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Free Dribbble Invite

Posted in: Design, FileMaker, WWW ♦ Thursday, February 2nd, 2012, 8:25 pm ♦ 1 Comment

So I've been hammering away at the next version of InBloom and have a number of loose-ends to tie up.  But I need help finalizing a toolbar design and am reaching to the web: give your constructive feedback here (or on Dribbble [...]

The Modern Day Web: The 90-9-1 Rule

Posted in: Design, WWW ♦ Tuesday, July 5th, 2011, 9:59 am ♦ No Comments

In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.
Some great ideas by the Nielsen Group on [...]

Non sequitur: Tips on fondant, cakes, and baking

Posted in: General, WWW ♦ Wednesday, June 29th, 2011, 9:10 am ♦ 2 Comments

So there is no real connection between web design and technology to the alchemy and work involved in baking cakes, but there is the overwhelming power of Google and the ability to scour for information on topics you wouldn't normally think about. [...]

Catching a connecting flight… literally

Posted in: Entertainment, WWW ♦ Monday, September 27th, 2010, 8:32 pm ♦ No Comments

This is kinda crazy: "A skydiver has pulled off an astonishing stunt by climbing out of a glider's cockpit, crawling along the wing and then somersaulting underneath and stepping onto the wing of a second glider flying below." [...]

“Go home IE6, you always break our coolest toys”

Posted in: Design, General, WWW ♦ Thursday, August 27th, 2009, 2:55 pm ♦ No Comments

Fan... f**king... tastic [...]

A review of WordPress Theme WPRemix3…

Posted in: Blogging, Design, General, Wordpress, WWW ♦ Saturday, August 22nd, 2009, 8:59 am ♦ 1 Comment

So after spending many hours re-writing and developing InBloom, I relaunched the site using Wordpress as a CMS.  I also wanted to save myself the headache and purchase an out-of-the-box / "premium" theme for Wordpress to save myself the time of developing a new theme from scratch.  I looked at var [...]

Watch this castle transform before your eyes

Posted in: Design, Entertainment, General, WWW ♦ Friday, July 10th, 2009, 12:51 pm ♦ No Comments

Such a simple concept master beautifully, seriously... http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/transforming-castles-facade-wobbly-wavy-light-spectacle [...]

The most interesting site ever…

Posted in: General, WWW ♦ Tuesday, May 12th, 2009, 12:25 pm ♦ No Comments

is AcademicEarth.org Whatever possessed these great academies of learning to pass on the gift of knowledge is something to treasure as this site is absolutely mindblowing to me.  If you feel inteleectually starved some days and want to work the muscle that is your brain.  Log on, you won't regr [...]

Where The Wild Things Are

Posted in: General, WWW ♦ Thursday, April 30th, 2009, 7:11 am ♦ No Comments

I can't remember any book from my childhood more than [...]

Secret Weapon Notes: Volume 8

Posted in: Design, FileMaker, General, WWW ♦ Monday, June 19th, 2006, 2:47 pm ♦ No Comments

So here's the eighth volume of Secret Weapon Notes, and I'm reaching out to you readers as to your thoughts on such posts. Are they worthwhile for you? I love them in that they nicely consolidate a diverse and random set of links into a nice digest format and half the time I use them as my own ver [...]