Archive for the 'happenings' Category

December 15 2007

Job Description

I’ve been thinking about a potential short and sweet job title / job description for a personal business card that would convey the following:

Semantic HTML
W3C Valid HTML
W3C Valid CSS
Anti-wysiwyg, hand coding
Cross browser, cross platform intricacies
SEO optimized naming conventions & coding techniques
Google friendly, user friendly URL structures
Web Standards
Usability
Yada Yada

This is what I’ve come up:

Brogramming the front […]

October 23 2007

California is Burning

Here’s a map of one of the several fires that are burning in CA. Our apartment is the green thumbtack. It looks like the firemen are doing a good job of keeping it out of the populated areas.

Lucky for Susan and I as well, is that we just got the keys to our new apartment […]

October 17 2007

Downsizing

My cable bill has been a consistent $145 a month and I really think it’s time to scale back. I whipped up a little spreadsheet to see my potential savings over the next 7 months, my time frame for packing up & moving east.
The savings quickly adds up:

$93 a month allows me to squirrel away […]

October 5 2007

Sole Long

Today is the last of my final days at Sole Technology. I’ve left for a couple of different reasons, the main being the ironic twist that this skateboarding company is the most corporate of gigs I’ve ever experienced.
Our web department has had tons of freedom in guiding all the brands online, deciding what was […]

July 25 2007

The Glass Castle

If anyone’s looking for a good book to read, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a real page turner!

June 6 2007

Free screening of “Mo” in Rockefeller Center

It’s beautiful in NYC these days, or so I hear. What better way to spend June 21st (a Thursday night) than seeing a great indy film outdoors, & for free no less?
On June 21st, at 8:30pm at Rockefeller center, you can do just that:

April 5 2007

Bdubs

Blaine and I have been best buddies forever. This morning he died. I’ll miss you dearly.

January 25 2007

Dancing at Lughnasa

My sister’s play, “Dancing at Lughnasa” opens this weekend at Theatre West in LA. It runs from Jan 26 to March 10 and there’s a delicious pre-show dinner spot right next door (10% off w/ your tickets to the show)! I saw Heather in this play a couple of months ago, and while […]

January 22 2007

etnies.com Relaunch

I posted the following on The Colab as well.
We launched a new etnies.com, the biggest change is having each sport’s home page better reflect the content found within the site. We put some callouts to the latest podcasts right on the home page, so the kids don’t have to search around for the content […]

January 10 2007

Google Reader Trends

Google reader added trends data, a neat way to view what’s been happening with your RSS habit. There’s an area that shows least read as well, a way to remove superfluous feeds. Never remove Cute Overload of course.
“From your 188 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 1,005 items, starred 11 items, […]