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Your Life, Six Words: A Contest
Inspired by Hemmingway’s powerful six-word short story (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) and SmithMag’s Six Word Memoirs, I ran a contest to see who could give me the most original and clever six-word autobiography. The story was limited to six words, but the topics were all over the place. Some people gave a strictly... Read More
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Out And About, With Illustrations
Haven’t done a very good job at keeping everyone up to speed with our goings-on, so I thought I’d write up a little something and show off some of my more recent shutter-fication. We had to leave early Saturday morning to make it up in time for Sarah’s baby shower. (She’s due any day now.)... Read More
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Will Six Apart’s New Design Services Eat My Business Alive?
Well, the news is out. Six Apart made several big announcements tonight: They’ve acquired Apperceptive which will become Six Apart, New York. They’ve launched Six Apart Media, a massive blog-centric ad network. They’ve launched Six Apart Services, a branch of Six Apart officially dedicated to design, development and implementation of their platforms for customers. What... Read More
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Key Elements in the Process of Counseling
This weekend, my wife and I and several others from our church have been enjoying sessions at the National Association of Nouthetic Counseling’s Counseling and Discipleship Training conference. There have been a lot of practical advice given for those just getting started with biblical counseling. Here’s a brief summary of our sessions from last night... Read More
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Logo Design Love, an online publication dedicated to logo design and analysis, just awarded the Simply Recipes logo that we helped create fourth place in their Logo Design Love awards. The purpose of the contest, which featured several distinguished judges, was to uncover the most effective blog logos amongst todays popular blogs. The judges shared... Read More
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Scream Tracker Made Me Love Electronica
I know you’re not supposed to start blog posts with qualifications, but I honestly don’t know how to weave this all together. So, stream of consciousness is my medium of choice tonight. Beware. Back in the early nineties, while everyone else was sporting New Kids on the Block slap bracelets, I was holed up in... Read More
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To be fair, I must admit I learned a lot from my dad about perspective and horizon in my artwork. And heaven knows I’d never be able to paint an evergreen without the help of Bob Ross. But it was Mark Kistler and his show on PBS that most influenced my drawing. You remember, the... Read More
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Happy First Day of April To You
You all know what that means… For those of you that missed out, I got some people all in a huff when I played boy-who-cried-“Hackers!”. (I think Anil’s post probably applies in this situation.) But I wish to argue that it was, rather, an exercise in the beauty and power of CSS. With a simple... Read More
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Muxtape Smart Playlist for iTunes
What, you haven’t heard of Muxtape? Where have you been the last day or two? You don’t already have a playlist?! And you call yourself web savvy. Not to worry. While the Twitterverse is taking bets on how long before Muxtape gets pulled down by the RIAA, here’s a neat little tip that helps you... Read More
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If you enjoy the feeling you get when you look at my website, and you’re a Colloquy user, you’re in luck! As part of my “let’s skin applications” kick, I’ve created Haas, a minimalist, Helvetica-based design for Colloquy. Plenty of variants to make you happy. Default Light Skin Dark Variant Download Haas for Colloquy (.zip/8k,... Read More
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Lovable Type: Creating A Theme For Colloquy IRC
I waste a good deal of my day arguing about colonialism and pronunciation in the #movabletype-talk IRC channel. And when you spend a good deal of time using a piece of software, you want it to fit the way you work. I downloaded Colloquy, an IRC client for OS X, a while back, but was... Read More
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Rorschach no more, we’ve got ourselves a real, live baby! The first ultrasound didn’t really affect me that much (Oh, that blob is mine? Neat-o.), but this one just about floored me (Its moving!!!). Our baby kept trying to put its fingers in its mouth and finally got hold of the thumb. I just love... Read More
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All this talk of creating a minimalist workspace has me thinking. Is it really possible? Here’s a list of things currently on my desk. Help me decide which things to toss/relocate: An empty orange juice glass Several new Plasticmind Design business cards Several old Plasticmind Design business cards Greg Hoy’s business card A jar of... Read More
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Migrating CustomFields to Movable Type Professional 4.1
Installing CustomFields Upgrade Assistant If you’re upgrading an MT 4.0 install that was using Arvind’s CustomFields plugin to MTP 4.1 which has CustomFields built in, the first thing you need to know is that MTP will not automatically import your old CustomFields data. You need to install the CustomFields Upgrade Assistant plugin to do the... Read More
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When O’Reilly cancelled ETel 2008, Lee Dryburgh fought hard to keep the community of emergent communications activists alive by organizing eComm2008. The conference was a rethink of the trillion dollar communications industry, a challenge to industry leaders who have largely remained stagnant. Because of ETel’s last minute cancelation, Lee needed an tremendous amount of design... Read More
Hello, I’m Jesse.
