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As you can guess my journaling has taken a back seat to parenting; but that’s how it should be. In the meantime, I’ve been trying to capture little moment here and there in any medium I can. In that spirit, I present the Ethan Cam! If you don’t follow me on Twitter, and haven’t heard... Read More
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Virtual Movable Type, First Impressions
What Is It? Ok, the first question that nearly everyone asks when they hear about Virtual Movable Type is: “What’s the virtual part all about?” From the readme file: JumpBox virtual appliances are the easiest path to running server based applications. A JumpBox bundles the operating system with the application and all its dependencies into... Read More
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SymbolAssist: More Symbols, Less Work
After seeing the nifty characters TwitterKeys made readily available for posting into your Twitter and IM conversations, I got inspired to dig around the 65,000+ Unicode characters and find some more gems. As I did, I started to realize a couple of things. First, a huge list of symbols wouldn’t be all that helpful. Second,... Read More
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Jessica and I put together a brief list of things that we either didn’t know or didn’t realize about having a newborn baby. It’s not exhaustive (though we are exhausted) and it’s probably not even 100% correct, but hopefully it could be of some use to those with a little one on the way. 1.... Read More
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I’m pulling the plug on IHeartHuckabee.com. It was a lot of fun to put together (as most pet projects are) but I figure since he’s no longer in the running it’s time for it to come down. Anyone interested in either browsing the source code or purchasing the domain name, let me know.
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Well, in case you missed the announcement, we had a son! Ethan Scott Gardner came into the world on Friday, August 22, 2008 at 2:26pm weighing in at a whopping 9 pounds, three ounces! And now he’s almost two weeks old… how time flies. Many thanks to all of our friends for your prayers, thoughts,... Read More
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Consider this a public service announcement to anyone debating about using Movable Type Custom Fields for a site: 1. You cannot create system level asset custom fields. This precludes sharing asset fields across larger blog networks where global templates are used. 2. There are no formatting options for editing Custom Fields. If you’re using Custom... Read More
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Well, this is it, today is the big day. It’s an odd thing to know precisely when your baby is going to be born. Not anything like I had anticipated, because you know. I mean, you deal with strange questions like: how do I dress for a delivery? Normally when things just “happen” you don’t... Read More
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This past Monday I sat down at work not having seen any of the Olympic games over the weekend, so I really wanted to show my national pride and catch up on the excitement. “I’ll just find some Twitter account following the winners.” I found a few Twitterers tweeting Olympic news, but I couldn’t find... Read More
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Tools of the Web Design Trade, Part 2: Building Trust
In the previous article, I said that this article would be about the resources and processes of web design. What I hadn’t really considered was just how involved the process is, so I’ll just address the initial stages of the process in this article, specifically how to build trust with people and ultimately turn them... Read More
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Cuil – The World’s Biggest Waste of Time
Cuil launched today with a plucky Drudge headline: CUIL TAKES ON GOOGLE “Cool,” thought I and gave it a go. It is nothing short of terrible. First off, the site has been ridiculously slow all morning which is terrible way to convery the whole “we’re-taking-on-Google” message. And please don’t use the “but we were featured... Read More
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Tools of the Web Design Trade, Part 1
Unless you count watching The Secret City with Mark Kistler on Saturday mornings as a child, the only formal training I’ve had in graphic design is an Intro to Desktop Publishing class that taught me the keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop and Illustrator. Everything else I’ve learned through observation and synthesis. That’s one of the great... Read More
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Obama in Berlin: One For The History Books
Though I disagree with Obama politically on a number of points, I must admit that his speech in Berlin was powerful, nuanced and dealt so passionately with the issues of our world today that I cannot help but think it will be one for the history books: People of Berlin – people of the world... Read More
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I’ve recently been reading through Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography and have found it both enlightening and humorous. I particularly enjoy his systematic attempts to better himself. One discipline he considered highly valuable was Order, the idea that all things should have their pace and each part of your business should have its time. In an attempt... Read More
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I am running through hills of upstate New York farmland. The dark and pre-dawn skies are filled mostly with quietness and the sound of my feet slapping the road. The evening sounds are there as well, but you learn not to hear them after a while. The air is warm and the ash gray road... Read More
Hello, I’m Jesse.
