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Tipping Point

Posted at 11:21 AM

At one of my favorite local coffee shops, I’ve noticed they have a creative take on generating tips. I’m sure this is used elsewhere as well, but it’s the first time I’ve come across it.

There are two baskets by the register, with a rotating sign above that asks a question. Today it was: “Should Obama pick Hillary as Vice President?” Throw your tip in the appropriate basket, and we get an instant, visible poll as a byproduct of giving your barista a little extra change. Some questions generate a more noticeable swing in basket preference (sorry, Hillary), while others are just fun throwaways.

A small reward for participation. I’m sure there’s a parallel here with social web interaction, but I’ll let Josh or someone else who’s hot on this topic decipher it.

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Marked Up & Styled

Posted at 12:25 PM

We held the third gathering of the Markup & Style Society last night (a local Boston-area meetup for web geeks that Ethan Marcotte and I started a while back). This one was different and contained more awesomeness, for a variety of reasons.

The kind folks at Filament Group hosted the event at their downtown Boston studio. The incredibly generous Freshview donated 18 pizzas, beer and wine for all 50 attendees. Freshview are makers of Campaign Monitor, the popular email newsletter campaign app, as well as creators of useful tools and resources for newsletter designers. Thank you thank you, Freshview.

Adobe donated two copies of CS3 Web Premium that we raffled off along with a few books at the end of the night. So we knew at least two people would go home happy no matter what happened.

While previous meetups have all been about beer and socializing, we may have surprised people with four short talks. A free, mini conference if you will. Ethan gave a brilliant presentation on some tricks he’s enabled in his freakishly bulletproof, fluid layout (Ethan’s write-up). I rambled on about “Gridlasticness”: taking an em-based approach to a strict grid. Josh Porter talked about craftsmanship as it relates to the web — a topic near and dear to my heart. It was sprinkled with “right on” moments and quotes like this, regarding the Shaker design philosophy:

Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful, but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.

Scott Jehl closed the show with an excellent talk on how progressive enhancement plays a big role in the projects he tackles at Filament Group. Read more about Filament’s process over at their newly launched lab (Filament’s Maggie Costello Wachs’ write-up).

All in all, ‘twas a great night, and it made up for seeing just one single panel at SXSW just days earlier. We’ll have to do it again soon. Blatently tooting our own horn here, Patrick Haney dug it, evidenced by his tweet:

Really felt like I got more out of the four short talks tonight at M&SS than I did at a week of SXSW

Thanks to the speakers, sponsors and especially Filament for the venue. We’ve also been planning on adding more formal workshops or full day conference-style events to the mix in the future. New England needs more of this, methinks. Stay tuned.

Update: Jenny Bergman has posted some wonderful photos of the event. Thanks, Jenny!

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Quick by Southwest

Posted at 10:06 AM

I was originally planning on skipping this year’s SXSW, but finally caved and booked a quick, two-night visit to the land of a million geeks. Each year, the event seems to grow exponentially, and after 2007, I couldn’t imagine doing it again if the trend continued. But eventually I realized there are far too many people in one place at one time that I need to connect with. That, and JetBlue flies direct from BOS to AUS.

I won’t be speaking this year, and I’m quite happy about that. Instead, I’ll be trying to cram as much catching up as I can over 2.5 days. I’ll also be carrying as many Foamee coasters as I can, so be sure to say hi and ask for one (free!).

Markup & Style Society

Posted at 4:53 PM

Ethan and I are pleased to announce another meeting of The Markup & Style Society next month. It’s a semi-regular, casual meetup for New England area web geeks. This time, things are a little more interesting, and even more secretive. Here are the details:

• Markup & Style Society Thursday, March 13th, 2008 at 7pm Location: To be announced (Near South Station , Boston)

We need to limit the number of guests due to space, and we’ll be keeping track of first 50 people who RSVP via Upcoming. Unfortunately only those folks will be able to attend, so mark your calendars early.

A fun and interesting evening is promised, with after-meetup drinks at a local pub to follow (that’s really the best part, isn’t it?). We’re also looking for a friendly sponsor to cover pizza during the event. Interested? Let us know and you’ll be forever remembered as “that awesome company that gave us pizza that one time at that thing a while back”.

Webstocked

Posted at 8:05 PM

I just returned from New Zealand, where I spoke at Webstock. I am tired. I had a tremendous time. I was amazed at the quality of the organization of the conference. I loved the branding that was found on everything from the t-shirt to the speakers’ dinner menus. I saw many old friends and met new ones. I think my talk went over pretty well. I missed out on a lot of the talks due to being obsessive about my slides. I found out I’m not the only one that does that.

I took a lot of pictures. I rented a car and drove up through the center of the North Island and back. I was scared to drive on the opposite side of the road. I loved the espresso in Wellington, in particular People’s Coffee which was free throughout the conference. I’d like to attend more conferences that dispense free, high-quality espresso. I wish I could’ve visited the South Island. I really should’ve enabled mobile roaming before I left the country. I think kiwis are extremely friendly people. I found out that the term kiwi comes from the bird and not the fruit.

I never had a February 11, 2008. I missed my family terribly. I’m calling New Zealand “earth concentrate”, where a two-hour drive can take you through 10 different landscapes. I saw a few movie stars at the hotel in Wellington. I left my iPhone USB cable at a motel near Lake Taupo. I paid $39NZ for a new iPhone USB cable. I am thankful and honored for having to the opportunity to travel so far to talk about web design. I’ll be forever grateful to the hard-working Webstock organizers, in particular Natasha Hall and Mike Brown.

I think I’ll post this, just as it is.

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Markup & Style Reminder

Posted at 11:04 AM

Just a quick reminder of next week’s meet-up of the Markup & Style Society. Ethan and I have occasionally put together these informal gatherings in Boston for the past few years. They’re always a good time, and we’re always amazed by the turnouts.

So join us next Wednesday the 26th at Boston Beer Works on Canal. The format of these meetings is pretty simple: we meet and enjoy beverages for a few hours. That’s it. Perhaps we need a secret handshake or other ceremonial traditions. Those will evolve in time. We do have plans to expand this a bit in the future, and would love any ideas on a venue around town to hold a more structured meeting.

