Lab Journal

The blog is dead - long live the new blog.

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:36:00 +0000

And thus I bid a fond farewell to Blogger.

The new blog is live over at http://kevinmatheny.com/wordpress. It's prettier than this one. No offense intended, Blogger. Thanks for introducing me to blogging, and for making the process easy and painless. And for being so darn well-indexed by Google, which while unsurprising was nonetheless welcome.

See you over there.

Upgrading my web presence.

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:14:00 +0000

Yes, I registered kevinmatheny.com, yay for personal branding on the Internet.

I'm working on the blog. I am not entirely sure that I need a new blog, and I still have it in the lunarpages equivalent of the basement workshop, trying to figure out how to get it configured the way I want. But I am liking Wordpress, and things look promising - a lot more control than Blogger offers, with concomitant risk of b0rking your install and having to start over.

Once I get it presentable, I need to move all of my historical posts over there. Assuming I don't break it again and have to start over.

But the work is underway.

Also to come: some kind of home page. And a wiki, ideally Confluence - 10-user licenses are $10.

Comment spam sucks

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:51:00 +0000

I guess I should take it as some kind of sign that I've arrived. I got a wave of comment spam rich with names of and links to gaming sites. That's gaming as in the computer type, which is at least on-topic for me, if not for the post they were attached to.

So I've turned on Captcha and enabled comment moderation. Sign of the times, I guess.

Moving (back) to Mac

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:09:00 +0000

So my work laptop died. It wasn't a particularly surprising death - the signs were there if you chose to look for them, and I've reached the stage in life where I've dealt with this before, so the grieving process is familiar now. Did I say grieving? I think I meant backing up re-installing.

I did decide to make it significantly more complicated this time, as I'm changing platforms. After 10 years away, I'm going back to using a Mac as my work machine. I took a hard look at my options, and decided that I want to be compatible with the development teams I'm working with, and the best tools for doing the kind of work I am doing (e-business architecture) are Mac tools - Omnifocus and Omnigraffle are on my short list.

Also, it seems that while I have been away the maddening process of managing extensions has been done away with, what with the switch to Unix under the hood.

I'm a bit apprehensive - I'll be learning new UI conventions, figuring out which open source software is the best, and lugging around a much heavier laptop.

I'm also excited - I love learning new things, and I'm really looking forward to getting back to Mac.

Wish me luck.

Design patterns that do not exist, but should: Let The Wookiee Win

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:41:00 +0000

I like design patterns. They're an interesting and useful way to store a fairly large set of information about how to do something in a few words. Mike Nygard, in Release It!, uses patterns and anti-patterns to talk about things to do and to watch out for, and I found it to be an excellent way to remember what to do and not do.

Playing around with language is something I enjoy, and I have a talent for remembering movie quotes. For whatever reason, some movie quotes strike me as capturing design or problem-solving patterns. Thus I begin what may turn out to be a series of posts, about Design Patterns That Do Not Exist, But Should.

Let The Wookiee Win
I can't find a link for this on Youtube - guess Lucasfilm's legal staff is earning their keep. In the original Star Wars, R2D2 is playing a chess-like game with Chewbacca. Chewie doesn't like one of R2's moves, leading to this exchange:
C3P0: He made a fair move. Screaming about it won't help you.
Han: Let him have it. It's not wise to upset a Wookiee.
C3PO: But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid.
Han: That's 'cause droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that.
C3PO: I see your point, sir. I suggest a new strategy, Artoo. Let the Wookiee win.

Let The Wookiee Win is not about conceding the game, it's about redefining victory conditions for yourself in light of new information. The point of using it as a design pattern is that you should be alert to information that changes the nature of the game; there's not much point in winning the battle if you lose the war.

You should Let The Wookiee Win when you come into possession of new information that changes your understanding of the consequences of achieving your current goal. Play the meta-game, not the game at hand.

