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Last night, I decided I was not going to wake up until, at the very least, noon today. That was shot when I couldn’t fall back asleep and it was 8:30 am. Horrible. Since then, I’ve accomplished the following…

• Freshly grounded and brewed a cup of coffee
• Drank it - Trader Joe’s Volcano; recommended although it’s not in my top 10
• Exchanged a few texts with Pfluger, confirming that skipping an alumni golf outing was wise (temperature at 7:30 am tee time was below freezing) - no chalepa ta kala today
• Flipped my iPod on shuffle
• Received an entirely too positive-sounding text from Hammer, who went
• Adjusted the size of my new RSS button
• Ate the last of the taco pizza
• Discovered the fancy AJAX thinger that enabled in-page navigation and live search for this site did weird things in Firefox. And by weird things I mean no page resolved and it looped endlessly.
  • 79% of my traffic uses Firefox (thank you, Google Analytics), but view fully 1.5 and 2 pages less per visit than Internet Explorer and Safari users respectively.
  • IE users spend a minute and a half longer on this site than Firefox users.
  • I’ve removed this functionality, replaced it with the standard archivery (yes, I just made up a word) and am now curious to see if Firefox users begin to view more pages per visit and spend more time.

Makes sense to try and improve the experience for my largest audience, wouldn’t you say? Big ups to my usability, analytics, development, & QA teams.

Opportunities for improvement are everywhere. Identify, act/change, measure, record, repeat…agility is the key. But first, you must do something.

It’s now 12:34 pm and time for me to do something else…