Lastly, there are a few more pinſ available if you don’t have one yet. Hope to see you fellow New Englanders there.

Middle West

Posted at 9:59 AM

I’ve been meaning to write up some thoughts on last week’s An Event Apart Chicago. It was my first trip to the city in the middle west that sits on a big lake. Hot dogs were eaten. Cheezborgers were inhaled. Deep dish pizza was shoveled. I was inflated. Chicago is without a doubt a food city — but how the heck does anyone stay under 300 lbs. there?

The event itself was excellent. Of course it was excellent. Whenever you get a bunch of great speakers and cool attendees under one roof for a few days, that’s the way it’s going to go. But there are other reasons why this particular show was a success.

In my opinion: one track continues to rule. It rules because you don’t have to decide where to go and what to miss. But it also rules because the conversations in the hallways and pubs can be centered around the same sessions. There’s no “ah, I missed that one because I saw ______ instead”. There’s a complete shared experience between all attendees, and that’s a very good thing.

On the opposite end of the spectrum is SXSW, which will have approximately 23,867 panel sessions next year. Maybe we’ll be able to talk about one of them together. Maybe we’ll also bump into each other at that party on Sixth. Or more likely, we’ll leave feeling like we’ve missed the real conference.

Another key to the single track at AEA: breaks. And a lot of them. An hour is a long time to sit, and a nice break after every session really helps. It also helps in that it gives more opportunity to chat with people. And you can chat about the session that just happened while it’s fresh. It seems obvious, but not every event is structured like this.

I’m bummed I missed Liz Danzico’s The Seven Lies of Information Architecture talk. But I was busy freaking out about my session that immediately followed, going over slides up to the last minute, as usual.

Derek Featherstone wowed us with a semantically rich crossword puzzle styled with CSS.

A highlight was Coudal’s closing keynote, where he talked about the balance between work that pays the bills and the personal projects that are exciting, fun and if you’re lucky can also pay the bills. A lot of what he was saying hit close to home — the idea that maybe we all don’t have short attention spans. We get inspired and have those moments of sheer excitement when diving into something new. I liked that Jim said this was OK. See the hilarious aforelinked film that supplements this.

It was a quick trip, but luckily was able to squeeze in a river boat tour of downtown Chicago with friends old and new. The architecture is incredible, and sitting on a boat floating through the city is my kind of sightseeing. From the river, one can take in the hundreds of skyscrapers that pepper the riverside. Just amazing.

Photos were taken by me and by many others.

After Media

Posted at 9:29 AM

Last Wednesday, I emerged from Paddington Station and hopped in a cab. “EYElington, please,” I said. “IZlington, you mean,” said the cabbie. “Oh, right.” Then, after asking how much the approximate cost of the trip wil be, he replied, “Whatever it says on the meter.” Twenty minutes and £23 later, I’m at the Business Design Center in the London borrough of Islington (make that IZlington) for @media 2007 — European Edition.

‘Twas a great conference, of course: 2 days over 2 tracks. Lots of inspirational stuff from talented folks of the internets. A special standout though was Drew McLellan and Simon Collison’s tongue-in-cheek battle, High-Noon Shoot-Out: Design vs. Implementation. When Drew starting passing out picket signs that read “There is no fold!” I believe there was no way to top it for the rest of the show.

My talk could’ve gone better I think, as a few few people even told me afterwards I seemed a bit “off”. Ah well, I blame the jetlag. It was the third time giving this talk, and those times previous I’ve received really positive feedback.

The highlight of the trip, was when Jeremy Keith presented me with a bottle of Pinot Noir (and Joe Clark a carton of cranberry juice), on stage during the Hot Topics panel that closed the conference. The wine was a gift for the word “bulletproof” that graces the title of Jeremy’s excellent book, Bulletproof Ajax. It was a nice wine (the label escapes me now, damn I should’ve written it down) and three of us managed to polish it off over the course of the hour. Naturally, I’m thinking a glass of wine should be sitting next to me during every presentation from here on out.

Later during the panel, Joe Clark announced that he has retired from his work on web accessbility. He’s done an enormous amount in the field — and his efforts should be applauded. Best of luck with what’s next, Joe. This follows a recent announcement from Molly Holzschlag that she’s leaving the web conference circuit. Again, enormous contributions to the field, and an inspiring speaker.

Two weeks prior to England, the whole family was over in San Francisco for @media America, followed by a few days of sightseeing around the Bay Area. This was a smaller, more intimate affair, with a single track over 2 days. But smaller can be a positive thing, and single tracks work when the presenters are top notch. A standout here was Richard Ishida speaking on internationalization — a topic I’m not directly tied to on a daily basis, yet his presentation was entertaining, informative and delivered flawlessly. Be sure to catch him speak.

My talk in SF went fine, although after a brief segment on microformats, I mistakenly said something like “stay tuned for much more on microformats later today. Tantek Çelik’s presentation is sure to be less cohesive than mine”. Laughter erupts, and at the time I wasn’t entirely sure why. I was enjoying the moment. It wasn’t until Tantek (good sport that he is) came up to me afterwards, chuckling. Oopsie.

Note for next trip: toddlers do not appreciate wine tastings.

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Gone Fishing

Posted at 3:09 PM

We’re packing up over here for a little trip to San Francisco for @media followed by a few days of vacation. The whole family is coming with me, and we’re excited about everything, save the 6+ hour flight. Snacks? Check. Sesame Street? Check. Non-noisy toys? Check.

I’m posting this primarily to warn anyone of a delay in email response that’ll begin shortly. Well, there’s always a delay these days, but it’ll be even worse for the next little while.

See you on the left coast, or when we return.

An Event Apart Boston

Posted at 12:37 PM

Don’t wait for An Event Apart to come to your city — just make plans to catch the next one wherever it is (Seattle is next). AEA Boston was probably the first two-day, single-track conference where I felt like every session was extremely valuable. I came away from each presentation either inspired or educated (or both). The easy, 20 mile commute to Boston didn’t hurt either, and having Kerry and Jack see me speak for the first time was fantastic (at one point up on stage, I could hear “Dada!” from the back, and I’ll tell you … that calms the nerves).

