So you're quoting a tweet? Please don't do it with a screenshot.
I’ve seen a lot of people quoting tweets in their blogs by simply including a screenshot of the posted page from Twitter. That’s just wrong for so many reasons.
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The near-impossible user registration of Copyright.gov
Today I attempted to register an account with Copyright.gov. I’m thinking the form is really a near-impossible code that no one has been able to break and there’s a job offer on the other side of it for the secret service to the first person that can crack it.
Or maybe they just don’t know what user experience design is. Yeah, that’s probably it.
Let it be known that I'm a Flash hater (for the most part)
Smashing Magazine just put up an article I wrote – “The gradual disappearance of Flash websites”, an insight into why I believe it makes little sense to still be using Flash on websites.
It couldn't be spam (I'm about to be rich)
Gmail has done me right for years, and I can’t remember the last time that I received any spam. I have relinquished all control of what’s a hoax and what’s not to Google’s discretion. Since Google has deemed this correspondence worthy enough to make it’s way to my inbox, I’m going to consider this a legit request.
Designing in code, twenty-ten, and writing again (in no particular order)
I managed to “realign” the design and structure of this site. For this iteration, I made it a point not to open an image editing program and instead prototyped and built it strictly with code. I greatly enjoyed doing it this way and I think it helped keep the design simple.
The never ending conversation with my two year old daughter.
It usually only takes two times through before I give up.
The commute in photos (and some general commentary on photography)
Never before have there been more people with a camera in their hands at all times without looking like a tourist, with the ability to share with the world in an instant.
I take photos to recall my past and to remember the beauty of the mundane.
10 years ago - September 1999
I was single, didn’t have any kids, worked a really mundane job and lived on cigarettes, pepsi, and coffee. I barely remember much of it.
Show us your desktop - Android edition
I’ve become a bit of a phone geek. We’ll, that’s really an understatement. I’m a huge phone geek – I know more about my G1 than I do my laptop. Thanks to AndroidAndMe’s desktop screenshot contest, I thought I’d share mine.
Titanium takes great strides forward
The new Titanium beta is going to give Adobe Air a run for their money, allowing iPhone and Android app development to be done using HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
Who's Already Using HTML5? Only the Cool Designers!
I just happened across a new ‘showcase’ website of sites using HTML5, go check it out.
My car insurance company knows way too much.
They just sent me a little wireless adapter to plug into my car computer and it uploads information about the way I drive directly to them. We’ll see how quickly I get canceled.
Google Voice's Speech-To-Text is Really Speech-to-Garble
Google Voice is an amazing great service, but the speech-to-text feature is almost completely useless so far. Hopefully that will change.
Code Overhaul (How and Why I Started Using HTML 5)
I think 2009 is going to be the year of HTML 5. I took the plunge and others are doing the same. If we, as developers and designers, don’t start using it and working with it on a regular basis, we’ll never be able to give the needed feedback before the final draft is released. Here’s a little advice on getting started and my thoughts on the state of its development…
Don't Wing a Major Update To Your Website
Don’t do what I did – I winged my site overhaul by creating a couple pages, forgetting to account for all the ranges of templates I have. When I flipped the switch with the new code I scrambled for an hour or two trying to correct my oversight…
Looking Back at 2008
The economy crashed, George Bush had shoes thrown at him, and we elected a new president. My wife and I bought a house, My daughter celebrated her 1st birthday, and my son was born healthy and hungry.
To celebrate all the work I’ve done on this site in the last year, here are 8 of my favorite posts of ’08.
Relieving inspiration overload
If you been following my feed for the last few days you would have noticed that I’ve been pushing a lot of new art. I plan to actually do this every day until Christmas, so hopefully you’ll enjoy looking at them…
Google knows when I've been sleeping and knows when I'm awake.
Google knows I’ve been sleeping because they keep trends on everything about my feeds. Like what day of the week I read the most, how many I read in a month and, to my point, what time of day I do most of the reading. It makes me wonder how I can actually skim through that many items during a day…
The Inkscape Book (A Small Contribution to the Community)
Inkscape rocks! And now thanks to Floss Manuals and many contributors from the open source community, you can get your hands on a physical copy of the new Inkscape Book.
