Itchy Feet Syndrome

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A lot of people who know me might know this already, but I'm moving to Toronto in August. Mostly a case of itchy feet syndrome. I've visited Toronto on many occasions and I have family there, so I'm really looking forward to living in the city for a while.

From Toronto, I'll still be working for silverorange but from a home office. We already have several people who work from afar, including my twin brother, but it will certainly be interesting adjusting to living outside of physical shouting distance of the rest of my cohorts.

Anyhow, I just confirmed an apartment, so it seems much more certain all of a sudden and I thought it would make sense to mention it here. If you're in Toronto, like the Rudes, I look forward to maybe meeting you soon.

Toronto City Hall by architect Viljo Revell, 1966

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Alan -

http://www.genx40.com

Nice to have you aboard. You will find your new Ontarian welcome package at the border - foil pouch of peanuts, map of Algonquin Park and a guide to the next week's shows at the Horseshoe.

Charlie -

Have fun Dan!

filmgoerjuan -

http://blog.filmgoerjuan.com/index.php

OK, but you realize that now that you'll be a Torontonian, us other Canadians will all have to hate you now? ;)

Melda L Gibson -

http://www.meldagibson.com

Daniel, I will be great to have you around the T-dot!
You'll have to let me where you're place is so I can check it out.

Mandy -

http://www.hellodita.com

Good luck in Toronto Daniel.

Matt McQuaid -

http://www.rudeweb.com

Great news, Dan. I'm quite certain you'll enjoy living in Toronto. Despite my somewhat dire predictions, the city has treated me very well and I like it a lot--more than I could have ever imagined.

And Melda, I will add you to the long list of people I know who live in Toronto completely unbeknownst to me! ;-)

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Daniel Burka

My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm one of the founders of Milk Inc.. For several years I was the creative director at Digg and previous to Milk, I was the director of design at Tiny Speck. I grew up in PEI, Canada, where I was one of the founders of silverorange. Aside from obsessing about interface design and css selectors, I'm a frequently-falling rock climber, a lazy cyclist, and an often out-of-bounds disc golfer.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

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