- Kevin

I am become Twitter, destroyer of long-form blogging

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:27:00 +0000

Twitter is pretty darn cool. The ability to publish brief updates to anyone who cares to receive them is a neat thing. I've been using it for months now, and am learning to use it as a kind of zeitgeist tool - I follow enough people that I can pick up on stories and trends via twitter rather than through other means.

But I'm finding that it just destroys blogging as a communications form for me. I'm an infrequent blogger anyway, for a variety of reasons, and giving me an outlet that forces me to be pithy and is expressly interpersonal and transient just encourages that.

Blog posts, for me, are something I craft. When I write anything longer than a couple of sentences, I revise and rethink, going over the sequence of things to make sure that it flows and is readable. I don't do that with Twitter (at least, I don't do it much) because there just isn't enough space to worry about it.

I don't think this affects everyone; I suspect it hits those who are primarily social bloggers much more than those who are journalists or creative writers.

- Kevin

Okay, so what is an API?

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:40:00 +0000

This is an excellent question, and one I get asked a fair amount. The not-very-useful answer is "it's an Application Programming Interface," which tells you what it's an acronym for but not what that means. If you're not familiar with the term, the words are just a different kind of meaningless noise.

If you want to read the Wikipedia entry on APIs, knock yourself out. You might also find the entry on Web Services interesting. I'll wait here.

Done? Okay, welcome back. There's a lot of really dense information over there, and I find it useful to fasten on two key concepts: One, an API is a way for computers to talk to one another, and two, a web service is (kind of) a web site with the skin taken off.

Remix, for example (hey, what other example am I going to use?), replicates pretty much what you can get from BestBuy.com on the "product detail page" for a given item. Here's an Insignia TV at BestBuy.com:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8632875&type=product&id=1194052042360

And here's the same TV in the Remix API:

http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/products/8632875.xml?apiKey=fqbvt96fpczdv4wesx4s62sd

Notice that pretty much all of the information that is in the pretty BestBuy.com version is also in the texty Remix version? That's because Remix is more or less just BestBuy.com with the skin off.

So why do you care? What's the point of taking the skin off a web site? Well, when you do that, it becomes possible to put a different skin on. For example, in the sidebar of this blog is a list of games, showing names, images and prices. All of that information is coming from Remix; I just put the list of SKU IDs into a control panel and it created a chunk of javascript that does the work.

So what you're seeing is information from BestBuy.com, but not at BestBuy.com. When prices change on BestBuy.com, they'll change in that sidebar gadget.

What do we hope to get out of this? Something cool that we can't imagine. Yellow Tag Productions, our internal video production team, did a great video that summarizes the thinking behind this and the potential we see, called "Open for Business." It's worth 4:50 of your day, I think. Of course, I would, since I'm in it. Give it a try.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whzN-7uCiZw

Affiliating myself

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:36:00 +0000

Had an excellent meeting at work early this week and discovered Things From Another World (www.tfaw.com), which looks like a most excellent place to buy some of things I find fascinating. Yeah, I'm talking about comic books.

Turns out they have an affiliate program, which is nice. I am not sure if they are targeting the long tail, which is where this tiny little self-indulgence belongs. Their process seems to assume that I own the domain where my site is located. Since I'm on Blogger, that is very much not the case.

They do offer me an alternative method of demonstrating my ownership of this blog, though. I cam put this into a post:

Confirmation Code: GNDFMCN16321763

There you go, guys. Sign me up!

Bridges to the Future

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:33:00 +0000

Hey, my article is live, and I didn't blog about it. Never has the subtitle of my blog been so eerily accurate.

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/dec2008/db20081228_586132.htm

It's aimed at non-technical people working in businesses that use technology, in particular those that are dependent on technology for their success. If you're working for a company that needs to do technology projects, it's worth reading. And then printing out and showing to your senior management. :)

Serendipity

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:45:00 +0000

Sometimes you just get lucky, I guess. Case in point: I've been invited to write an article for Business Week. This is utterly relevant to what I am doing right now, and yet is completely random. One of my friends at work (Erik Olson, @EAEO) twittered that he recommended following @johnabyrne, Editor-in-Chief of BusinessWeek. I did so. Turns out I was John's 2,500th Twitter follower, and as a result, he offered to let me write the article as a reward.

