Month / August 2005
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082905
“Geeking is not about high tech. It’s about taking stuff apart and putting https://theathleteprogram.com/buy-cheap-valium-online/ it together and making something new. It’s about curiosity and tinkering, whether it be with gardens, vacuum tubes…
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Besuku ajax flickr gallery
It’s late Saturday night (okay, it’s Sunday morning… I’m in denial) and I’ve been experimenting with various image galleries. Tonight’s new find is the Besuku ajax flickr gallery, a very elegant image…
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Jalenack’s Ajax Periodic Table of Elements
I’ve been wanting a new way to have a grid of thumbnails that pop-up larger images. While I like the functionality of my blog photo gallery, it’s not as seamless to click…
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Emily Chang and Movable Type 3.2
Movable Type 3.2 launches with loads of new features, including Vicksburg, a unified CSS design template by Six Apart designer Walt Dickinson. Emily Chang designs three of the theme color palettes (Desert,…
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Virtual plazes become real
The web has always attracted me because of the play between what’s real, virtual, and how one can become the other fairly easily. While others have framed this much more eloquently than…
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Wiki from Adaptive Path’s Ajax User Experience Week
If you’re interested in gaining further insight into the many facets of Ajax (see my post about Ajax from Feb 05), there’s a wiki with conference notes and perspective from Adaptive Path‘s…
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Design something original
Princeton Technology has created a hard drive that’s “inspired by” the Mac Mini, so much so that it really looks just like it other than the logo etched on the top and…
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Movable Type 3.2 Released
Movable Type 3.2 was released this morning by the team at Six Apart. The new release has a wealth of features designed to make blogging even easier and smarter. Max and I…
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Coolpix sky
Here’s the first 7.1 megapixel photo I’ve ever taken. The first of many photos to come with my new Nikon Coolpix 7900 camera. Max and I have been using a Coolpix 4500…
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Texture Wall
Two photos of different parts of the same wall. Love the subtle details. Shot on Harrison St, SF.
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Wikipedia for all
One of my all-time favorite websites is the wikipedia – partly because I’ve used it for many years to look up terms, concepts, historical facts; also because I like to link to…
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Symbols and Synchronicity
I mentioned how I like it when synchronicities pop up at different times in an earlier post last week, but I have to mention another odd coincidence because 1) it’s cool and…
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Pingoat rocks
I’ve been looking at ways to increase blog traffic and I’ll be posting more about the services and various techniques I’m using, but for now, you’ve got to try pingoat, a great…
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Plazes location mapping
Twenty-four hours ago, I was playing with IndyJunior and wishing I could add more real-time data to the map or share the data with someone in more ways than just a hover…
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Web Mapping Technology
I was searching to see if anyone had released some Ajax-driven maps and came across “Build AJAX-Based Web Maps Using ka-Map” by Tyler Mitchell which led me to an open source map…
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XML and Flash Map of My Travels
I found Bryan Boyer’s IndyJunior several years ago when it was still v1.3 and played with it back then. For some reason, it popped into my head again the other day so…
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Hacker Ethic
“In general I have a hacker ethic regarding my work: I don’t really want my job to be neatly divisible from my life. The concepts and ideas that I bring to both…
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Open source
MIT Technology Review has a story, The Tech Boom 2.0, that covers a point of view that I couldn’t agree with more. I often use open-source software to develop high-end, robust, and…
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Blog comments on
I’ve resisted turning comments on in my blog for some time. It’s not that I haven’t wanted feedback from you or to know what you think. It probably has more to do…
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081505
“It’s a matter of projecting a persona and your perception of me.”
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Qube Sign
Wicked car-as-sign.
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One Year Later
Tonight marks the one year anniversary of moving here to SF and finding ourselves right where we want to be – in the heart of the web world with our own selected…
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Designing Thinking
As a design-focused firm, I’m encouraged by the recent emphasis on business adopting more strategic design thinking and process techniques. I’m familiar with the same sources and I like how the author,…
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Barcode Building
I’ve always like the simplicity and functionality of bar codes. In art school, I made a series of oversized bar code prints as rough posters and had a collection of various bar…
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Ideacodes to Create Wireframes and Visual Designs for Six Apart
Six Apart, the world’s leading weblog company, hires Ideacodes to assist in wireframe design and development, as well as interface and visuals for the next version of its popular blog service. Co-founded…
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SF Night
Night time traffic on the interstate as seen from our window. Even after a year, this scene still fascinates me. Any hour of the day or night, endless cars stream across several…
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080105 Desktop
Some things are just liberating for all the right reasons (like working on your own websites).
