November 2006 Archives
20 entries
Dave's lunch
But specifically, the beer (Blanche du Chambly) — a really great beer I also tried once in Quebec City. Mmm.
Adactio: More thoughts on portable social networks
Some really interesting thoughts on social networks, contact/friend lists, microformats, etc.
Safari better than Firefox?
Proof of Safari’s typographic superiority.
Web 2.0 = the web
John Allsopp: “Tim Berners-Lee gave us … the name ‘world wide web’ (and I mean quite literally gave). It’s served us well for 15 years. I think it sill works well. Let’s keep using it a little while longer yet eh?”
Wine Library TV
Host Gary Vaynerchuk is the Ze Frank of the wine vlog world. Great stuff.
I’m tearing things apart around here in order to put them back together again. This site will look terrible for awhile, but it’s the only way. Eventually, there’ll be something brand new to see — but it requires some heavy lifting in terms of templates.
Sometimes the only way to get something done is to just take a leap.
Happy Cog Studios: About us
Happy Cog grows, and strategically partners with bits of the simple variety.
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art Of Web Design
A peek inside Andy Clarke’s new book. Looks absolutely fantastic.
Newly Supported CSS Selectors in IE7
Who put the child and adjacent sibling combinators in my Internet Explorer?
Win a Free Ticket to Web Directions North
Submit a snowboard design or photo of an improvised snowboard of your own invention to enter.
Technorati Link Count Widget
Little snippet of javascript will show how many blogs link to your posts. Tired of comment spam? Maybe we could all just use this.
A tip for Pearl owners that are having trouble deleting mail from both the device and your mailbox (in my case, an IMAP account): go to options and permanently set the removal to both “handheld and mailbox” (it’ll prompt you otherwise on each delete). Setting this fixed the issue for me, and now I can trash spam while I wait in line at the post office. Woo.
Sure they sound a bit like early Smashing Pumpkins (and hey, that’s a good thing), but Silversun Pickups “Carnavas” has been receiving some regular rotation over here. I’m loving the 90s indie rock resurgence that’s been happening lately.
An Event Apart Boston
Posted at 4:16 PM
An Event Apart is coming to Boston in 2007! And they’ve super-sized it into a two-day conference with an amazing lineup of speakers including some dude named Dean Cedarhouse or something. He will be speaking about something great (have any fantastic topic ideas? Comments welcomed).
Here’s your hCalendar hookup:
- An Event Apart Boston March 26-27th 2007 · Marriott Copley Place, Boston
The awesomeness at this gathering will be inescapable. I’m really looking forward to it, and I hope you can make it. There are even post-show beer plans already in the works.
I’ve been trying out (and thoroughly enjoying) Twitter. Another quick, simple way of creating content, and much of what I love about posting to sites like Flickr, Cork’d and others. The article-based format of title/description is hindering what I write about these days here at SimpleBits. Often I’m putting too much thought and emphasis on each entry — treating an entry like an article, when most of the time it’s a quick thought about a particularly timely subject. But the web moves too fast for me, and a lot of thoughts don’t get published at all. Drafts abandoned. I’m going to experiment with the format here on the Notebook to help me get back into the fine art of crafting a true weblog. We’ll see how it goes.
Bar Code Revolution
Design elements integrated into product barcodes. (via)
Brand New
A new weblog displaying opinions, and focusing solely, on corporate and brand identity work.
Joe Clark Micropatronage
Donate to support Joe while he starts up a research project.
Workshopp'd (and a break)
Posted at 8:21 PM
I’ll start off by mentioning that the Carsons (Gillian and Ryan) are two of the nicest people you’ll meet in the business. I’m grateful to them for setting up Thursday’s workshop at Boston’s Museum of Science.
I think it went well, and I’ve received some good, positive feedback. As with anything, I’ll now be focusing on the parts that I thought could’ve been presented better — but all-in-all I had a great time, managed to still have a voice after talking for eight hours, and those that attended (suprisingly many from outside of New England) brought along great questions. It’s clear that the majority of people attending conferences and workshops are gaining more and more knowledge about CSS, standards, semantic markup, etc. So much so, that I wonder what the heck I should speak about in the future. Hrm.
So thanks to all who came out to the workshop, and again to the Carsons (they have this stuff down to a science). It capped off the busiest few months I’ve had in years, and in two days we’ll board a plane for Florida to visit family for a week. A much needed unplugging.
While I’m away, Rael Dornfest and company will be presenting Stikkit on the Launch Pad at the Web 2.0 conference. Stikkits are “little yellow notes that think”, and I’ve been helping with the design. Keep an eye out for it!
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