It's such an amazing coincidence. My project (Best Buy Remix, http://remix.bestbuy.com) is gathering momentum inside Best Buy and we are working on getting out the word externally. We just brought on a community manager to help us reach out to external development communities and take care of the folks using our portal. We've been talking to PR and Marketing about how to reach out. And then this opportunity drops into my lap.

Sometimes you just get lucky, indeed.

- Kevin

Getting Outlook calendar onto your iPhone without violating corporate policies

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:17:00 +0000

At work (Best Buy), we don't allow non-company-owned devices on the network. This means that I can't sync my (personal) iPhone with my work calendar. Since my work-provided phone is dead as a doornail right now, this is kind of a problem. But I'm a resourceful guy, and I'm pretty good with the Google.

So I found a way to do it, mostly courtesy of this post from Ian Fernando. Basically, you need to do 4 things:

Use Google Calendar Sync to get your Outlook calendar into Google Calendar
Sign up for a (free) account with www.nuevasync.com (beta service, will probably go pay or go away some day, but for now it works and is free)
Give Nuevasync access to your Google calendar (not your account, and not your password, just access to the calendar)
Add a calendar sync on the iPhone to the MS Exchange server that Nuevasync provides (detailed directions at Nuevasync site)

It's a pretty simple process, and the results are hard to argue with: I have my calendar on my phone.

In which I take the Wall Street Journal to task for their "analysis" of the impact of the Beatles appearing in Rock Band

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:12:00 +0000

So the Beatles at long last are going to have some kind of digital distribution, and it will be in the Rock Band series. The WSJ's article on it is fairly good, written as it is for a general audience, but it contains two paragraphs that made me wince.

The first is an observation about the relative sales performance of the two games. It follows earlier portions that have made it clear that the two games are competing, and that the Beatles deal represents a big win for Rock Band. This is apparently offset by:

DFC estimates that Guitar Hero and its sequels have generated more than $1.5 billion in cumulative revenue so far, three times as much as Rock Band. However, the two games are competing neck-and-neck so far this year, with MTV's launch of Rock Band 2 and Activision's latest, Guitar Hero World Tour, this past Sunday. Guitar Hero has issued seven titles to date, while Rock Band -- distributed by Electronic Arts Inc. -- has put out just two titles.

The implication is that Rock Band is the upstart, coming from behind; that GH is more successful than Rock Band. But, since there are no sales figures for the period since Rock Band's release, or across the last two releases or really anything that gives you an apples-to-apples comparison, it's what we call a "factoid." That is, "fact-" meaning "fact," and "oid" meaning "something like." It's an ornament, but not particularly useful in helping you figure out which game is winning.

Look, if you want to compare the two games, compare them in a meaningful way. When one game has a two-year head start, lifetime sales figures aren't a very good yardstick. And since the creative team (Harmonix) that is making Rock Band was responsible for developing the first 3 Guitar Hero releases (GH, GH II and GH:Rocks the 80s), perhaps those should be counted on the Rock Band side.

The second maddening paragraph is the very next one in the article:

Beatles songs available on a Rock Band game are likely to be popular, but analysts point out that the challenge will be in reaching out to Beatles fans, many of whom are in their 50s and 60s, and marketing the game in a way that will persuade them to buy a videogame console and try the game.

The "analysts" mentioned are no doubt glad they are anonymous, because this is a dipshit statement, on multiple levels. First, it assumes that Beatles fans are mostly over 50. Hello? They're the BEST ROCK AND ROLL BAND EVER. Their appeal transcends age. Yes, lots of people over 50 like the Beatles. So do lots of people who are under 50.

Second, it assumes that you have to be a Beatles fan to be interested in their music. I'm not a Jimmy Buffet fan, but I bought the 3-song Buffet set for Rock Band. Iconic, distinctive music has general appeal. The music of the Beatles will appeal even to non-Beatles fans.