I had fun talking about “Interface Design Juggling” — a potpourri of color, typography, favicons (yes, favicons!), microformats and bulletproofness. This was the first run through of this particular set of ideas, but I think it went pretty smoothly. I was relieved to hear several people thank me for devoting time to favicons — a fun topic that I think deserves more attention. And I’m looking forward to expanding that segment in the future.

The latest updated versions of the slide deck can be found here (in PDF form) for those that were in attendance. As usual, they might not make sense without the commentary — and more importantly some of the transitions are muddled into a single slide (Keynote kept crashing when I tried to export each transition into its own slide).

Thank you to Jeffrey and Eric for inviting me to speak — it was quite an honor to share the bill with such an amazing group.

SXSW 2007

Posted at 10:35 PM

John Allsopp said in Vancouver last month, “you bring people together and stuff happens”. He was referring to Web Directions North at the time, but you could certainly apply that to any good conference. And it’s true, there’s no substitue for meeting with like-minded people in physical space. Stuff happens that wouldn’t happen otherwise on either end of bits and bytes.

SXSW 2007 came to a close earlier this week, and the reasons for returning have been confirmed yet again: going to SXSW is about people. The panels and presentations are a bonus — but it’s primary asset (for me) is about connecting and reconnecting with people. People who share a common thread about the work we do and the stuff that matters in relation to that work.

SXSW was big this year. I missed the previous year, and so it seemed really big compared to 2004 and 2005. An overwhelming schedule, not enough time to see everyone, etc. Surely they’ll reach a point of maximum capactiy — but it doesn’t appear there’s a cap on attendees. This year, I put far less pressure on myself to stick in panels all day. Instead, I chose a few I couldn’t miss, then didn’t mind skipping a few because lunch (and interesting conversation) ran later than expected.

In terms of the overall vibe of the conference, I think Jeremy Keith nails it here:

… technology is being relegated to its correct role: a tool for allowing people to connect and share their stories. Whether it’s Ruby on Rails, Ajax, tagging or the World Wide Web itself, I got the feeling that what really matters now is personal communication — storytelling by any other name.”

It didn’t occur to me until after reading Jeremy’s post — but there was a real quality to the things people were excited about, talking about, working on, etc. That was motivating and inspiring.

I’d be on any panel with Brian Oberkirch. The guy just makes it easy. It was fun talking about something other than CSS, and our power session panel ran more like an interview about working remotely, outside the Bay Area and what that means in creating for the web. I wish we had time for questions though, as several people came up to the stage after the session ended and we all had some really interesting discussion that would’ve been great for the whole room. Ah well. I’m half-hoping they ditch the 25 minute sessions next year.

I was also honored and flattered to introduce Andy Clarke and Jason Santa Maria’s panel: Bullet Tooth Web Design: Plan Your Web Site like Pulling off a Robbery. The room was packed (and rightfully so to see those dudes) and the gag was a funny one. The best part was the continuation of the metaphor throughout all of the Q&A, with the audience framing their questions as if the entire thing was rehearsed.

All in all, good fun. I’m getting more and more out of the smaller, more focused conferences these days, but in getting the most bang for your buck, you can’t beat Austin in March.

Web Directions North

Posted at 10:05 PM

I’ve returned from several days in Vancouver, and the first-ever Web Directions North. It was a great trip, a great conference, and my second attempt at snowboarding in the last 20 years.

I’ll first say congrats to Maxine, John, Dave and Derek for putting on what was an oustanding show. The four keynotes were especially entertaining, while often hilarious and inspiring. I presented Microformats for Designers as part of a three-pack of talks on microformats, following Tantek Çelik and John Allsopp (intimidating!). The initial feedback seemed positive, and I hoped that I could offer a different perspective on microformats, focusing on the visual side of things. I’m just glad I could sneak a mention of Guided by Voices somewhow into a presentation (while referencing the “independent spirit” of microformats that has always interested me, as well as comparing their prolific 4-track recordings with the “use what works today” microformats principle).

On Friday I took advantage of one of two days of snowboarding at Whistler mountain, about a 2 hour bus ride from downtown Vancouver. The bus ride though giant peaks was worth the trip alone, but I also managed to travel down part of the mountain along with a few other bunny slope beginners during a two-hour snowboard lesson. This is a serious ski resort, and future home of the 2010 Winter Olympics. I still have some training to do.

Anytime I blog about a conference, it always ends with “it’s all about hanging with old friends, making new ones, meeting with fellow geeks, etc.”. WDN was no exception, and the crack organization team did a fantastic job at putting together two days of social/conference balance. I hope I can get back to Vancouver at some point to see more of the city, next time bringing the whole family out (it’s getting harder and hader to travel without them).

I also had good fun meeting folks from Adobe and Microsoft (both sponsors of the conference). I come back feeling more positive regarding the future of Internet Explorer as a result of some off-the-record conversations. It’s clear that there are smart people there that understand the way things could/should be and actually care. And no, that’s not the free après ski party talking.

Next stop: Austin. And then back home for An Event Apart Boston, which appears to be selling like hotcakes. I’m putting together a brand new talk for this event and I’m excited to start whipping it into shape.

Microformats for Designers

Posted at 10:57 PM

In a little less than two months, I’ll be heading to Vancouver to speak about “microformats for designers” at Web Directions North. It’ll be a fun topic, and I’m starting to put together the material. I’m looking forward to talking about microformats from a designer’s perspective, including a little bit about the logo development, the implementations over at Cork’d (and the unexpected cool things that came out of that), as well as applying CSS to microformats.

But I’m also looking for help. What are some interesting things happening with microformats and design? Know of any great examples, visual experiments, etc.? Here are a few to get started:

• Hightlight Microformats with CSS
• Microformats Icons
• Styling hCards with CSS

I know there’s a lot happening out there, so let’s hear about it. And thanks!

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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.

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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!

