disappearing desktop icon in osx finder sidebar is really just a new one overwriting the original one
Human Computer Interface | User Interface | Design | Functionality | Information Technology | Usability | Finding | Interfaces | trial and error | TroubleshootingSo a while ago when I was figuring out how to get OSX leopard to do fast user switching I noticed that desktop icons (in the Finder sidebar) were different between accounts.
The new 'test' account had the 'default' icon that looks like a thumbnail of the actual desktop--not the 'special folder' icon that is is the default for the Desktop folder that you would see in your Home folder...
the bounded rationality and overall muddle of keyword search
Information Science | Policy Science | Database Search | Keyword Search | Academic Journal Articles | Finding | Keywords | MissingCirca 2003, while studying policy 'sciences' as a new grad student, I was introduced to the concept of the policy 'muddle'.
Rather than fostering expectations of rational and scientific decision and policy-making, the author and professor were introducing us to the pragmatic, glaring disjuncture between the idealized 'policy process' and the real-world situations that range from successes, through 'muddles', to 'disasters, failures, etc.'
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