Third and most annoying, it assumes that Harmonix and MTV are interested in trying to drive console sales. They don't make consoles. They make software and peripherals, and trying to drive sales of those things is their primary concern. Adding the Beatles to their product line (especially if they do a standalone Beatles game) drives software sales to people who already own consoles.

It's one of those superficially smart-sounding observations that falls apart under scrutiny. It shouldn't have made it past the editors at the WSJ.

Pondering on the VP debate

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:22:00 +0000

I still haven't watched it, but I have been following the blogospheric coverage, especially through www.fivethirtyeight.com. One thing that was being theorized coming into the debate was that the format, especially the lack of direct interaction, was going to favor Palin. Another was that Biden needed to be careful and not attack too much, not come across as being mean to her.

Is it possible that the format, by depriving Biden of the opportunity to interact directly, wound up helping him more than her? Not sure if it's possible to tell after the fact, but the coverage I am reading is indicating that he came off as more sympathetic and human than she did, in addition to being more qualified.

Then again, I'm not reading everything (unlike Governor Palin, who apparently reads "all of" the newspapers and magazines), so this may just be an artifact of small sample size.

AP, IP and baffling business decisions

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:24:00 +0000

Okay, I'm kind of cheating here. I originally wrote this for my internal blog at Best Buy, but I really like it, so I'm reposting it out here in the wild.

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Original date: 6/20/2008

I've read a number of blog posts recently about AP's decision to try to impose very strict rules on use of their content. In essence, they're claiming that quoting more than 5 words from an AP article (in a public context such as a blog) constitutes infringing use of their intellectual property and they should be paid for it.

That strikes me (and many others) as an untenable legal position -- fair use seems to me (a non-lawyer) as granting greater ability to re-use than a 5-word limit will allow. It seems to me that AP is following in the footsteps of SCO or the RIAA; unable to grow their business in the fashion they were, they're suing customers (or potential customers) to create a revenue stream or safeguard the existing one.

Whether downloading music without paying for it is legal or not (probably not), whether it hurts sales or not (also probably not, in my opinion), it's a logical and inevitable consequence of technological change. Trying to hold back the Internet by suing potential customers is not likely to succeed, and a waste of time and energy that could be put into finding ways to actually grow your business.

There's an excellent article on the AP decision over at Greg Costikyan's Play This Thing blog. He points out that AP (and Reuters) had the opportunity to own news online but have missed the boat. To illustrate the futility of their approach, he wanted to find a story to quote (more than 5 words) from, but couldn't find one:

"... I searched on "videogame," and brought up...

Nothing.

Not a single story.

Now, the search was constrained to the last seven days, and I suppose it's vaguely possible that AP has not run a single story in the last week that contained the word "videogame" or dealt with them in any fashion -- but I doubt that. What's more likely, I suspect, is that search is on keywords, not fulltext, and that "videogame" isn't a keyword they use."

The full post is worth reading, but does contain a couple of swear words. Fair warning. :)

http://playthisthing.com/i-wish-violate-aps-ip-aps-gormlessness-prevents-me

Netflix goes open, and I uncloak

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0000

So Netflix has opened up their data via an API. They're also using Mashery, which lead to me discovering something that probably should have been obvious: My Remix account works over at Netflix as well, since it's not really a Remix account but a Mashery account.

In retrospect, duh. It tells you that on the login screen. I just hadn't connected the dots.

In other news, I changed my Twitter handle to my real name. I figured that would be easier for people to keep straight. I'm keeping this blog, though, and I'm still Brainiac4 lots of places. I'm just being more open about who Brainiac4 is.

Remix Best Buy

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:32:00 +0000

Ever say to yourself "Man, Best Buy's web site sucks. I could build a better one!"

I'm calling your bluff. Best Buy Remix is live. We've taken the BBY product catalog and turned it into an open API. Swing by remix.bestbuy.com, check out the documentation, sign up for an API key and do something with our data.

