I spent last night cooking with my mother at her home in Murray. She recently discovered that she is dangerously close to developing diabetes (or, as Wilford Brimley might say, dia-beet-us), just as her father did around the same age, and she’s been put on a new diet that severely restricts what she can eat.…
Wild Style
Have you had your website or “logo”:http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2007/04/01/simplefools.html ripped off before? Kinda ticks you off, right? Well, imagine having more or less everything about your burger franchise, down to the colours and the menus, copied. A “local burger place”:http://www.ksl.com/?sid=1282451&nid=148 is drumming up huge business because they are “just like In&Out.” Chadder’s of American Fork, UT, is…
Yorkies, Aeros & Hob Nobs… OH MY!
I just got back from my “local grocer”:http://www.harmonsgrocery.com/ (the same one that shocked me last year by stocking “rambutan”:http://www.rambutan.com/ in their produce section), and boy, have they done it again. Okay, so it wasn’t quite as unexpected as seeing dark red spiky orbs of pure pleasure, but even still… I discovered the British foods section.…
Back In Fashion
I was getting dressed today and I noticed something in the back of my closet. Okay, so perhaps the only reason I noticed it was the fact I haven’t done laundry in a while. Regardless, the item in question is a shirt. A sort of faded plaid button up shirt. Not just any shirt mind…
Dear Subaru Outback XT
This is your driver, Greg. You know, the guy who likes to rev-up your turbo and who sorely needs to get you serviced. I know, I know, I should treat you better. You are a great car; pricey, yes, but a wonderful drive. I do have a request, my dear blue wagon: Please cool it…
Just a reminder: It’s the First of May
Yes, it is May One, and you know what that means…
Let’s Dive Deeper
Okay, so I’m watching Leno (you have to do something while you wait for Conan to come on) talk about how Italian he is with some guest when they cut to the adverts. Since I’m also working on something in Photoshop (revised “Create”:http://gregorybowers.com/create section, if you were wondering), I don’t immediately mute for the commercials.…
Survey
==== I just took the “2007 A List Apart Web Design Survey.”:http://alistapart.com/articles/webdesignsurvey If you are involved in making the web, you should too. Surveys like this help us designers and developers get a grasp of where our industry currently stands, and what the average web worker is doing and making. We’re certainly an outspoken industry,…
How I spent my friday
== It seems that EyeTV 2.4’s QuickTime component for MPEG can lead to a chain of events that makes password authentication for OS X impossible. That can affect login, the Keychain, or anytime that OS X asks for your name and password. You may see a crash involving the LoginWindow or SecurityAgent. – Elgato’s Support…
Qualify
== Information architecture. Usability. Accessibility. Web standards. If you don’t know about these things, stop designing websites until you have learned. Competence in graphic design is merely a baseline; it does not qualify you to create user experiences for the web. – Jeffrey Zeldman, discussing the backward web design methods used by a prominent agency…