More Workshop Details

Posted at 10:54 AM

Amidst a flurry of client activity over here at SimpleBits HQ, I’m also lovingly crafting what I hope to be a great Carson Workshop: Bulletproof Design with XHTML & CSS on November 2nd in Boston. The venue is now booked, and it’ll be a fun one: Boston’s Museum of Science — a place anyone who’s grown up in the area knows very well. Perhaps between sessions we can chill out in the planetarium or IMAX theatre. Anyhow, I think it’ll be a great setting, and I can only hope I’m able to make the day helpful, fun, inspiring and interesting.

I should also note I’ll be handing out stickers, t-shirts and books to attendees in scheduled bursts of shameless self-promotion. I haven’t yet determined the criteria for receiving the goods — but we’ll think of something interesting.

Hope to see you there.

Upcoming Speaking Events

Posted at 10:34 AM

A few years ago I would’ve told you that two of my biggest fears are: flying and public speaking. Thankfully, that’s no longer entirely true, and like anything, the more you tackle things that frighten the hell out of you, the easier (and even enojoyable) they become.

That said, I’ve lined up a few speaking events that I’m quite excited about, and conveniently they’ve all been just announced within the past few days:

• Carson Workshop: Bulletproof Design with XHTML and CSS November 2, 2006 9:30am-5:30pm · Boston
  Having a whole day will be excellent for diving deeper into the concepts and techniques described in the book. I’ll be using the design of Cork’d as a model for much of the day, discussing the bulletproof methods for designing with lean markup and flexible style. It’s also a bit daunting having an entire day — but the 40 seat limit will (I hope) create a two-way conversation, and I’m looking forward to talking about things that would otherwise get tossed out of a short presentation. I also like the commute to this.
• Web Directions North February 6-10, 2007 · Vancouver
  The best conference of the southerrn hemisphere comes north to Canada. Brought to you by John Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin of Westciv, Dave Shea and Derek Featherstone. A great lineup, and skiing at Whistler. I’ll be talking about microformats (with more details to follow).
• @media 2007 (America) May 24-25, 2007 · San Francisco
  The best conference in Europe comes stateside!
• @media 2007 (Europe) June 7-8, 2007 · London
  Vivabit knows how to put a really great conference together. Last year’s event was fantastically organized and a real blast. Wish the World Cup happend every year though.

Admittedly, I’m not entirely sure what I’ll be speaking about this year at @media yet (a conference that’s gone tri-continental this year, with a stop in Hong Kong as well). Actually, feel free to suggest something in the comments (topics could include “ukuleles” or “designing with baby toys”).

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Educated

Posted at 10:43 AM

There’s a myth that colleges and universities are teaching antiquated web design skills: table-and -spacer-gif-ness, FrontPage 98, etc. Actually, I don’t think it’s a myth — it’s actually happening out there. So after touring Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts yesterday, I was completely surprised. CDIA offers an interactive design program with an emphasis on CSS, web standards and hand-coding — and it’s right in my own backyard.

Jeremy Osborn, the program’s Director, mentioned that, while BU offers the resources and infastructure of a large university, CDIA is largely independent and run much like a startup — adapting and changing the curriculum as the techniques and methods out in the real world do. I found this approach pretty fascinating, and it’ll be interesting to see how their program evolves along with the web itself.

I’m hopeful there are other programs out there in other states and countries that are offering modern skills for budding designers of the web. Leave a comment if you know of any.

Also, if you’re in (or planning to be in) the Boston area, have an interest in teaching web design, and have the skills to guide the next generation of standardistas, contact jeremy [at] cdiabu dot com. They’re expanding fast.

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Webvisions 2006

Posted at 2:02 PM

I’ve returned from Portland, successfully capping off the little Summer Tour. It feels really good to be back, save for the immediate dive into a pile of work. I had a great time at Webvisions — my first time attending the conference (and the state of Oregon).

It was a fun event, and one that feels more intimate despite the full schedule over several tracks. I left feeling like I missed a lot in terms of the panels and presentations, but am looking forward to the podcasts.

My own presentation went well, I think. It was early on Day 2 (8:30am), but the turnout was excellent, and I felt slightly more relaxed this time around. For those that attended, the Bulletproof Web Design slides are available (18MB PDF). They are slightly cryptic without the commentary, but possibly interesting if you’re feeling adventurous. Thanks to those that came out and listened.

The Design Panel (the actual title, which I love) went well, too, in lieu of myself being a bit drained after the morning’s session. There was a great turnout, many of whom brought interesting questions. For instance, after talking about the importance of good copy (a rareity) as interface design, one attendee pimped her own copywriting business (multiple times). Now normally this would be bad practice — but she managed to pull it off humorously. Bryan Veloso did a bang-up job as moderator (excellent meeting him for the first time) and Mike and Keith were spot on.

As with any post-conference rambling, you’ll often hear that the social aspect is just as (or more) important than the program. Very true for Webvisions as well, where it was fun to meet many folks that I hadn’t met before. And it being a smaller conference, that gave way for more time to chat in-depth on things.

Non-Webvisions highlights of visiting Portland included:

• The amazing Japanese Garden (with a free bonus view of the city and Mt. Hood). I was really blown away by it, and the location way up in a rolling hill above the city gave more of a hint at Oregon’s landscape.
• Stumptown Coffee. I had the best mocha I’ve ever tasted here, complete with marked foam.
• The Doug Fir Lounge. Like a pancake house that was turned ultra-hip and cool by the use of giant fir logs, fur-lined walls and crystal moose heads.
• Greek Cuisina. This is where the wrap-up party was, and I’ll let the photographic (and probably videographic) evidence speak for itself. Crazy place.

More photos of Portland (and mostly the Japanese Garden) are over at my Flickr stream. Thanks to Brad Smith and Nick Finck for the invite — they and the rest of the team put on a great show.

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Last Stop on the Summer Tour

Posted at 11:56 AM

My month of ridiculous traveling is about to come to a close this week, where I’ll be heading over to Portland, Oregon for Webvisions. There I’ll be giving a presentation as well as sharing a panel on design with Mike, Keith and Bryan.

This past month has been both stressful and fun (but mostly stressful). London and back. San Francisco and back. Knoxville, Tennessee and back. Now Portland and back. I’m ready to never travel again, and wonder how people do this on a regular basis. I’m also ready to get back to doing, rather than just talking. But we’ll have to wait until after Oregon (which I’m looking forward to: a great lineup in a city I’ve never been to).

