Post Archives for July 2005

9 Dance (Channel 9 Wallpaper)

The last C9 wallpaper was a good Photoshop exercise, but a little overbearing to be used as a wallpaper. I needed to replace it with something lighter and a little more feel good. And poor C9 guy, usually has that stoic look on his face. After some coercion and some good music, he started to get …

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posted on Jul 27th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Update: The housekeeper did come back...

...And he/she/they (it doesn't matter) did a hell of a job. Its interesting because not only do thye clean, but they also take a few liberties to nicen up the place. Towels folded into shapes, furniture straightened, they even folded some of my clothes that were on the floor. Unfortunately, this …

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posted on Jul 27th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

My housekeeper should be a woman

The place I am currently staying at has housekeeping come in to your apartment every two weeks, which is super nice. This morning though, I was running a bit later (thanks to late night coding) and as I was getting ready I heard a knock on the door. "Housekeeping." I look through the peephole to …

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posted on Jul 25th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Multiple Themed Windows XP CSS Desktop

Here's a pretty cool reproduction of the Windows Desktop done completely with CSS and HTML. Complete with multiple themes, including Longhorn, and an XP Bootscreen! [via w3bbo - "if only my PC booted that fast"]…

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posted on Jul 24th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Too far (Channel 9 Wallpaper)

So maybe I've been focused on Channel9 a little too much, but it sure felt good to take a break. 1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 Special thanks to the members of stock.xchng for the guy, mic and toilet paper roll. …

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posted on Jul 22nd, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

LAIKA,a new animated film studio

This is exciting. A new animated feature film company called LAIKA was announced yesterday (PDF). You can check out a sample of their work in progress film titled Moongirl. …

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posted on Jul 20th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

What's the main thing about programming that keeps you happy?

This started over on the CH9 forums, but it sounded like something that could spread on the blogs and I wanted to record my answer on my own blog. So here it is: I just like to create. It may be an efficient data system, a user and data friendly UI, or an animated illustration. I like to take a c…

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posted on Jul 19th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Atom 1.0 is out, and I'm digging it

I've been following Atom since the beginning, (even suggested a few names for it), and I'm very pleased to see Atom 1.0 making its way towards completion. So why Atom over RSS? Tim Bray has a comparision between the two written up here. But let me tell you what I like about it: the overall sch…

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posted on Jul 19th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Amaztype

This is how Bill Hill organizes his book collection.

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posted on Jul 13th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sammamish Blogger Meetup

Jeff is calling for a Sammamish Blogger Meetup. "great food, free wifi and of course beer"

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posted on Jul 11th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

DONTCLICK.IT

Very fun research site called dontclick.it hit the tipping point recently. I really dig the interface work, lots of user feedback on choices made and your index finger gets to take a break. I'm jealous of designing sites with almost a static amount of information to be displayed. It seems like…

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posted on Jul 11th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Thoughts on Seattle

So this is the beginning of my fourth week living in the Seattle area. Brand new state, brand new region, very different from the cornfields of Indiana. But in a good way, a very good way.Let's see we've got - Diversity - All types of people in all different ways, in the city and at the work plac…

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posted on Jul 11th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Finally, a design I can be proud of...

Its funny. I've been avoiding reading blogs somewhat because I'm afraid I'll actually want to respond via my own blog. The problem was a sloppy design and no tools. We'll I've taken care of that now. Actual admin tools and a design I actually like. Now I can be comfortable re-entering…

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posted on Jul 9th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)

3D Channel 9 guy in XAML

I thought I'd check out erain's new ZAM 3D beta and of course what else would I draw other than the Channel9 guy! XAML Source available here…

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posted on Jul 5th, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)