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Zen of Design - presented to the BFMA International Symposium
"The purpose behind all forms-based applications is the transmission of data from the people who fill it out to someone who has to make a decision based on that data."

Zen of GUI - presented to the BFMA International Symposium
"Know the user. Computer literacy is not an indicator of intelligence. A lot of computer literacy comes from playing with complex hardware and software systems, something a business person may not have had time to do"

Genius is as Genius Does - abstract for 2005 BFMA Symposium
"Remember being told that to use a computer you would have to learn another language called DOS? But then something new showed up… a user friendly interface with no DOS required. Then what happened? To be any good on a computer you had to know GUI. That led to WYSIWYG. Then came HTML, DHTML, XML, JAVA…"

Ralph the Pig - won First Place for Showmanship at Reliant Energy Cookoff
"We're afraid the worst has happened. Have you seen this pig? Ralph, you know- 'the pig', is missing. He was last seen hitch-hiking to the cookoff. But as you all know, this is a "barbecue cookoff," and Ralph, you know, is a pig, and uh..."

1GC Site Builder™ - press release for 1 Global City
1 Global City.Corn® hopes to capture the new and intermediate business market that desires to build and administer their own Web sites.

From BC to IBC - the evolution of the business card
To announce his business presence, primitive man would wear strange masks in exotic places, bang drums and jump about wildly. These efforts were so exhaustive humans were forced to settle down and take up agriculture...