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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.

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.

I’ll be fixing the comments form, any bugs/discrepancies in others browsers and the background image tonight. So until then, enjoy the rest of your weekend.

EDIT: The comment form has been fixed, in most browsers I have tested, I have not tested it in the evil IE6 as of yet, stay tuned for the comedic part of the show. New background image to come.

I forgot to mention in the previous post, that part about user experience and what Andy Budd had made as his presentation at An Event Apart. In his presentation, Andy talked about user experience and how it can be applied to anything. In his case, a trip to a hotel in Mexico.

Well it dawned on me that in life, you want to be treated to an experience like no other when you go out, go on trips, or even be treated to a good experience when you’re shopping or dining in a restaurant. Which brought me to thinking, apply this to the web. Imagine myself, as the user, imagine myself as I would want to be treated when I go out. To the best experience possible.

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I’m going to take the time now to really sit down and write a comprehensive post on my experience at An Event Apart that took place this past Monday and Tuesday in Boston. I had been at the ready, saving what I could in time for the event and barely made it out of there with some pocket change. So be forewarned, don’t be frugal like me with little, and remember to bring your credit card and don’t leave home without it. (Where have I heard that before?)

I started writing this yesterday and have given this more attention again today. I wanted to write a very in-depth post about my experience and maybe “twist an arm” and if someone out there, even if it is one person reads this, goes to an AEA event and then writes back and says it was worth it, then it really was worth taking the extra couple days to write this.

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It was a hell of a three days and I took away a lot from every speaker there. I highly recommend anyone in any field of web to go to an AEA event near you. I feel re-invigorated, re-invented, re-energized, rejuvenated. I have a lot of people to thank and some more sleep to catch up on.