September 2009
62 posts
Super cool scribble effect tutorial from vector tuts has me playing with illustrator again http://bit.ly/7Iejh
Target has signage for “unsweetened water”. I thought we, as a society, agreed that was what we called… water.
Jason on yet another panel. http://pk.gd/HMk
In illustrator, is it possible to control the positioning of a raster swatch. If so, how?
Digsby now keeps a tally of how many tweets I haven’t seen via it. How do I turn that off? That’s the last bit of info I want
Anyone else going to the ITW-SFTA Game Changing Technology event tonight? http://bit.ly/rJ6Lq
On merriam-webster.com the definition of succinct has an ad for an ADHD treatment. #funnyButNotAJoke
Great interview with @adactio regarding html5. Probably the easiest way to “get it”. http://boagworld.com/podcast/184
Playing with helvetireader. More than a little taken aback by they concept of making a more minimal interface to a google app
The podcast I launched Monday is approaching 300 hits! Am I famous yet? http://bit.ly/40TXPH #cpdc
I tend to not tweet links. As cool as the 1st link to a post is, think of the 2nd (or the 3rd) link to the same post.
The crunchpad should run crunchbang, if for no other reason, because it would sound pretty cool.
Safe to assume most of the people who can’t upgrade from ie6 to ie8 probably can’t install Chrome Frame for the same reasons?
Just had an IM conversation about my preference in greeking providers… I learned something about myself… not sure how to deal with that.
Glad to have ma.gnolia again.
Linxter’s browser breakdown: FF 32%, IE8 25%, IE6 14%, IE7 13%, Chrome 10%, Safari 4.5%, Opera .5% #shareyourstats
Podcast where I speak with John McFetridge about azure and silverlight. http://bit.ly/2dHK6V #cpdc
Launched a podcast. I’d love to hear what you think about the first few episodes (and the site). http://cloudplumbing.com
Pennywise + techpen = good saturday. Frustrating that I let myself get so rusty, but feels good to sketch again.
Effective Twitter Backgrounds… really? Is this a goal for people? #clearlyIamNaiveToThisWholeTwitterThing
I made a blog… YAY! Drupal: My $0.02 http://bit.ly/14vm87
“OK”? Is that the best we can do? How much cooler would the world be if default approval submission copy was “Make it so!”?
Developers: have a project you wanna talk about on a fledgling podcast? We have no traffic, but it should be fun! #cpdc
I hear that textmate is close to being cross platform. With a couple of caveats it runs on both leopard and snow leopard
Wow, 1000 tweets sounds like a lot. If I spend 10 seconds a tweet, on average, I have spent… 10,000 seconds writing tweets.
Needing affirmation. I am not the only one who has spent time searching around and testing alternate text editors on a cell phone… right?
“All content management systems suck, Drupal just happens to suck less.” —Boris Mann (DrupalCON Amsterdam, August 2005)
If I forget to flip my kvm switch before booting I get an error message, “No keyboard detected, press esc to continue.”
A word to use in place of “cool” when you think something is cool, but you know it isn’t? Nevermind I’ll just use geeky.
I’m looking forward to hearing @nicolau talk about HTML 5 tonight at #designmia http://bit.ly/10oMOg
I find the admin module removes enough complexity from themeing to make drupal practical for brochure style sites. #protip
Blocks that ship with Drupal’s twitter module can easily be modified so as to only show items with certain hashtags. #protip
How did I not know about “View > New Guide” in Photoshop? Why did no one tell me about “View > New Guide”!?
One too many crashes… Songbird is on time out. I am running back to the arms of VLC.
Unify looks like a pretty cool twist on CMS http://unify.unitinteractive.com
Wow, I misread the footnote reference as an exponent. Thought SQS was a power of 10 more expensive than Linxter. http://bit.ly/1b1Hzi
Anyone else as disappointed as I that the trending term “potus” is not http://bit.ly/FMVwM ?
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Has everyone read the smashing magazine article “How to be a Samurai Designer”? It is pretty awesome! http://bit.ly/3Y4pR2
Heard about a port of wcf to cocoa touch. I can has linxter on an iphone? #tallycc
Listening to hashimi’s talk on mvc viewhelpers. Digging the recurring theme of fullfilling a designers markup specs #tallycc
Really enjoyed steven’s talk. Looking forward to interviewing him later for the podcast #tallycc
Ran into @warrenm waxed poetically about web dev on .net. readers digest version: mvc ftw #tallycc
I hope i win a .net mvc book before the day is up #tallycc
I find myself wondering if 4star people have quieter sex than the 3star people in the hotel room next door.
John is doing a great job of showing us how easy it is to rock restful json on azure. Uses silverlight for bonus cool points #tallycc
Just did the first podcast. Woot! #tallycc