Archive for July 2007

28 Jul 2007 0726H

Monocle

I’ve just twigged to this newish magazine, Monocle, through a series of videos on city design at the International Herald Tribune, one of my favorite designed readings on the net.
Look at this gorgeous modernism that does not use sans serif type for its headers. It’s simply beautiful. I can even forgive the black background [...]

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26 Jul 2007 1146H

Construction Notes 9: Weird box around some page elements in IE7

Lots of geek talk ahead.
There’s not supposed to be any padding or spacing around the horizontal rules on this page in IE7, and yet, there are. When I tweak the stylesheet to float them left or right, it seems to eliminate the box margin-padding at top but not the bottom. I’m calling it a bug [...]

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24 Jul 2007 2051H

Design notes, on PBS

Was watching NOVA tonight, and saw a sculpture called Kryptos, which contains coded messages about light and darkness, and the wonder of discovery, embedded within it. An awe inspiring piece. (As a complete aside, there was also a marvelous piece about the discoverer of gravitational lensing and how he’s giving back to his community.)
Then followed [...]

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22 Jul 2007 0822H

This blog turned one

About a week and a half ago, anyway, and of course, was so wrapped up that I didn’t take the time to notice. . . things are busy. And, this is post 300!

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20 Jul 2007 1958H

Ahhhh, social expression

Spent a few days at the home office in Beachwood. We didn’t get to work on what I’d been summoned there in part to work on, but it worked out anyway. Pretty productive few days and I got to meet some new people, see old colleagues. Ha. Old. It’s almost the end of Year One [...]

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20 Jul 2007 0457H

Construction Notes 8, Continued

wp_footer() is not optional strictly speaking. Leave it off, the scrobbler’s AJAX function doesn’t work, etc, etc.
First week with Bad Behavior. Bad Behavior blocks 98%+ of comment spam, the rest is caught by Akismet. At least here anyway. Get it.

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19 Jul 2007 1828H

What is this “come to Jesus meeting”?

I keep hearing this phrase recently at clients and at the home office, where I am at this week. It is the “Come to Jesus meeting.” Which is what exactly? Well, a Google search reveals the truth: the “Come to Jesus Meeting” defined. It reminds me of the phrase, “drank the kool aid,” which got [...]

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17 Jul 2007 2038H

Construction Notes 8: Flipping the Switch, Leaving It On

It’s not done, but, I’m going to leave this new theme on. In the meantime I’ll stuff the things I took out of the sidebar on the left back in until I can remove them to Categories, Archives, and Links pages. I have the two nav items at top working, but it’s a hack. I [...]

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17 Jul 2007 0923H

Construction Notes 7: Review, Reflect, Repost Some More

Realized last night with site construction that I’m now in reactive mode, where I’m picking at individual things, which is always slower than strategic mode. Need to step back and make a big list of things to do.
Of course there’s work for clients, and paperwork to fill out for the company since we’re talking [...]

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16 Jul 2007 0559H

re: media coverage of the Amy Jacobson story

For those not familiar, for the last week we, the Chicago public, have been deluged by a media frenzy over a story broken by a rival station about a reporter who was caught fraternizing with a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife, ostensibly to land the story, and the frenzy seems to [...]

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