London(e)

Posted at 9:47 PM

About an hour into the flight to London from Boston, I spilled a full glass of cranberry juice in my lap. There are several reasons why this was unpleasant, and they all include the words “embarrassed”, “sticky” and “no, I didn’t just pee my pants”.

I’ve now returned from @media on Father’s Day. It was a great trip despite the soggy flight out, and it’s really good to be back home with the family.

Many thanks to Patrick for inviting me to speak. I think it went just fine, and I especially enjoyed the questions at the end of the talk. We watched England win the World Cup match the previous night, so I knew there’d at least be smiling faces in the audience. For those that attended the session, I’ve posted the presentation slides (20MB PDF). Warning: they won’t be of much use without the commentary.

It’s always fun meeting new faces for the first time at these conferences, and @media was no exception. It’s the genuine friendliness of the people in this community that never seems to wear out. Fun times are a given. Wish I had the time/energy to list them all here, but it’s late. I also wish I had taken more photos, but what I did take are now up on Flickr.

Update: I forgot to mention, I successfully spent the torn note at a hotel pub after the @media party. Either my taping job was superb, or it was dark enough to go unnoticeable. Whew.

Torn

Posted at 9:30 PM

Tomorrow night I’ll board a plane for London, where I’ll be presenting Bulletproof Web Design on the second day of @media 2006. I’m pretty excited about the trip, depite being terrified of leaving Jack and Kerry. They’ll be fine, of course. But it feels weird to be leaving, even though I haven’t left yet.

Anyhow, it’ll be great to see some friends I haven’t seen in a long while, and I’m really looking forward to meeting new ones. I don’t get out much these days. If you’re heading to the conference, be sure to say “hi”.

Coincidentally, my talk is the first of the morning after the England vs. Trinadad & Tobago World Cup match. Will anyone show up if they win? If they lose? Will I get swept up into all of this? Probably. And then my session should be even more interesting.

Also, for the past eight years I’ve been carrying around a British £5 note in my wallet from our first trip to England. I have fond memories of the trip, where Kerry and I (not yet married at the time) visited my parents who were staying in Oxford for the summer. My grandfather (on my Dad’s side) made the trip out with us, and I can remember we tired him out with walking tours of Oxford, London and the Cotswolds. I’d been saving this 5 pounds for the day I returned to the UK, to plunk it down in a pub, and tip my glass to my late grandfather, and the great memories of our first trip to Europe.

Last week, while cleaning out my wallet of old receipts, I accidentally ripped the £5 note into four pieces along with the unwanted receipts. Argh. I’ve taped it back together, and just hope it’ll be accepted somewhere. For eight years, it’s happily lived in my wallet (several wallets, actually), and then I had to go and do this, just a week before returning. Ah well.

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Some Speaking Events

Posted at 11:06 AM

The speaking drought is ending this summer and I’ll be taking Bulletproof Web Design on the road to two conferences. Don’t worry though, I won’t be regurgitating the book, but rather using the concepts as a platform to talk about some recent (and future) projects along with the methods and thinking that’s gone into them.

@media 2006 · London · June 15-16

Kerry and I visited (Old) England back in 1998. Loved it of course (especially Oxford). Looking forward to going back, although we originally thought this might be a first big family trip, it’ll be hard to be travelling solo. If you’re attending the conference and see a misty-eyed, intentionally (for now) bald guy glued to his iPhoto-enabled iPod — now you’ll know why.

@media looks like it’ll be a fantastic conference though, with quite an amazing line-up of speakers. Really looking forward to it.

Webvisions 2006 · Portland, Oregon · July 20-21

I’ve never been to Oregon, but have always assumed I’d really dig it. Webvisions has quite a line-up as well, spread out over two days of workshops, panels and keynotes. Should be fun times.

NEWD Meetup: August 4th

Posted at 11:29 AM

Since the last gathering was so successful, Ethan and I thought it was high time to organize another meetup for New England Web Designers (NEWD?). And by organizing we mean: pick a date, pick a time, pick a place, and hope people show up to have a few beverages.

So, we hope you can join us on Thursday August 4th, 7:30PM @ the Cambridge Brewing Company in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA. We’re told there’s Wi-Fi here as well.

Leave a comment here, or over with Ethan if you’re interested in stopping by, and we’ll make sure we have some space reserved.

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Boston-Area Web Geeks Meetup

Posted at 2:18 PM

Continuing the tradition of past gatherings, Ethan and I are organizing a meetup for web geeks in Boston. This time, beer is involved to aid the flow of witty banter on the topics of CSS, why the definition list is underused, and other equally-crucial issues as well. So, I hope you’ll join us, where we’ll be celebrating the end of winter hibernation.

When?

Thursday, April 28th @ 7:30PM

Where?

Boston Beer Works, 112 Canal Street. Conveniently, steps from the Boston Gahden and North Station.

Free temporary use of beer coasters to the person who comes up with a better name for “Boston-Area Web Geeks”. Also, leave a comment here or with Ethan at sidesh0w if you’re interested in attending… and we hope that you will.

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New Office: The BitCave

Posted at 10:24 AM

A few months ago, I had written about the search for office space, and I’m happy to report that SimpleBits is unpacked and settled into its new office. For a while now, I’ve been referring to SimpleBits as a “tiny web design studio”. That remains accurate, but the size of the space doesn’t diminish the benefit of having a place to call “home” and also a place to call “work”.

After doing a fair amount of searching and research, there were several things that made the choice clear — a 150 year-old brick building in downtown Salem, Mass. It’s about a five minute walk from the house. Very key, and being right downtown, I’m close to other businesses, restaraunts and, well… people. But also, having a flexible landlord helps to ease the worry of having a monthly expense this large. If things don’t work out, I can opt out of the lease. Having been here a few weeks, I can’t see that happening, but it’s a nice safety net. Also potentially helpful, is the possibility of moving to larger space within the building if necessary. Moving sucks, but would suck less if you can stay under the same roof. Something you might consider inquiring about if you (like me) just need room enough for one person now, but potentially more in the future.

