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Write and write and write
The best advice for any blogger: Just keep doing it. Write and write and write and write and write. Just keep going. In a few years you will be so glad you did. This is what I’m banking on, and is the reason I blog. At this point I’m going on blind faith, but I…
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Amazon S3
Hey, this is an interesting idea. Amazon has started a service called S3 that can be used for web storage. In case the idea of web storage is perplexing to you, it’s actually pretty simple. Your personal computer stores files on its hard drive. Web services like Gmail or Flickr store your mail or photos,…
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blog my read
I’m still really surprised when people tell me they read my blog. It happens somewhat regularly in conversation. I’ll just be talking to someone and they’ll drop in the fact that they’ve been reading this site. It catches me off guard every time, and I stop and wonder how I should react. Generally I just…
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updates are a comin
I swear. I just have to let them congeal a little bit and form a cohesive whole. SB06 rocked. More to come soon.
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Google Mars
First there was Google Maps. Then there was Google Earth. Eventually we got Google Moon. Finally, we have Google Mars. (It’s about time.)
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Jump!
Go!
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Musical Jackpot
So Puneet told me about this a while ago, but I’ve stumbled back upon archive.org’s Live Music Archive. It is quite awesome, and I’m currently listening to a Toad the Wet Sprocket that I was at, but showed up late to… Check it out, perhaps your favorite bands are there. Oh, and in case it’s…
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Arms Race
Arms Originally uploaded by Square714. Alternate title: “Photograph: Funny Human Being (Circa 2006 AD)” Oh Puneet, I love it when you break out the engineering diagrams when discussing everyday events. Why yes, it seems that your right is longer than your left. Way to make lemonade from the lemons. On that note, I could really…
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It is time we set fonts free
Here is a great article and comment thread on the topic of browser fonts. I agree that we as designers should be outraged that there are such huge limits in type choice on the web. Choice of font does matter, and it is important to give designers the freedom to make web content as easy…
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DC is back
Today was the first Design Club meeting in a long long time. It returns relatively unscathed, perhaps in a new format, and with a brand new name. It is now happily dubbed “Design Club!”, though without the quotation marks and with the exclamation point. The first thing I want to say about this topic is…