When I was nine years old, I got my eyes checked as part of the routine pre-school-year physical, and they were normal vision.  Three months later I got my first set of glasses.  I’ve always been one of those folks whose eyesight is fine until it suddenly falls off a cliff… one day I can … Continue reading “Upgraded eyeballs”

Decades ago I started associating specific music soundtracks to specific contexts of my life, and it’s made so many things easier. What I’m about to tell you is probably obvious, but I tripped over it by accident so I figure passing it on might save someone else time. The technique: Create a music playlist specifically … Continue reading “How Final Fantasy IX taught me to hack my brain”

About, oh, three and a half years ago now, I wrote a little post on a little site called The Pastry Box about all the people I knew who needed accessible websites. It was called An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues and it was inspired by some developers I was working with at the time who … Continue reading “An alphabet of accessibility update”