Kim Siever’s Blog

JPG Logos

By Kim Siever, 28 Mar 06

Can someone explain to me why the heck so many people ask for and/or save logos in JPG (JPEG) format? It makes absolutely no sense to me to use a file format with a lossy compression for saving logos. What’s wrong with EPS, GIF, PNG or even TIFF?

Less and Fewer

By Kim Siever,

When I was in the grocery store the other day, I noticed the express checkout line had a sign that read “9 items or less”.

Interestingly enough, I have seen the same thing at different stores. This is a problem. “Less” is used when something cannot be quantified (i.e. less air, less water, less grass). When something can be quantified, like the number of grocery items in one’s cart, “fewer” should be used (i.e. fewer vials of air, fewer glasses of water, fewer blades of grass).

Is the grocery industry going to end up destroying English grammar as we know it?

Web-based Calendar

By Kim Siever, 25 Mar 06

I am looking for a web-based calendar that synchronises with PocketPCs or with Outlook. Anyone know of any?

Google Acquires Writely

By Kim Siever, 9 Mar 06

I am so excited about this. InformationWeek announced that Google has acquired online word processing provider, Writely. The announcement has caused Writely to shut down new registrations as they do the migration. I am glad I registered when I did. All my non-work documents are created in Writely. I hope there is tighter integration with GMail.