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I finally got around to designing up a new background. I think I like it better than the last one (before the overwrite of the theme) and a fewmodest style changes to compensate for the latest background change. I may do another one for fall, I don’t know, but I am kind of sticking partial to this one. I took a week and it came out the way I wanted it to, but comments and criticism is most definitely welcome.

I know that the background may not display properly in an iPhone. I’m going back and re-reading a couple articles that were graciously suggested to be by a friend. I’ll hopefully have that issue under control. The background is fairly big, I needed to maintain the look, so it wasn’t pixelated, load times may vary. Google Gears helps out a lot, but I’m looking into optimizing it a bit more.

If you’re on anything bigger than a 1280×900 monitor, you’ll see the background-color. I don’t, didn’t and don’t plan to design for anything larger than 1280×1024.

Another anti-spam plugin has been installed and it works. I use it on my blog and I don’t get anything I don’t want as far as comment spam goes. What I do not see, won’t kill me.

Ethan has an awesome video over at URN, and it cracked me right up. Certainly made my day when I saw it. I suggest it if you want, or need a good chuckle.

YouTube is having a major malfunction of some sort. Yesterday, after putting a serach query in, it redirected to a Dell banner ad. No wonder I hate Dell. Now today, it just does not want to load the site at all. I am wondering if it is me or if it is the fact that perhaps YouTube became too big for the interweb’s britches? Or my connection sucks. I am thinking the latter.

I’m doubting the decision to use both Spaz and/or Twhirl as Twitter/Friendfeed desktop clients, they’re both good, but I want something a bit slicker, so I am going to give Snitter a try. being a avid reader of Jonathan Snook for what seems an eternity (a few years now), I don’t question the product because of the name behind it. As I type this entry out, I fired it right up and it works smooth… A donation will be made soon.

and… after going through the interface, I have chosen my bread and butter desktop Twitter client… muah!

As for this site… it is a matter of getting work up as soon as I complete the projects I am doing to add to the Work page. Much more to follow, stay tuned.

Started fiddling around with some HTML 5 basics, will get to ome more soon. Check out if the browser you use supports HTML 5 (which I believe most of them already have/do).

http://six03.com/qa/html5.html

No, it does not validate if you must know and if you’re a validating fool, I’m not as much anymore. There are header tags in the code which are throwing off the validator.

I’ll be shooting to get to these upcoming conferences;

2008

Webmaster Jam Session: http://2008.webjamsession.com/

Web Design World: http://webdesignworld.com/

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2009

@media2009: http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia/

dconstruct2009: http://dconstruct.org/ - Down at the time of this writing.

AEA2009 Boston: http://aneventapart.com - TBD/TBA

Site is upgraded and I am liking the newest features of 2.6 Highly recommended to anyone to upgrade now!

http://wordpress.org

and as luck would have it, I overwrote the default theme I had been working on, hence the change in the layout. This is why you should not work on anything web related when you have had no sleep and are really, very tired.

At some point, I hope to post more here, I’ve just been so very busy with life and other projects/adventures. I do have a new background I am working on and one that will work (hopefully) on the iPhone for the iPhone users that have come to the site. Thanks to Jeffrey Zeldman for pointing me in the right direction to fix the problem. I also have been working on a template I am going to offer for free and a CSS framework.

I’ll also be travelling soon for about a couple weeks, so posting will be sparse and I will probably be somewhere without a good internet connection or even non-existant. Pictures to follow, until then… ciao!

Skills page updated and added back to the navigation. I am looking for full-time employment with a web firm/studio/agency. Anywhere in the United States. please feel free to use the contact form if what you see here catches your eye.