The Importance of Our Public Domain (and Why I'm Giving Away Some of My Work)
It’s important to our culture that we stop putting such crazy restrictions of copyright on works of art. To join the cause, I’m releasing a number of my portfolio pieces under the creative commons license…
Jersey cops drive nice cars (and are way too busy showing them off)
I went out with the family on Black Friday to get Christmas deals, yada yada yada, my wife let a cop have it for not looking where he was going. Stupid cadillac driving cops…
29 Thanksgivings
This year was my 29th Thanksgiving and my first in a while without Tofurkey. I’ll share a couple highlights. I also just had my 30th birthday…Not sure what that means…
Reappearance?
So I’ve just taken the last month to be on hiatus from my regular routine so I could help take care of the new boy. It was a lot of fun and now it’s time to get back to work.
Where have I been and what have I been doing, you ask? Well…
Lennix Bradley
My wife just gave birth to my second kid on the first of October.
He’s a cool little mellow guy…
Strange Top Search Queries
Tons of traffic come in to this site everyday through search engines. Lots of that traffic is coming to the right place and others are a long way off from where they should be. So here’s a list of some of the google search terms that I rank high for (top 10 in results). Some are funny, while others are kind of impressive…
Shameless Self Promotion
A few weeks back, after finally being happy with how this site was coming together, I decided it was time to spread the word and get visitors coming in. It was time to start some shameless self promotion. I had a plan and learned a good bit…
Woopra - not just visitor analytics, visitor interaction!
Woopra, a new website analytics tool on the scene (just recently put into open beta), is bound to change the way you think about your website visitors. It brings a face to each of your visitors so you can know more about them and how they actually use your website. They’re not just a number but someone you can learn from…
New Window Script Redux
I wrote a tutorial a little while back on writing a script that forces new windows on PDF and external links without the addition of anything extra into the xHTML. Turns out, to no surprise, that IE 6 does something strange with the image that indicates the new window. Here’s what it does and how I fixed my script…
Magnolia - How social bookmarking should be - social!
Delicious sucks and you know it. Now Magnolia, they know what’s up when it comes to social bookmarking – they’ve built a feature rich application that just feels right. Compared to Delicious I wonder what the hell I was doing using them for so long. Hum. It’s time we all switched…
My Affinity for Color 2
Continuing with my push to give away color swatches for your use – I’ve pulled together a handful more that I’ve put together since my last post on color. Enjoy, and let me know if you put them to good use…
Pained by Invalid Code
I am a stickler for HTML/CSS validation when I build web pages – to the point that I’d be called militant in every respect. Why do some people choose to use invalid code while others painstakingly make sure each line of their code is well formed? He’s why people don’t and why they should…
My Mission - Blogging Resolutions
Writing my new years resolutions kept me thinking this year. I’ve done the same for what I want to accomplish on this blog – to help me keep focused for what I want to share…
Institutions vs. Collaboration in Software Development
Institutional development of software can’t compare to the collaborative model of open source development. Companies hire a range of employees to contribute much of their time to the development of a product. Open source software allows a single individual the ability to contribute as little or as much as they would like/can offer for furthering the product…
My Affinity for Color
Color and I have a bit of a love hate relationship. I tend to design somewhat ‘darkly’ yet I find really strong and strange colors to be incredibly powerful when used correctly. One of my favorite tools is Adobe’s Kuler – just wish I knew of an open source desktop equivalent. For you’re enjoyment, I’m giving away some recent palettes.
Good Design Can Come from Open Source Software
Being a web designer, most people assume that I have an arsenal of software in my toolkit that includes Adobe Photoshop, Illustratior and Dreamweaver and that I probably work on a Mac. We’ll, most people think I’m crazy and weird when I first tell them that I much prefer open source software and my real arsenal includes The GIMP, Inkscape and Eclipse/Aptana. Oh and I work in Linux. Here are some of my favorite tools and why I’m such and advocate of Open Source…
Sorry WordPress, You Just Lost Your Battle to TextPattern
Even though I think WordPress is great, seeing how Textpattern worked so well out of the box and the ability it gave me to customize it so quickly and cut down on the time it takes me to write posts – I am officially becoming their new spokesperson…
Dissecting Code
I enjoy seeing how website designers and developers make their websites and I spend a lot of time looking at the code behind the site, more so than I read their articles (sometimes)…
HP Hating
I don’t like HP…
Rethinking Brand Strategy
The definition of Brand is changing online. We are continuing to adopt technologies that strip company communications of their look and feel. Feeds are taking over browsing and email applications are blocking designs – stripping out what is to be considered the visual aspect of a brand, leaving only what we have to say in it’s place…
Learn JavaScript - DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith
Ages ago I attempted to learn JavaScript to no avail. I never really found any great use for it – and what it was being used for was pretty trivial and lame. That was until I read Jeremy Keith’s book…
Twitter! We Should All be Twits
When Twitter first hit the scene a couple years back, I wasn’t really sold on it. I thought it was a little self-centered and other than the instant social text messaging, I didn’t really see any benefit to it. How was I going to get my friends to jump on it and start using it as a way to communicate? So why have I changed my mind on it, and why today am I advocating it’s use?…
U.S. Handgun Law
I don’t usually go off topic, but I wanted to voice my opinion about the “individual right to bear arms” that is currently being debated in the Supreme Court this week…
Internet Explorer and Web Standards?
