January 24th, 2010
in Personal
After failing to register sne.eu, I’d been on the hunt for an interesting domain hack, I eventually stumbled across uɥoɾ.com, which I snapped up immediately. In doing so, I learned a little about registering an IDN, which I thought might be of use to others.
If you are interested in registering an interesting domain name read the how-to written by John Sutherland.
January 22nd, 2010
in Personal
December 18th, 2009
in Personal
The magic of this film, though, happens as the inky black expands. Pulling farther and farther from Earth, you see the deep blue of the Pacific give way to night as the Sun comes into focus, the orbits of the solar system shrink smaller and smaller, the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpio stretch and distort, and, as the Milky Way receeds, the spidery structure of millions of other galaxies come into view. Then, you reach the limit of the observable universe, the afterglow of the Big Bang. This light has taken more than 13.7 billion years to reach our planet, and you return, back to Earth, to two lakes that are nestled between Mount Kailash and Mount Gurla Mandhata in the Himalayas.
More about the movie on amnh.org
Something worth watching in HD, full screen. Via David Airey
December 11th, 2009
in Personal
A few days ago Tim Van Damme tweeted about a website that he designed being replaced with an inferior design. Ok, inferior is an understatement here.
It’s always though seeing an old website you made go away or being butchered, but this one breaks my heart: http://www.tenforce.com/ #rip
http://twitter.com/maxvoltar/status/6440205714
Today I was browsing through the websites I worked on and noticed that one of them got so many elements added to the design that it no longer resembles to my original design. I am sure this happens a lot. Sometimes, as it is in my case, the original designer isn’t consulted when new elements are added to the website.
It’s good when there’s still a designer overseeing updates but what happens when developers do the design work too? In my case, my design looks like a christmas tree now: no logical hierarchy of the elements, poor use of typography and new colors that don’t blend with the design. Probably the client thought everything is equally important so every element screams for attention dressed in red and yellow. I kid you not 
What do you do when this happens? Do you ever contact the client? Do you just let it go?
December 3rd, 2009
in Personal
This magnets shaped and printed like the Photoshop user interface would make a great Christmas gift
Too bad it’s currently out of stock.
November 24th, 2009
in Personal
I don’t think there is such thing as shameless self promotion. It’s a part of doing business. You have to believe in your product and you have to advertise it as much as you can without getting annoying. If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody will.
There’s also a gain in promoting the work of others. As Zeldman puts it:
But direct self-promotion is ineffective and will go unnoticed unless it is backed by a more indirect (and more valuable) form of marketing: namely, sharing information and promoting others.
Is your Twitter feed mostly about your own work, or do you mainly link to interesting work by others? Link blogs with occasional opinions (or occasional techniques, or both) get read. The more you find and promote other people’s good work, the more in-the-know and “expert” you are perceived to be—and the more you (or your brand, if you must) are liked.
November 21st, 2009
in Personal
Fredo and Pid’jin is a romanian webcomic that I’ve been following for some time. They’re two evil pigeons planning to end the world. Awesome stuff!
November 19th, 2009
in Personal
During college I probably only drank Pepsi. I’m not talking about drinking Pepsi vs. Coke, I’m talking about drinking 2 liters of Pepsi every day. It’s insane but I am now proud to say that I managed to overcome that addiction:)
My wife is a Coke drinker and while I wish she would drink water instead I can definitely understand the pleasure of having an ice cold Coke.
A while ago we discovered that Costco was selling Mexican Coke. We first bought it because of the glass bottles – they look way cooler than cans. Then we discovered it was made with real sugar, not high fructose corn syrup.
That lasted until our last trip to costco when we found out that they discontinued all Coke products. What?
I guess that means no more Mexican coke for a while.
While writing this blog post today I found that there is a culture surrounding this Holy Grail of Coke. Here’s an article in the NY Times
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