:07:58 +0000 http://kuniform.org/?p=128#comment-7705 Um, check out . . . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4923504.stm. or this project in the UK Climateprediction.net. or if you like your science with a bad plot, read Michael Crichton's "State of Fear." The story is predictable and the characters are 2-dimensional but I have looked into it and the science is pretty solid. Um, check out . . . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4923504.stm.

or this project in the UK Climateprediction.net.

or if you like your science with a bad plot, read Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear.” The story is predictable and the characters are 2-dimensional but I have looked into it and the science is pretty solid.

]]> Comment on There’s a Decade Left by jason http://kuniform.org/2006/05/03/theres-a-decade-left/#comment-7699 jason Fri, 05 May 2006 19:20:23 +0000 http://kuniform.org/?p=128#comment-7699 I've gotten some comments, especially from my winger friends (and I don't mean the heavy metal band). About the 'You will always be my president' comment. He's not my President like a king, as the Right views Bush. No matter what the history books say, Gore won, and election was stolen in plain sight, simply stated. This country has suffered from this Administration's lack of leadership ever since, excepting maybe that period from 9/11 until Tora Bora. Maybe. I’ve gotten some comments, especially from my winger friends (and I don’t mean the heavy metal band). About the ‘You will always be my president’ comment. He’s not my President like a king, as the Right views Bush. No matter what the history books say, Gore won, and election was stolen in plain sight, simply stated. This country has suffered from this Administration’s lack of leadership ever since, excepting maybe that period from 9/11 until Tora Bora. Maybe.

]]> Comment on There’s a Decade Left by Dirk Gaiser http://kuniform.org/2006/05/03/theres-a-decade-left/#comment-7698 Dirk Gaiser Thu, 04 May 2006 23:07:40 +0000 http://kuniform.org/?p=128#comment-7698 I enjoy your take on this earthwide epidemic, and couldn't agree more with the fact that we all need to become better stewards of our environment. However, futher national legislation will be met with fierce opposition from big business, and jobs and money will continue to flow outward to countires which have lax or NO regulations. And we all know that economically speaking, this idea to save ourselves from ourselves, needs to be a societal shift in our cutural affinity for luxury items...which use gas, oil, electricity, etc. This is going to be one tough sell to the duck-hunting crowd, who rely on fat profits from our military exercises...that being said, I'll definitely spend the $10 to support this film and its ideas. How come environmental conservation is not considered a conservative issue? Oh wait, it is now....Dubya just met with my Governator to tour some ALT fuel automotive development projects last week. MY MISTAKE! Jason suggested I add this Gore tidbit, HE TOLD ME TO! So here goes.... WAYYYY back in '98 when the Dem Convention was being held in CHI...Al Gore had dinner at the restaurant below the company I worked for. The Secret Service swept our suite a few hours before it. (...good thing they weren't drug-sniffing dogs they had with them) Okay that parts not that funny...what is, is when a temp employee clogged the toilet (oops!?) and we had a, um...overflow which, well...ended up running down the walls beneath suite 222 - the nice quaint & expensive restaurant where Gore was going to have a political dinner... I have never seen a restauranteer more angry than that guy when he came to discuss the problem with us! Makes me laugh everytime I think about it. (nope, we never actually disclosed the "water source") I enjoy your take on this earthwide epidemic, and couldn’t agree more with the fact that we all need to become better stewards of our environment. However, futher national legislation will be met with fierce opposition from big business, and jobs and money will continue to flow outward to countires which have lax or NO regulations. And we all know that economically speaking, this idea to save ourselves from ourselves, needs to be a societal shift in our cutural affinity for luxury items…which use gas, oil, electricity, etc.

This is going to be one tough sell to the duck-hunting crowd, who rely on fat profits from our military exercises…that being said, I’ll definitely spend the $10 to support this film and its ideas. How come environmental conservation is not considered a conservative issue? Oh wait, it is now….Dubya just met with my Governator to tour some ALT fuel automotive development projects last week. MY MISTAKE!

Jason suggested I add this Gore tidbit, HE TOLD ME TO!
So here goes….

WAYYYY back in ‘98 when the Dem Convention was being held in CHI…Al Gore had dinner at the restaurant below the company I worked for. The Secret Service swept our suite a few hours before it. (...good thing they weren’t drug-sniffing dogs they had with them)

Okay that parts not that funny…what is, is when a temp employee clogged the toilet (oops!?) and we had a, um…overflow which, well…ended up running down the walls beneath suite 222 – the nice quaint & expensive restaurant where Gore was going to have a political dinner…

I have never seen a restauranteer more angry than that guy when he came to discuss the problem with us! Makes me laugh everytime I think about it.
(nope, we never actually disclosed the “water source”)

]]> Comment on There’s a Decade Left by Anonymous http://kuniform.org/2006/05/03/theres-a-decade-left/#comment-7697 Anonymous Thu, 04 May 2006 16:22:16 +0000 http://kuniform.org/?p=128#comment-7697 This is terrifying. I watched the trailer on YouTube just now. I’ve seen graphics about the impact of a 20ft rise in sea level before and it’s unreal to believe it can happen in my lifetime if things don’t change. This movie is going to give me nightmares! This is terrifying. I watched the trailer on YouTube just now. I’ve seen graphics about the impact of a 20ft rise in sea level before and it’s unreal to believe it can happen in my lifetime if things don’t change. This movie is going to give me nightmares!

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