Monthly Archives: July 2007

9 Diet Hacks Comments Off

I’m not pro-diet, I think diets suck, and in general any weight you DO lose, you gain back two-fold, the reason is simple, the concept of a diet is to eat less and burn more until you reach a certain goal, that first part is good - the second part is the problem. A diet […]

Off-The-Cuff Fiction Fragment Comments Off

Poison, I never considered poison, now with the mouthful of cheap tequila warming my gut, the idea of poison seemed obvious, was it the whole bottle, or just the glass, would it be a fast demise, or a slow painful descent into hell, feeling tremendously exposed and vulnerable I poured myself another shot, and tossed […]

When Kittens Attack… Comments Off

4 Creative Business Realities and some creative math Comments Off

Late at night I make lists, this one is in progress… Some undeniable truths of dealing with clients as a creative, and some real-world traslations to some VERY common statements.

The kind of work you show - is the kind of work you get.
Regardless of how organized and proactive you are, clients will screw with your […]

Michael Vick & Dog Fighting Comments Off

I’m going to get on my soapbox for this post, If you’ve been following the news Atlanta Falcons star (and franchise player) Michael Vick was recently indicted for his involvement with dog-fighting. What does Mr. Vick get for his heinous crime, well… the charges are pending, but the Falcon’s are going to suspend him for […]

Vector HTML Markers 2

Sometime it’s the simple things, I needed to markup a pile of layouts for a team of developers - and my handwriting is highly questionable - simple enough, 5 minutes later and I had a simple Adobe Illustrator symbol library with all the needed HTML tags - a few minutes of drag and drop and […]

Minimize, Simplify, Hunt, Gather 1

I’ve been working to minimize my life, It’s a highly educational process. You really get to know yourself as a person, when you’re deciding what stays and what goes.
I have a experiment I’d like you to try, go to Home Depot get yourself a reasonably large plastic bin, and some biggish plastic bags. Got them? […]

ROR OnBoard! Comments Off

Spent some time last night watching the Ruby on Rails screencasts, amazing stuff…I don’t see a point when I would be doing this kind of work for clients, but then again I never thought 80% of my work would involve CSS either. In the short term I might just make a few small apps for […]

Naming Tech Comments Off

Much like children and pets, items of modern technology needs a name, in order for our expensive toys to talk to each other we have to give them some type of moniker, I’ve always been amused at what people name their gear — the ones I’ve seen fell into several camps;

sci-fi references like crusher, […]

Useful WebDev Links Comments Off

I was just cleaning up a few bookmark bar folders, and I thought these might prove useful for someone - I’ll assume you know what a bookmarklet is. Also I did not write any of these bookmarklets (I simple gathered them), I use them, find them endlessly useful and am storing them here purely as […]