Me: Remind me to give Shawn the message from his wife.

Buck: Ok. I got it. My mind is like a bear trap.

Me: Does that mean when something gets in, it never gets out?

Buck: ...Gets out of what?

If you glance over at my flickr images to the right you'll probably notice a picture of a little girl with some very red eyes. That's because she had Strabismus Repair surgery yesterday at Children's of Atlanta at Egleston.

In short, the surgery seems like a success thus far. Everyone at Egleston made the process as easy as possible. Everyone was nice, loved the kids and addressed all questions thoroughly.

Good job Children's.

About 2 months ago I received an email from Blockbuster.com announcing the forthcoming redesign of their online rental site.

"Great!" I thought. The site was starting to show it's age. Type was small, it relied heavily on graphics for presentation and navigation and, in general, had begun to take on a very dated appearance.

From a functionality standpoint the site was solid, but it was difficult, or not always clear

Well, I noted the coming redesign and went about my normal business.

About a week ago I get another email from Blockbuster with the subject... ANNOUNCING THE NEW BLOCKBUSTER.COM.

Great! I clicked the logo in the email and was taken to the ne....the same old site. My first thought was "It is an IE only redesign. Ugh...". I went to a Windows machine that had Internet Explorer and, after logging in, came to the same old rental interface.

Completely confused and more than a little letdown I referred back to the email and read a little more closely. Toward the bottom, I noticed a link to a preview of the new site.

Ahhh! If you're just going to show me a preview then tell me as such. Don't "announce the new site" and then let me down with a simple flash preview. I am already a customer after all, so you have my business. About the only thing you can accomplish with another new site email is irritate me.

Or just remind me that it's still not done, and that the current site is painfully out of date.

Got an email from Best Buy today notifying me of their new online store designed specifically for their business customers. While the design is nice enough to look at and I do enjoy not having to make my way through all of the glossy movie and games promos, the markup is most definitely Web 1.0. There is no DOCTYPE specified, the page (markup/XHTML only) weighs in at a hefty 14kb. Worst of all? A spacer.gif!

There is just no excuse for using old, crusty table-based layout for that design. It could easily be implemented, probably in a single afternoon of work by Travis, and provide faster loading times and better accessibility to boot.

Shame on Best Buy!