Secret Weapon Labs

There are enough blogs, reviews, newspaper articles, press releases, and magazine clippings about the iPhone to satiate any fanatic, but there still is something to be said and Lev Grossman of Time Magazine puts it well:
“… every moment of user interaction has been quietly stage-managed and orchestrated”
And he goes on with flowery language (that is [...]

I’ve never forgotten the statement that it’s the artist that makes the art and not the brush. It’s a pretty simple principle, yet we seem to consistently reinvent the wheel with every kind of technology applicable: the phone to into the cellphone, software into bloatware, index cards into multirelational multiuser databases. So the [...]

Tim Dietrich over at FileMaker Addict has breathed new life into the blog by revising the format to include all things pertinent to FileMaker developers.  It’s great as Tim is a saavy developer who looks at things a little differently in FM and such things usually show in the way he discusses and ruminates on [...]

So a couple of days back, I got engaged to a wonderful and beautiful woman on a rooftop overlooking New York City at sunset. It was wonderfully romantic and a mouthful to even type, though it seems I write it bluntly. Regardless, there’s no way I’d pay $80 for a web template for [...]

Finally, it’s nice to see some progressive thinking coming out of FileMaker Inc. Yesterday, on May 1st, FM launched the FileMaker Technet Network which appears to be a scaled back, and broader-appeal version of the FileMaker Solutions Alliance. It’s refreshing as the FSA required a little more legwork to apply to and pass [...]

Note Step 23.
from: new york to: london via Google Maps

I can’t stand the fact that people like John Dvorak consider themselves journalists by publishing the most contrarian view against a certain group of people. Call it trolling, call it being a moron, call it being Idiot Of The Week (a la John Gruber), it has to be one of the consistently most annoying [...]

This has to be one of the coolest desktops I’ve ever seen…
Flickr Photo Download: Sketches… #030 [ Ivory Spirit ]

I recently returned from an ABSOLUTELY AMAZING snowboard trip in the Rockies of Colarado. Upon preparation, I realized I wanted to bring my digital SLR on the slopes without putting it at full risk - yes, I fall on my arse a lot. A number of solutions crossed my mind, but when I [...]

Some things that have come across my eyes these past few weeks:

“I want my vet bills and I want some compensation for what they did to my kids _ and for the company’s neglect,” said Majerczyk, a medical assistant in a dermatology office. — Via Banterist.com
Among the more counterintuitive characteristics of art and design [...]