Ames called me on Tuesday to ask if I had heard “the big news”. I think I surprised her when I said that I had heard of the Adobe/Macromedia merger the day before. Since I hadn’t ranted to her about it Monday night, she wanted to know what my opinon…
I’ve been doing my geocaching the old fashioned way. I login to geocaching.com, search for the zip code I want to cache in, browse through the results, printing out the ones I want to go find, and manually key those coordinates into my Magellan SportTrack Map. This unit actually comes…
In scrolling through my bloglines this morning, I came across Jon’s Hicksdesign family album – a screenshot history of his personal site. At the end of the post was a call out for all designers to bring their skeletons out of the closet, so to speak. “Ok,” I thought, “I…
Gmail has been doing a great job in keeping my inbox free of spam, however as I purge my Spam folder every few days, I’ve been noticing a trend. A majority of my spam has very creative and clever names. I’ve continued to delete these as usual, but I’ve been…
When Ames and I decided to buy the Civic, we wanted to try to sell our 1997 Camry outright instead of trading it in. The one thing we forgot was how picky people are when looking at used cars. The paint is not in the best condition, but the thing runs…
Remember that reading program from when you were a kid where they bribed you into reading books using Pizza Hut pizza? I do. I was a pizzaholic, and would do anything to get that fifth frickin’ star sticker on my pin so I could have pizza for dinner. My brother…
I’m sorry to inform you all, but I will no longer be maintaining this blog or taking part in the web design community. An opportunity has come up that I simply cannot pass over. For all my life (or at least my sleepless college days) I’ve dreamed of one day…
As much as we’ve been trying to avoid it, Ames and I started thinking recently about our car situation: We have a 1997 “Mommy Car” Camry that after replacing the AC compressor, we’re worried is about to hit that maintenance prone part of it’s life. Our other vehicle is a…
I’ve been averaging about 2 hits per minute since about 9pm last night when my site was featured at css vault. I know when I’m checking out sites at CSSVault, I want to know from the front page who the person is, what inspired them, and what I can learn….