Frustrate

Want to frustrate the living hell out of a designer (especially a Mac-based designer)? Require him/her to submit a résumé in MS Word DOC format. I just spent most of the evening redoing my PDF-based (and Illustrator-designed) résumé in Word, only to discover that, hey, guess what… you can’t embed fonts in a Word document…

Access Denied

Something I’ve noticed over the past few days is a disturbing trend in Web 2.0 sites out there: the good ol’ fashioned lock-out. I’ve noticed it in my normal browsing habits, but with the influx of visitors that my “OmniWeb bookmarklet”:http://gregorybowers.com/write/use-standalone-feedreaders-with-omniweb entry brought, I’ve started curiously following some of the links in my Mint referral…

Mark it

It’s somewhat odd that I’ve come to the point where I use RSS feeds to bookmark sites I want to revisit, and bookmarks to advertise sites I think other people should visit, but I’ll probably never look at again…

Use Standalone Feedreaders with OmniWeb

I recently wrote a little love letter to my dear friend, OmniWeb, regarding my inability to (easily) subscribe to RSS and ATOM feeds in an external, standalone feedreader (such as Vienna). Sure, OmniGroup have built in a bookmark-based feedreader (of sorts) into OmniWeb. That’s fine for a casual feed user, but my needs are far…

Dearest OmniWeb

====Oh my dear, beloved “OmniWeb”:http://omnigroup.com/omniweb … I think it’s time we had a talk. I love spending time with you every day, but since you’ve decided to start only asking 10 bucks for new purchases in November, I feel that I must air a small frustration in our relationship. Do you recall the time we…

QOTD: Politicians

The results are in and we lost. Undecided races notwithstanding, every single seat in both the Senate and the House has been taken by politicians. [emphasis is mine – ed.] – Joshua Steimle I won’t comment on the rest of the article—mostly because I thought the first line was so brilliant that I didn’t want…