Probably the most important aspect of the new office’s location is what lives on the ground floor (I’m up on the 4th floor). The Boston Hot Dog Company and (coming soon) Ben & Jerry’s (Vermont’s finest ice cream). The office will get even smaller, due to me getting larger.

As for the office itself, although it’s tiny, it took a vanload of IKEA furniture to outfit it. This was my first excuse to drive 3 hours to the nearest IKEA for the best price/design ratio out there as far as office furniture goes. It also struck me how IKEA is the “web standards” of the furniture world. Choose a couch. Grab the base model. Then choose a slip cover for the color you’d like. Choose from a crazy number of storage combinations — all modular and eventually fitting together (after a few hours of assembly). It’s designed not only to look good when it’s put together — but it’s also designed to stack and travel well before it’s even put together. I was impressed with it’s use of structured markup and CSS…. err, I mean vaneered particle board, wooden pegs, and silver framework.

So now, I get used to going somewhere to work every morning again, and things feel a bit more legitimate — like there’s room to think and grow. This seemed important, and now that I’m in here, I’m realizing how right I was.

Belated SXSW Notes

Posted at 11:43 AM

This is incredibly late, but it seems I went from the airport right back to work after SXSW. Lots of stuff happening all at once. More on this later.

I did want to quickly note that SXSW this year was fantastic. The quality (and number) of panels seemed to double from last year to this year, making it more difficult to choose who to see. It was certainly weblog-centric, but that’s fine by me.

My one complaint about the conference in general: audio. It was often difficult to hear the speakers (myself included). This is certainly minor and easy to fix. But I felt bad that people had trouble hearing me. I will shout next time.

Highlights included:

• Hearing Joe Clark ask why Jason Santa Maria wasn’t captioned during an impromtu Virtual Stan viewing at the “Does Design Matter?” panel.
• Getting decent BBQ at the Iron Works (conveniently located right behind the convention center. I have no idea how I missed this last year).
• Meeting lots of cool people for the first time.
• Seeing those I met last year again (a whole year is too long).
• Jeremy Keith and Andy Budd’s hilarious “How to Bluff Your Way in CSS” panel. (I had been in Austin all of a half hour when I sat in on this — the perfect way to kick off the conference.)
• The Design Eye Guys. Another entertaining panel — humorous, yet really informative to hear about each process involved.
• Microformats. Tantek gave a great presentation, rounding up all the microformats out there. There are a lot them. I love the independent spirit that is attached to the development of these.
• “The Flash vs. HTML Game Show” panel for reasons already well noted.
• The dog wandering around Club DeVille.

I could go on… So that said, if you’re kicking yourself for not going this year — start planning for 2006. It’s become the largest gathering of like-minded web geeks around.

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SXSW 2005

Posted at 10:01 AM

In less than a week, I’ll be making my way down to Texas for SXSW Interactive. I’m excited to see old friends as well as meet new ones. The number of people going this year is incredible, as are the number of panels. Holy cow.

I’ll be speaking on the panel, How to Be Beautiful: More Hi-Fi Design With CSS on Sunday. It’ll be a reunion of sorts of the panel from last year, with Christopher Schmitt moderating myself, Dave Shea, Douglas Bowman and the addition of the incomparable Molly Holzschlag. Should be very fun. Also scheduled is a book signing after the panel (I believe). But I’d prefer to sign bananas, sock monkeys or $100 bills (“do you need this back?”).

I’m planning on bringing down a few t-shirts to sell at a drastically reduced sale price (beer money) for those interested. Just ask.

Also, this is a perfect time to remind people of a sure-fire way to fill those awkward mealtime pauses: the spoon trick. Guaranteed to rejuvinate any lull in conference conversation.

And lastly, my one resolution from last year: get some decent BBQ. Something better than the Salt Lick at the airport just before the ride home. Any suggestions? Stubb’s is probably an obvious choice.

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Long Winter Remedy

Posted at 10:27 PM

I’m gradually learning ways to get through the long New England winters. One such way: cross country skiing. It’s a give-and-take sport, where you’re rewarded for climbing up a long hill by being allowed to ski down a long hill — carefully. Unless of course you actually know what you’re doing. But by the end of three days at the Mountain Top Inn (highly recommended), we were getting good — cocky, even. Turning down windy paths through the woods. The amount of fun was measured by the lack of feeling the 20 degree Vermont air.

If having some fun in the snow helps Spring get here faster, I’m all for it.

A Blurry Photo of Will Ferrell

Posted at 5:49 PM

Mom asks, Hey, there’s a Swedish Christmas festival happening downtown on Saturday, would you and Kerry like to go? Well, yeah! That alone could be fun — pancakes, meatballs, Tomtes, crisp bread, Will Ferrell, Glögg — whoa whoa, wait. Will Ferrell? File this one under: Places You’d Least Likely Meet Movie Stars Named Will.

The star of Saturday Night Live and countless comedic film gems was there to crown the “Queen of Light”, St. Lucia. Of course. Apparently, Will’s Swedish wife has Boston roots as well. But still…

My favorite part of his little monologue, to a crowd of only a few hundred: Thank you. It’s great to be here at the Swiss festival. I love Switzerland.

So, I took his picture with my phone, and he signed our Elf DVD (we did find out the day before that he’d be there, albeit it was so under-publicized that we didn’t believe it) and that was that.

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Pixies

Posted at 6:49 PM

No sooner was the Thanksgiving turkey consumed than Kerry and I were packing to head up to freezing Montréal for the weekend. The cold weather and short trip made for not seeing all of the city that we probably should have, but we were there for one reason and one reason only: to see the Pixies play live.

Second on a list of “I didn’t think I’d get a chance to see that” (first being the Red Sox miracle of October 2004). Did that really happen? Did the Pixies reunite — and more importantly — did they sound great? Aside from the horrible acoustics of the venue (a hockey arena), the show was surreal — and only would be for a fan that never thought they’d be able to witness it. Heck, Joey Santiago was possibly the largest influence on me, in my old music playing days.

