Michael Barrett Coda Review
I’m not too proud to go running down the street after the bandwagon. I saw the news that the rock-n-roll software developers at Panic were releasing a web design tool, called “Coda“, so I checked it out, ran the demo, and bought it an hour or two later. I have spent about 12 hours working [...]
Saucy
The other night I had some fish in danger of going south if I didn’t prepare it soon, so I cracked open the Julia Child Cookbook (circa 1964. Seriously.) and looked up some fish poaching recipes. I modified a recipe for white wine poached white fish where the fish could be trout, or whatever. I [...]
Like a ton of, well, me.
I had a life lesson yesterday in aging. I’m 32 years old. By no means old, but certainly not a spring chicken. I was heading downstairs to take out the recycling (yes. I’m bourgeoisie) and running down the steps, dodging some other tenant’s annoying relatives on the stairs, I ducked into the basement. This involves [...]
Minor Web Design Rant
I came across this item on Daring Fireball, an Illustrator file which mocks up Safari’s browser chrome for use in creating mockups. http://www.oddlaa.com/extras This is a well executed illustration, and probably will help a lot of folks out. However if you’re doing “web design” completely in Photoshop or Illustrator you will encounter at least three [...]
Solid Endorsement
(Courtesy of Tim in the Comments)
ModCloth Coupon
Especially for you: the good, fine, stylish, attractive, and generally better educated blue plate readers; ModCloth is offering a coupon code good for 10% off any order at their site. Enter “blueplate10″ under “Discount Coupons” when you check out. (Don’t say I never got you anything.)
Leftover Chocolate Bunny Mousse
Thanks, Easter Bunny!
Owl-Print Neoprene Laptop Case for the Misses
I earned some points this week by picking up this cute little laptop bag for the Blue Plate Bride-to-be from this cute little interweb boutique ModCloth. It’s the right size for most laptops, and it even came with stickers! The bag is by Mixx, check out more of their stuff. (they don’t sell direct though.)