Outsourcing Versus Doing it Myself

If you're reading this site in the first place you probably know that I'm a web designer/developer/whatever. That being said you might also know that I love to take photographs. But the dilemma comes when you combine the two and try to make it meaningful, just humor me …

RSS Validation: a Faux Catch 22

After having a little bit of a wild goose chase with a RSS validation error I thought I would write a brief article to hopefully save other people some time in their greater pursuit of web standards. Or something like that...

Frozen Wood and Mushrooms

To me there was just something really interesting about these mushrooms that had grown on the side of cut firewood. I really like the oranges of the mushrooms against the brown wood and grayish/white ice, I think it's a really neat and organic contrast. Plus the …

Icy Branch

We had a series of large ice and snow storms the other day which meant that Wilmore looked as if it had been taken over by the White Witch. As I was walking back to work I stopped to take some photos of a branch that had been covered by ice.

Call me crazy, as a …

External Reading Upgrade

I've always been a fan of displaying links to external content on my own website. I take note of all the times I found something useful or interesting by looking at what other people are referencing. For the longest time I had a stationary unordered list that displayed …

Orchid

I really like Orchids, I would rank them somewhere in the top of my favorite plants. I just got this one for my wife last week and so it was only a matter of time before I started taking photos of it; I'm actually surprised it took this long. My wife had actually …

Why Do Designers Put Links in Unordered Lists?

I was looking through my Mint referral logs and found that someone arrived at my site by searching for "why do designers put links in unordered lists?" (in all caps, I might add) I thought that it was a valid question and worth a write-up because the underlying topic …