It’s almost an oxymoron. Here are my two cents on the fact that IE has finally adopted web standards…
Wordpress as a Content Management System
I’ve made many websites for myself and clients over the years, but today was the first time that I’ve ever implemented a content management system into a client site. How did I accomplish it? WordPress! Why?…
The Sixty-four Ounce Coffee
I was driving into work and heard a commercial for some sort of discount breakfast at a gas station and the last couple words were “prices and participation may vary not available with 64 ounce coffees”…
A Pink Computer
My wife needs a computer – I thought I had found a few good ones to show her and then she threw me a curve ball… It had to be pink! What?…
Busy as Always
I have a few drafts of some blogs to publish and a few great ideas ready to start working on…but I’ve been really busy doing freelance work for the last few weeks…
2008 Resolutions
So I actually thought about what I want to do in two thousand and eight. Here are my EIGHT new years resolutions…
Is it a Holiday?
Here it is, it’s pretty much the holidays. People are off of work doing shopping and preparing for visits with they’re families…
Back to Blogging, What’s to Come of it?
I’ve been blogging on and off for the last few years, but about 8 months ago I gave up on it completely. After feeling a bit inspired, I’m back on the bandwagon. (or is it off the bandwagon?)…
Feeds - Stop Calling them RSS!
I believe that the slow adoption of the technology comes only from the use of the acronym RSS in the first place and I honestly prefer a more semantic approach. Lets all please stop referring to XML/RSS/Atom feeds as they are and simply call them FEEDS…
Busy Random Words
I’ve been keeping myself too busy, here are some random things…
CSS Naked Day
Yes again tomorrow is get naked day for the web design community and I’m participating…
Soon to be a father - my best work yet.
I’m soon to be a proud father, September will bring a new little Cooper into this world…
OpenID and the Future of Virtual Communities
OpenID is an interesting idea that has come about in recent years. Here’s a quick overview to what it currently does and how it could change the future of our virtual communities…
Inspiration from the Surround
I’m sitting at a glass topped oak desk in a overly small bedroom on the second floor of the Algonquin Hotel on 44th in Manhattan. The lamp next to me flickers a bit, the heat finally came on a few minutes ago, and I can hear every word said in the hallways…
In-house Designers vs. Studios
There are three major benefits that a company gains when bringing in full time designers, and has happened in my organization…
HTML 5 - Have Your Say and Contribute
Well, even though I talk about how HTML should be chucked out the window, I really believe that it just needs a major overhaul…
When will HTML end?
Over the next couple years, we’ll continue to adopt standards online that will wipe HTML 4 and xHTML off the map. It will live on in XSL but will evolve drastically as more sites start to implement it…
The Poet Silent
Poetic Reflections on life.
It's New Now Portfolios
I’m only happy with my work for short periods of time. When I first put something together, I’ll love it for a few days and then it’s old to me. I’m sure any artist, writer, designer or musician feels the same way, it’s our drive…
The Socialization of Misconjoined Networks
In the near future, our socialization through the web will move away from inside the browser, to being an extension of it, just as news has gone from inside of the browser to being pulled into aggregators…
Moving Out of the City
After 10 years of living in city apartments and after 7 years of living in the city of Philadelphia, I have finally gathered my things, packed up boxes, and am moving back to suburbia. I was way overdue to get out of this place…
Design Block!
I was on a kick doing work and it just fell to the way side. It pisses me off…
SIGGRAPH Boston 2006
I was invited to speak at Siggraph on behalf of the Art Institutes. I talked about my experiences entering into the design field and how I got to where I am today…