Monthly Archives: April 2008
Shoes from the future: Puma Voltaic model 181755-19
Puma’s lace-up moccasin design is brilliant. You can tie loose knots to speed through airport security or you can tighten them up for more support. Plus, they look like something Doc Brown brought back from 2015. I might get a … Continue reading
Got “Inbox Zero” handled? How about “RSS Zero”?
“Inbox Zero” is hard for most people, presumably because they’re forced to use Outlook (the horror!), Entourage (also horror!), or pretty much any mail client except Gmail. It was hard for me too until Gmail’s “archive” button and its excellent … Continue reading
Open thread: “Ask a web dude”
Got questions? I’ve got (hurried, unresearched) answers. Everyone wins! The domains that I have muscle-memory ninja level skills in are CSS, HTML, typography, uncluttered graphic design, setting up WordPress blogs, and web technology in general. The domains I’m learning about … Continue reading
“We could make this a free system again”
I must have a t-shirt that looks like this:
I’m naked because I love you: an in-depth look at my web traffic statistics
Few people are comfortable opening their kimono, dropping trou, and going commando when it comes to their web traffic data. What’s the big deal? If your traffic is small, tell your readers a story about how you’re trying to grow. … Continue reading
Intranet design is career suicide (don’t be invisible)
I spent 6 years of my 20s as a web designer at an financial services company in L.A. The people were good, the work was occasionally not horrible, and the pay was better than I thought I would ever get … Continue reading
Cartoon guide for learning how to snowboard
The backlog of blog posts “I’ll get to eventually” is ridiculous. I write ideas on 3×5 cards as they pop in my head. Over time I’ve had to scale up the one bulldog clip to rule them all from tiny, … Continue reading