I make things, too

I have to say, sometimes I suffer from jealousy of other designers/artists sites because they just put out so much cool stuff. Usually my projects are a little more long term or aren’t allowed to be broadcast on the internets. Well get ready world, because I can show this one off:

The Texas Exes are celebrating 125 years of supporting the University of Texas and providing opportunities for scholars. This site was designed by Jamie Appel and I, and developed by Andy Thompson, Randy Ramirez and myself. What’s that? You see a similiarity in twitter birds? I couldn’t help myself. They’re incredibly cute and hey, this one is different because it has a longhorn…right?

Go check it out and click around!

Outlook

Outlook fails in a variety of ways. But today it was just too good.

When outlook encountered an error, it gave me this message:

When it asked was this helpful, I clicked the link.

I hit no, the error message ‘operation failed’ was not helpful. How could I possibly fix the problem if the system only told me it had failed, and not how to fix it or what might be causing the error? After I clicked no, this came up:

It failed to record how it had failed. That’s pretty much the epitome of worthlessness.