Back in the Saddle

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I just got back from an all-too-brief week-long road trip to New York last night. It was a fantastic trip and I'll try to compile my impressions of the city and put some of my photos in my gallery in the next couple of days.

While on the road, I was pretty much out of touch with online happenings. I checked my email a few times but my regular reading schedule was interrupted for almost exactly a week. It's kind of fun to catch up on a whole week's worth of reading in a single morning. Here are a few of the most notable things I missed:

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Steven Garrity -

http://www.actsofvolition.com

Oh, so I say don't double-space sentences and you ignore it, but our man J.C. says it and you're all on board!

Charlie -

Ok, I'm just throwing this out there...does anyone really find Diesel Sweeties funny? Erin gets them in her e-mail everyday and I don't think I've heard her laugh yet. I'll just have to stick to Get Fuzzy I guess.

Welcome back Dan ;)

Steven Garrity -

http://actsofvolition.com

Diesel Sweeties is hilarious.

Daniel Burka -

Read this and then evaluate Charlie. I think it helps to follow the cartoon for a while as the history of the characters is frequently important to the humour.

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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.

Currently, I'm the director of design at a small gaming startup called Tiny Speck. Until October 2009, I was the creative director at Digg. I was also one of the co-founders of the social content-sharing site Pownce, which is now a part (heh heh) of Six Apart. Back in 1999, I helped found silverorange, a stellar web development and design firm based in Prince Edward Island, Canada. I continue to work with silverorange, but as an inactive partner.

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The technology that powers this blog was built by silverorange on their Swat open-source web application toolkit. I'm no longer working on day-to-day projects at silverorange, but they're available for hire if you're looking for top-notch interface design or web application development.

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