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I have a confession to make. I hate loud, growling motorcycles. No, no. I don’t think you understand; I’m not saying that I think they’re tacky or silly or just not my style. I’m saying that when those bulky Harley-Davidson motorcycles gurgle by my house at midnight with their obscene roar, rattling every window pane... Read More
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Show me the man that says life is boring, and I’ll throw him in a vat of sugar-free pudding with Bill Cosby. How many silly, ridiculous things happen in life that get overlooked? Well, by golly, I’m going to write some of them down, so when I’m old, crochety, and can’t find my teeth, my... Read More
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Ten Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to MT 4 Instead of WP 2.3
(Thanks for the info, Mr. Dogood.) 1. All of WP 2.3’s new features have been in MT for years. Tags are the biggest “new” feature in WP 2.3, and there’s still no way to edit, manage, or delete them. MT was one of the first blogging tools to support the Atom API, which is important... Read More
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Updates from the Wandering Dullard
Bah. I should have written this a week ago. That’s what I get for thinking I’d have time for pleasantries after almost a week away from the office. whip cracks Let’s pretend it’s last Sunday night and I’m sitting at the San Francisco airport waiting for my plane. Ugh. That’s so last week. Here goes... Read More
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The Social Graph in Plain Language
David Recordon over at Six Apart just published an article called We Are Opening The Social Graph. It explains the company’s goal of using OpenID and some other non-proprietary technologies to help make your “social graph” an open platform. Have I lost you? Let’s start again. Let’s talk about how annoying it is to have... Read More
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Using .htaccess Voodoo For Underscore and Dash Woes
Here’s a little tip for people who have recently switched to dashes (-) from underscores (_) as word separators and wish all those old inbound links could still work. Try this in your .htaccess file: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_(.*).html$ http://example.com/$1-$2-$3-$4-$5-$6.html [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_(.*).html$ http://example.com/$1-$2-$3-$4-$5.html [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_(.*).html$ http://example.com/$1-$2-$3-$4.html [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^([^_]*)_([^_]*)_(.*)... Read More
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Rockstars, Coyotes and Fig Pizza
My tour of California has been fast and furious. Thursday morning, I walked from the hostel near Union Square to Van Ness where I hopped a bus up to the north end of town where Arvind was staying with his parents (they are dear people!). Elise picked us both up there and we all made... Read More
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Line Cutters, Top Bunks and a Lesbian
Well, my trip to San Francisco has already proved mighty interesting. First, there was the guy who cut in front of a line of about 400 people at Philadelphia International waiting to get through security. He told the lady in front of me that he had a job interview and that his flight left in... Read More
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Redesign, Part 2: Stylesheet Philosophy
I am not a developer.
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In my mailbox today I found a slightly crumpled paper with the picture of a tabby cat on it: PLEASE KEEP AN [clipart of an eye] OPEN FOR MY LITTLE LOST CAT. HIS NAME IS “SEVEN” AND HE IS ONLY ONE YEAR OLD! IF FOUND OR SITED PLEASE CALL. My thoughts went immediately back to... Read More
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Creative Ways To Use Subcategories
Create a “Breadcrumb” Trail In Movable Type Using Subcategories Quandary: Someone clicks on a subcategory archive, but it looks just like every other category page. How can we give the user a better sense of context for the subcategory pages? Solution: Breadcrumbs! You know, they look like: Category » Subcategory , with links that let... Read More
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Redesigning a website is like having a baby. It’s exhilarating and fun when you’re in the planning stages; but when it comes right down to it, it takes a lot of hard work and sleepless nights to see it through to completion and do it right. I couldn’t think of a better way to start... Read More
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Finally. Thank you all for patience, and welcome to the new Plasticmind Journal. Now, for those of you long time readers of my “blog”, let me clarify what just happened here. Plasticmind: Food for Thought just became plasticmind.com. And the thing that lives over at plasticmind.com is now my tech blog. See, I did this... Read More
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Every great book has some profound beginning. Though nothing close to profound, here’s mine: Design lives all around us and impacts in ways that are sometimes unnoticeable while at other times impossible to miss. People pay me to catch the subtleties and make them work in ways that are impossible to miss. I love that.... Read More
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Still Here With Every Intention…
For whatever reason, I can’t seem to get my new site design finished. I’ve been pulling all-nighter after all-nighter and still can’t seem to fit it in. It’s just that I miss blogging! Anyhow, came across this video and thought it was so unique I had to break radio silence. One take, done completely in... Read More
Hello, I’m Jesse.
