August 2005
Via Chicago
In a couple of days, I'm driving my twin brother and his girlfriend (and their cat, turtle, and dog) down to Chicago where they'll both be starting graduate programs at UChicago and Northwestern respectively. Incredibly, I've never before been to Chicago and I'm really looking forward to finally …
The Bird Machine
I've got a big old picture frame I've been meaning to fill with something interesting for quite some time. I really liked the poster (look on the right) that Jay Ryan, from The Bird Machine, designed with Coudal Partners a few years ago. So, I was looking around The Bird Machine site and …
Bulletproof Web Design
I've just finished reading Dan Cederholm's latest book Bulletproof Web Design. The book essentially teaches techniques for using clean HTML and CSS to build robust websites — designs that survive user manipulation, that elegantly degrade with missing technologies or features, and which are always …
Disc Golf Tourney '05 (Updated)
The third annual silverorange frisbee golf tournament for charity is now scheduled for Sunday, September 11, at Strathgartney Provincial Park. The last two years we had over fifty entrants and raised lots of money for the charity Habitat for Humanity. • As in previous years, you don't need any …
Favourite Favicons: Eleven
About a month ago, Amber Macarthur, a host on the television program Call for Help, contacted me and asked me to do a really short part on their show about favicons. Anyway, it was fun to tape a little segment with her co-host Leo Laporte about what favicons are, why you might want to have one on …
WYS Is Not WYG
Luckily up until this point of my web development career, I have never used a wysiwyg or visual editor to build HTML and CSS. I literally haven't even installed one on my computer until last week. • However, I'm currently working on a fairly simple project for a client where they'd like to …
