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I moved most of the large items this weekend. I still have a few odds and ends (less than one car-full) left at the house. One more trip, and then one trip to wash the carpets, and I should be fully vacated from the old location, and fully “in” the new. Of [...]

My thought for the day is this:
Everyone should keep usability in mind while performing their job. While creating something (especially like a website), some aspects end up being unrelated—graphic design to programmers, implementation details to designers, etc—however usability should be an part of every aspect of the creation process. There are an unending [...]

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Red Sox game all night on my computer. When I saw David Ortiz up in the 9th with a man on, and down by 1 run, I went running into the living room and turned on the TV. He fouled off one pitch, and then, just in [...]

I’ve been working on the same project for about 4 weeks now. 4 weeks straight. It’s the re-design of certain parts of a big site using CSS. Sounds like nothing, but the constraints of the re-design are that it must function almost exactly like the old. Therein lies the difficulty.
It is [...]

If there is one thing that I’m a sucker for, it’s cheat sheets. I love letting my eyes fall upon a single page and navigate right to what I’m looking for. It takes the whole “open book, locate index, look up word, find page, find where on page” process out and beats it [...]

So I have been working on a small piece of navigation at work. Tabs, to be exact. Multiple items, but no more than 5 at a time. Variable length titles (including some rather long). As it is a list of links, of course, I wanted to use an unordered list. [...]

…all this traffic.
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Getting away from all this traffic and signing the lease to my new place today. Woo hoo! Or at least I think woo hoo.
Not going to start moving in yet, because I have a month overlap to do that.
Slightly scared, however, that I am looking forward to going back there [...]

So I tweaked the CSS and arrived at this. I kinda like it. It reminds me of a pair of eighties boating shorts, not quite sure why. It isn’t the most pleasing design, but that is intentional. Clean wasn’t the goal, I was aiming for something more… me. Well, enough me as [...]