I’ve known about this little thing called sudoku for about two years now, but it wasn’t until last week’s holiday break when I took aim at the ever-popular craze.

I love them. And it makes great sense: one thing I love about my profession is the creative art that’s found in problem-solving. In fact, I get the same problem-solving high from building and executing a css layout (or debugging a few errors in php), as I do from a good sudoku puzzle. What’s next? Those little paragraphs from physics class? I loved those as well. Three days ago I caught myself re-thinking a scenario involving a certain Train A and a certain Train B departing at different times from the same starting point at different velocities.

Wow. How about a nerdy yet collective “hooray” for puzzles?

I just became aware of a great usability designer. His name is Garret Dimon. Though I’ve only read a few of his entries thus far, I can already see that this guy has a lot to teach us about software and web-based usability standards. He’s brilliant.