A Note About the Site

Last night I switched the architectural scheme of URLs for this website. This is a quick note about how that change impacts links.

Is IE8 a Step Backwards?

I made a joke about this, but I had no idea I was just agreeing with the Windows Updater.

The Sun Through the Clouds

I took this photo at about 5:30pm while sitting in a parking lot. I only used Photoshop for cropping and resizing, not for retouching or correction.

Photo Details

Aperture: f/36.0

Focal Length: 90mm

Creating a Portal [2]

If you've been wondering if I have in fact fallen off the face of the planet somewhere between January and now, it would have been a good guess. But the real answer is that we were in full production mode at Asbury Theological Seminary and have finally launched our …

Cicada

Lately we have been infested with Cicadas and so I thought it was fitting to take a photo of it since they're only around once in a long while. This was taken on our back porch just after the infestation started.

Photo Details

Aperture: f/5.6

ISO: 400

Focal Length: 135mm

Web Apps - Useful Outside the Box

With all the web applications out there, I say that their strength isn't in what an app is supposed to do but also in what you can make it do with a little ingenuity and user necessity.

It's All About Perspective

Sometimes the best way to present your content is to get rid of it, well, the weakest of your content anyway. I did that recently...

When Aggregating, Get a Human

Recently some information aggregators and I haven't been getting along. In this article I talk about being confused with others on the web and how not to manage information on the web.

Umm... Your CSS is Gone. [4]

If you're reading this from the website, and maybe even if you're reading it from a RSS feed reader... And assuming it's April 9, 2008, you might be wondering what happened to the styling of my website.

Site Re-Redesign [2]

I love a good joke, maybe even more than "the next guy," but I think there was just a general lack of enthusiasm today about April fools day to begin with.

Redesign Number Four

As you may have noticed I finally launched the redesign of the site. I had been sitting on this one for what seems like ages, and I knew that I just had to launch it. So, as expected, here's the write-up!

Purple Wisteria

While visiting my wife's family I took some photos of a purple wisteria plant in their front yard. It was really nice to actually see plant life again, and the 70 or so degree weather was definitely a nice change. I spoke with my mom in Michigan the same day and …

Cilantro Sprouts

My wife planted some Cilantro a week or two ago and it has sprouted. I saw it sitting on the window ledge and took a few shots of it.

Photo Details

Shutter: 1/250

Aperture: F5.6

Focal Length: 135mm

ISO: 640

Textpattern and Paypal Integration

After talking with my friend Kaleb I have determined that I have a slightly different outlook on the way my site should integrate with PayPal than most other people. I don't want PayPal to be connected all the time on every article, so here is my solution, short, …

Taking Away Excuses

So having heard some rumors I decided to take a look at the new MacBook Pro computers to see what the specs are. Obviously it's well beyond my 12" Powerbook that still works well. My reason for looking is this; I have two PC desktops that are lacking a few parts in …

Arizona Cactus

This was definitely not something I expected to see at work in Kentucky. I thought the composition and texture were interesting, and also appropriate with the recent heat wave.

Photo Details

Shutter: 1/160

Aperture: F5.6

Focal Length: 135mm

ISO: 400

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 …