A highlight was seeing bassist Kim Deal play the entire set with a permanent smile. Evidence that the band enjoyed playing together again. And without saying a single word to the audience the whole way though, all four members took a good five minutes at the end to pace the front of the stage, waving and smiling to the crowd that was going berzerk.

Was it worth the six-hour drive? You bet. And I hope to catch another show here in Boston, where I’m told there’ll be many.

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UI9

Posted at 9:44 PM

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Mountain Climbed

Posted at 3:13 PM

We climbed a mountain this past weekend. This photo was taken near the summit after a long hike. A few observations:

• Mountains are tall.
• Mountains are cold and cloudy at the top.
• It seems that people generally enjoy walking up a mountain, then walking back down.
• You should wait to eat your lunch on the way back down, rather than at the top, where it’s cold and windy.
• The first 20 minutes of walking up an incline are the worst.
• Hiking up a mountain with dress shoes and a tucked in button-down shirt is insane (I did witness this).
• Water. Yes.
• When you reach the bottom of the mountain, the feeling is so great that you forget how hard it was going up. There is even a casual mention of “doing this again”.

TOevolt

Posted at 11:56 PM

I’ve just returned from TOevolt in Toronto, where I spoke on “Bulletproof Design”. Joe Clark, Javier Velasco and Adrian Roselli also gave informative talks yesterday on the 3rd floor of a large building on the University of Toronto campus.

It was a quick trip for me, and luckily I was able to squeeze in a two-hour power tour of downtown. The picture to the right was taken of a roof of a clothing store in the Kensington (I think) (thank you, Suzanne) neighborhood of Toronto.

Many thanks to Tara Cleveland for organizing the event, and to my many tour guides this afternoon. It was a pleasure meeting everyone north of the border.

If you’re interested in hearing more about the event, check out writeups by Mathew Hoy (with photos), and Frank Manno.

Items carried in the BP:

• Passport
• Airline tickets
• Customs forms (one of these was slightly too wide)
• Maps (folded)
• Taxi receipts
• Train ticket

Needless to say, the BP was invaluable on travel days this weekend.

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Regarding the Porta-Poti in Maine

Posted at 6:50 PM

The highlight of a relaxing weekend in Maine is best illustrated by a photo I took just outside a Porta-Poti in downtown Damariscotta. By clicking the thumbnail, you’ll notice the large sign in front of a pair of portable toilets which reads, “Porta-Poti Contributions”. I got more than a mild juvenile chuckle after reading this, figuring that after I used the Damariscotta Porta-Poti, perhaps my name should be added to the list.

I felt honored that alongside Barnswallow Bed & Breakfast, Narragansett Leathers, and even McDonald’s (perhaps a catch-all for the entire family?), I too have used these convenient public restrooms.

This also reminded my how clever the naming is for these foul places. “Porta-Poti”, “Porta-John”, etc. — it’s as if the goofy name will somehow lessen the terrible experience of having to use one.

But to say this was the highlight would be actually far from the truth, as we had a wonderful time just north of Portland, hiking and checking out small-town Maine. A nice way to say an early good bye to summer.

Boston Geek Tea Party 2

Posted at 3:41 PM

The last one was a success, so Ethan and I thought it was time to organize another web standards, geek, tea lovers gathering once again in Boston.

This Thursday, September 2nd at 7:00pm (coincidentally International Web Standards Meetup Day) at the Cassava Lounge on Boylston St. (see Sidesh0w for all the details. DEE-tails or duh-TAILS?).

Plenty of boba tea will be available, as well as (hopefully) interesting conversation on all things web, design, code and perhaps other things. Hope to see you there.

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A Gathering in Boston

Posted at 2:51 PM

I know you’re out there. I’ve even heard from some of you. And so, Ethan and I have decided to put together a little informal gathering July 13th at 7:00 PM at the Cassava Lounge on Boylston Street in Boston. Incidentally a place claiming to serve “tea with balls”. Not sure where to go with that one.

Regardless, there’ll be Wi-Fi available and we can chat about web standards, web design, and well… whatever we’d like really. It’ll be a nice chance to meet fellow Boston-area folks that are into the stuff that we all type about every day.

So we hope that you can make it — feel free to leave a comment here or over at Sidesh0w.com if you’re interested.

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Tack, Sverige

Posted at 8:44 AM

I’m slowly trying to get back to reality after arriving home last night from our trip to Sweden. The time change didn’t affect us all that much going over, but it certainly did coming back. As with any time you’re unplugged for that long, getting back to a routine is painful. I need to dig out of a gigantic pile of email, and have a lot of catching up to do.

The trip itself was phenomenal. Sweden is a beautiful country — far more so than I had even anticipated.

We started the trip by staying three nights in Stockholm, then renting a car, driving across the country on a southern route to Göteborg (I think I can sort of pronounce this now) on the opposite coast, then driving back on a northern route. All along the way, stopping only for a night here and there, while checking out the little towns and cities in between. Then we spent the last two nights back in Stockholm. It sort of felt like we were coming “home” there.

I could go on and on about how much we loved Stockholm — it’s a large city, but clean, with an unhurried pace. And its island stucture of separate regions of the city is fascinating.

One of the highlights was meeting up with Stockholmers, Kate England and Dave Brasgalla, both of Icon Factory. They were both kind enough to show us around a bit and answer our various questions about all things Swedish. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out their stellar work. Would’ve liked to have met more folks along the way, but got too wrapped up in everything.

Some things I liked about Sweden:

• Everyone speaks English. This makes it so easy to travel around the country.
• 11:30pm and the sun is still settting.
• The “head start” you get from a traffic light as it turns red and yellow just before turning green.
• Mariestads beer (I believe the best of those I tried — and there were a lot). Named after a nice little town that we stopped at.
• Glass (ice cream). It’s everywhere. Swedes love ice cream. This is a good thing.
• Saying “tack” (thanks) almost excessively — the only way we ever sounded like locals.
• Hotel Birger Jarl — an amazing Swedish design hotel we capped the trip off with. Highly recommended, with also the best breakfast we had.
• That every house (it seemed) in the country was the same color red.

The entire country was also inspiring from a design perspective — with the the clean lines of the furniture and everyday objects, as well as the sans-serif typography that’s used so often.

