I’m loving the ads around town for the Portland Timbers. The ads were created by local advertising powerhouse Wieden + Kennedy and feature Portlanders carrying axes, chainsaws, and otherwise looking like they’re ready to fend off a zombie apocalypse. All the models are “real” people, attractive but not overwhelmingly so (you can imagine actually [...]
I have tried the heralded iPad app “The Daily” and it is lackluster. There are many reviews out that get into deep details: Daring Fireball TidBITs Fonts In Use (for all your kerning needs) By in large these reviews are negative but hopeful. These three linked above are very thorough and give the app far [...]
Update! I have a much more elegant solution to this problem. The Problem Internet Explorer 9 beta supports CSS3 rounded corners with the border-radius property. Internet Explorer 9 beta does not support CSS3 gradients but continues to support the legacy, proprietary, gradient filter for creating gradient backgrounds on html elements. Unfortunately, the two do not [...]
Recent news followed by my pithy remarks. MacBook Air Announced Without Pony. Bloggers Demand Pony. The (ever) Daring Fireball and Paul Boutin at Slate are lamenting the fact that the newly announced Mac sub-notebook doesn’t have some manner of cellular EVDO type of use-anywhere-networking-just-like-the-iPhone support. A quote: Like me, Boutin was hoping for ubiquitous wireless [...]
I’ve created my own WordPress Theme (coinciding nicely with the 2.3.2 upgrade). When I kissed RapidWeaver goodbye, and re-familiarized myself with WordPress, I didn’t want to spend time customizing a web site design…I just wanted to fix the problem of me not posting very often. I discovered the Ideal Website theme – which is pretty [...]
I’ve been procrastinating updating my site for a while: noodling with layout ideas; thinking about whether I should rework abouthalf.com to be simply a portfolio site (since most of my blogging takes place on Blueplate Bachelor nowadays anyway) or setting up a sub-domain for my professional activities; and how to handle putting up snapshots and [...]
So I made the switch-a-roo and dumped MS Office of my system (safely archived on the original install CDs). Above you see a sliver of the Terminal, Activity Monitor (‘cuz it’s neat), Coda, Numbers, Pages, and NeoOffice. NeoOffice is there to do “heavy lifting” in case I run across some Office-y type function I can [...]
The Steve-note is online at Apple’s web site. If you care about such things, you’ve already watched it. If you don’t, it is a great opportunity to see the best salesman of our time in action. http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/s83522y/event/index.html?internal=g4h5jl83a You’ve heard the old phrase “He could sell [stereotype] to [ethnicity]“. Well he could. In all seriousness, if [...]
I came across this interesting blog post about uninstalling MS Word and never ever using it again. http://stevenpoole.net/blog/goodbye-cruel-word/ It’s a nice read, though it’s basically a love letter to the new brand of hipster full screen anti-word processors like Writeroom and Scrivner. (These products seem nice for someone who a.) gets to use a Mac [...]
InDesign is Adobe’s prepress, page layout application. It’s intended for the design and production of magazines, books, and other print pieces. It includes some XML support, so it’s forward looking to the time when much of our documents will be data driven (instead of design once, print many, design again print again) Many of the [...]
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