I dare you.

:)

You'll see me in the forums there under my real name: Kevin Matheny. Say hi.

Sarah Palin? Seriously?

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:04:00 +0000

I guess the McCain campaign is going for Palin as an antidote to the age factor? Except that already came off the table to some degree with the choice of Biden, who is in his 60s. It does give McCain/Palin the opportunity to appeal to women, but I don't see that many women who were on the fence going for McCain/Palin just because she's a woman. I could be wrong, I guess.

The thing that immediately struck me, though, is that this is now the all-under-investigation ticket. McCain's history (Keating 5) combined with Palin's current struggles (under investigation by the Republican-controlled state legislature) makes for an easy line of attack.

Most of all, though, she just does not seem presidential. And she's one 72-year-old-four-time-cancer-survivor-heartbeat away from the presidency if McCain wins.

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:44:00 +0000

Trying out ping.fm...

Man, am I chatty all of a sudden

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:08:00 +0000

I think my previous high for posts in a day was two. I also think I set it earlier today. Now here I go breaking new ground. I ran across Wordle a while back, linked from Mike Nygard's blog. It's a neat app that takes a set of words and creates a visualization of them. I tried it out with my del.icio.us tag cloud, and it does a nice job of letting you know what I find interesting.

Technorati, finally

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:34:00 +0000

I guess it's time to grow up.

Here's my Technorati Profile.

Switches and dials, thresholds and evaluations

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:37:00 +0000

I spend a fair amount of time playing games, of various sorts -- a lot of computer games, mostly of the RPG genre, as well as card games (Magic and traditional) and some board games. One thing that strikes me is the similarity between the design decisions made when building games and those made when constructing other sorts of UIs, such as web sites or applications. When you are dealing with the interface between humans abstracted into an interface layer of some sort, whether it's a set of rules you read, the instructions on a card or the placement and nature of buttons on the screen, you're dealing with variations on a theme: how does one person understand what they can and cannot do to interact with the context they are in to produce results?

When I am thinking about the controls available to users, I conceptualize them using a framework I call "switches and dials". Switches are on/off states -- something is in play or not, available or not, alive or dead, and so on. In a website or application context, these are things like whether or not you offer search, or the ability for users to save a constructed navigational state. At the most basic level, a switch is a threshold -- you are on one side or the other. In World of Warcraft, for example, you must have purchased the skill that allows you to use a given weapon before you can equip it.

Dials are indicators of degree -- things that may occur in increments, such as points of health, chance to dodge and so on. Often, they're linked to switches -- in World of Warcraft, once you have purchased the ability to equip a given weapon, you still have to build up your skill rating with it.

This leads me to framing user decisions about whether to like a given component or system in terms of threshold and evaluation considerations -- which features or functions will make or break a user's decision to use a web site or application at all, and which will influence it.

There is, of course, a pretty big difference between switch/dial in game, site or app design and threshold/evalution in user preference, but there's enough similarity in concept for me to link them in my mind -- and isn't my mind what blogging is all about? :)

An example may help. For me, the ability to see screenshots of a piece of software is make-or-break; even if downloading it is free, I still want to know what the thing looks like, After all, I am going to have to uninstall if I don't like it, and that represents an investment. So no screenshots is a threshold for me. Once we get past that, then I'm looking at the content in the screenshots, and we're in evaluation territory.

From the other side of the equation, deciding whether or not to put screenshots on the web site is a switch.

Okay, what's the reason for all of this? When making decisions about what to put into or leave out of your game (site, application, etc) consider what part of the decision-making process it occupies for your end-user, in addition to thinking about what it means to your design intent.

Twitter - should I stay or should I go?