As is customary when one goes on a trip to faraway lands, photographic images are captured to immortalize the moment. This trip was no exception, and I’ve posted a 38-image slideshow from the 240 that I took along the way.

It’s time now to get used to the idea of not being on vacation, replying to the mountain of email and working the six-hour time difference out.

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To the Baltic and Back

Posted at 5:53 PM

We’re packed and ready to head out on our overnight flight to Stockholm. We have a one hour stop-over in Iceland — a place I’d love to visit properly someday.

I’ll be happily unplugged and offline for the next nine days. And who knows, when I return, perhaps a certain book will be back from the printers.

So until then, may your markup be lean, and your style unprecendented.

Skoal

Posted at 6:24 PM

In less than two weeks, Kerry and I will be heading to Sweden for a 1-week vacation. Neither of us have been there before, and it’ll surely be the farthest distance either of us have traveled.

I’m getting fired up for the trip — especially that, while we’ll be staying in Stockholm at the beginning and end of the trip, the middle was left open to go where we think will turn out to be interesting.

So, that said — have you been to Sweden? Do you live there? Suggestions for sights, cities, towns and Swedish beers are welcomed.

There of course is the possibility that I’ll run into a few other Cederholms — however legend has it that the name is synonymous with crime throughout Scandinavia. Perhaps I’ll keep it to myself until I find out in person.

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More SXSW Notes, Photos

Posted at 1:26 PM

Austin is nice. Didn’t get to see as much as I’d hoped of the city, and didn’t get any BBQ while I was down there either (does The Salt Lick at the airport count?). What’s nicer is meeting everyone in person — seeing people get excited about the web. It’s inspiring.

Check out Matt Mullenweg’s photos of the event. He snapped some great ones. Also, Dave Shea has been keeping an ongoing update of all things SXSW.

For whatever reason, I didn’t end up taking that many photos during the weekend, but put together a slideshow of a few that came out decent. My favorite is undoubtedly the mirror shot inside a pizza stand somewhere on 6th Street, with (L-R) Josh Williams, D. Keith Robinson, Ethan Marcotte and myself (with camera). The pizza was amazing — although I believe this to be due to the timing of it all. Being extremely hungry makes so-so pizza taste incredible.

If you know of any other photos posted from the conference, feel free to leave in the comments.

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Austin to Boston (by way of Bangor, Maine)

Posted at 11:03 AM

I’ve just spent 10 and a half hours on a plane. One would think I returned from Europe, or South America, or Hawaii or some other far-off exotic land. Nope. Just Texas.

My flight left Austin (only a minor delay) rerouted to Chicago because of the insane snowstorm in the northeast. I figured I’d be spending the night in the windy city — but instead, I had to stay on the same plane, and take off for Boston. We hovered over snowy Boston for about an hour and a half with no word from the captain. And then had to land in Bangor, Maine. Sit on the runway for 2 hours, refuel, then fly back to Boston. What a nightmare. I took a $50 cab ride back to Salem at 2:00am.

What I’m most annoyed at (besides surviving the entire ordeal on a single bag of pretzels) is the lack of information we were given. A simple, Hey, this your captain, we’re circling logan, running out of fuel. We may need to fly up to the far reaches of Maine soon, would’ve been nice.

But I’m not going to let the trip back put a damper on a great weekend.

SXSW Notes

Posted at 4:31 PM

One of the most surreal parts of the trip to SXSW in Austin was that “bookmarks come alive”. Putting a face to so many people I’ve admired and known only online prior to this trip has been pretty amazing. I think it was Dave Shea that said “everyone is pretty much as you imagined”. Fully agreed. And now I need to do a severe update to my XFN-friendly blogroll. I was going to attempt to list everyone I’ve met over the course of the weekend, but it’s impossible to remember everyone.

It feels nice to have my first speaking engagement under my belt — learning much from my fellow panelists. It’s been fun, and hopefully the first of many. Sharing a panel with Doug (who prepared two amazing presentations — be sure to see him speak next time), Dave (who will need to book an extra seat on the way home for all his awards — congrats!) and Christopher (very tall, very nice, very smart) was absolutely the highlight of the trip.

The weather in Austin was somewhat grey and rainy, until Monday when the sun finally came out. But even in the rain, it was far warmer in Texas than Massachusetts.

So tomorrow, it’s back to Boston. More comments to come… Oh, and I missed the ceremony, but SimpleBits won a Bloggie for “Best-Designed Weblog”. Wow, thanks to all who voted!

SXSW 2004

Posted at 11:37 PM

I thought for sure I had mentioned this previously, but I guess I hadn’t. In a little less than a month, I’ll be heading down to Austin, Texas to SXSW. On Monday, March 15th I’ll be sharing a panel, “Hi-Fi Design With CSS” with Christopher Schmitt, Douglas Bowman and Dave Shea. Should be a great time, and I’m honored to be with such great company.

It’ll be my first time in Texas, my first time at SXSW and everyone I meet down there I’ll be meeting for the first time. I’m really looking forward to this part.

So if you’re heading down to the conference, be sure to say hi — I’ll be the one wearing blue (weather permitting).

Southwest Florida

Posted at 1:04 PM

Had a nice visit with family this past week in Southwest Florida. I snapped a few photos of the trip, including manatees (the sea cow), a lizard, a beach, fossilized shark’s teeth, a few flowers and other Floridian items.

My camera is only 2 megapixels, yet in low-light, in can get some pretty neat results. The last three photos were taken from a moving car just around dusk. Didn’t know how they’d come out, but any one of them could make a great album cover… maybe.

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Sort of Unplugged

Posted at 3:35 PM

I’m on vacation this week and have just returned from a few days in Nantucket. Already, I’m missing the island lifestyle. We had an excellent time biking, kayaking, swimming, eating and drinking courtesy of my parents who were staying on the island for the week. I thought nothing of web design while I was there and it’s always good for the mind to take a break.

Now that I’m back though, I’m starting to think about things I’d like to write more about — here and elsewhere. I enjoy providing little tidbits that could potentially be of value to others, but I’d also like to tackle something a bit larger regarding the FC and Inc. redesigns. It can certainly wait till after vacation though…

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