Stock price be damned! Today there was a mass evacuation of my building at Yahoo! in Santa Clara. Apparently someone brought in their personal DELL laptop and had yet to heed their battery recall instructions. Here are the charred remains. The fire was on the 8th floor, and the acrid stench of burned plastic could be smelled eight floors down!
I have yet to find out who the person was; I would like to get a recount of how the events that led up to this transpired. If I get an update, I will let you know.
Update: The machine belongs to a Yahoo! Research Intern. It was his first week on the job, from what I’ve uncovered. He was simply sitting there at his desk, writing code when his machine started smoking, and then flaming. Welcome to Yahoo, grasshopper.
There’s a certain feeling I get when an idea really gels; you know what I’m talking about. Iteration after iteration, hours, weeks, even months of energy put into the smallest interaction victory - all so that your users will be delighted by their experience. And when they do experience that delight, it rocks!
Well, for concepts and prototypes, I’ve begun using the Rock cursor as inspiration to acheive greatness. I’m in this to create products that rock, and thought it would be a nice Friday afternoon gesture to share this icon with the wonderful the Push Button For readers.
I wish I could claim that I created the icon, but I didn’t; I only tweaked it and made it better. In fact I have no idea who originally thought of the idea. But damn if it doesn’t look good when I’m presenting an idea that is air tight! Take it, use it, and my friends, let’s spread the rock!