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:58:00 +0000

I'm finding myself starting to really like Twitter. My original use of it was somewhat minimal, kind of like my approach to blogging (although I'm handicapped a bit by blogging twice -- here and at work -- so some of the time and ideas I have are being used in a closed system). I posted a few tweets (twitts? I prefer tweets, I think), subscribed to a couple of interesting people, but was treating it more like a mini-RSS feed than a communication mechanism. Over the last week or two, though, I've used it for direct and indirect communication, including a really entertaining instance of connecting to someone (Chris Thiessen, creator of www.zoomii.com, which is fascinating) through Twitter before I had the chance to connect via email.

At the same time, I'm starting to understand the frustration felt by Twitter users at the downtime for the service. Direct messages have taken up to 10 hours to get through, and some of the website's functions have failed to work or generated baffling error messages. Reading about Twitter on techcrunch, I'm concerned about the long-term viability of the service.

So I find myself at a bit of a crossroads. Do I keep investing time and energy in building my social graph on Twitter, hoping it will become stable and usable, or do I seek out alternatives?

I'm reminded of the adoption of instant messaging in the mid-90s. I started with AIM and built a modest network of friends, then somehow lost my account in the Netscape/AOL transition. I built another network on Yahoo Messenger, another on Microsoft Messenger, tried Trillian to hook them up, but found it didn't work on my work computer. Now Google and Facebook and everyone else wants to provide instant messaging infrastructure.

I'm tired of setting up new accounts and rebuilding my social graph. I want a way to hook up all of the ones I already have, and to be honest, I'm willing to pay for that.

Visual Bookshelf, again

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:14:00 +0000

Visual Bookshelf 2.0 has been released, and I'm liking the upgrades. Given that it has to fit within the facebook column structure, the design works really well. The images also look better, although they're still smaller than I want them to be.

Hey, VB team - keep up the good work on facebook, but if you have some spare time to work out a full-page design that you can host on your own pages, I think you might get some usage there as well, and more space to do things like advertise.

Just a thought. :)

Stumbling

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:59:00 +0000

Next up on my Web 2.0 tour is StumbleUpon. It's a(nother) collaborative filtering mechanism for the Internet. I think the killer app for for the Web is something along these lines -- the problem with the fact that anyone can publish is that it's hard to find the good stuff. As Ted Sturgeon so aptly pointed out, 90% of everything is crap. I think with the lowered barriers to entry of the modern Internet, the percentage of crap may well be higher.

But there is some really, truly great stuff out there. The problem is finding it. Blogs help a bit, when they aren't being part of the problem -- boingboing, for example, is a great way to find out about interesting stuff. But some of what they cover doesn't interest me, and some (a lot, really) of what I find interesting is stuff they don't cover. So I build an aggregate of streams via RSS, which helps, but there's not necessarily that feeling of discovering something. I think in part it's because reading a blurb about something and then seeing it takes a bit of the impact out of the process.

StumbleUpon, on the other hand, just presents the potentially interesting thing in my browser window with no explanation. I get to determine for myself what this thing is and what I think of it. So far it's pretty good -- over the course of several days and about 50 or 60 Stumbles, I've only seen two or three dogs.

Setup is painless -- set up a username/password, minor toolbar install, click on a few items out of the list of possible topics, and you're off. Any time I am looking at something I can Like it or Dislike it, and that (apparently) gets saved to my profile to improve results.

Coolest thing today was this list of the 100 oldest currently-registered dot-com domains. Geeky fun.

Now I think I'll go do some housecleaning in iTunes.

Visual Bookshelf

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:24:00 +0000

I like VB. But as noted below, I'm finding the UI a bit clunky. I did get feedback from Tim at Visual Bookshelf (perhaps Tim O'Shaughnessy from Hungry Machine?), who gently pointed out that I could choose larger images. He was even good-natured about my expressed desire that the team have their phalanges smashed. :) I'm not able to make the change work for me, though, which is a bit frustrating. The screenshot on the VB page at Facebook (linked in the title of this post) shows a somewhat different UI than I get. Not sure if that's something to do with FireFox, or if the screenshot was a mockup or earlier version that's different from the current code.

I just wish I could use all of this 22" monitor, I guess. :)