I took some photos of K’s jewelry the other day for her website. While I do charge for my time, I don’t consider myself a professional photographer and generally recommend to my clients to get a real pro. But sometimes it’s just faster to do it myself. Anyway, I used a couple of cameras, one [...]

In a masterpiece of doublespeak, Daniel Henninger sat down and “in the pale glow of a PC screen, types onto a keyboard what’s on his… mind.” Unfortunately, what he wrote about are the perils of other people sharing what’s on their minds. You see, the problem is “disinhibition.” Yes, the internet allows those of us [...]

Kottke has some good observations on why YouTube and Google Video are replacing BitTorrent for video sharing.

I had the interesting experience the other day of having to update a website that had been optimized. By optimized I mean that all the whitespace had been stripped from the HTML. There were no line breaks, no spaces between page elements, no comments. Even the end tags of elements like paragraphs and lists were [...]

I recently made a pitch to C to create her website. I waxed on and on about the advantages of using a content management system for her site. She asked, “If a CMS is so good, why would anybody want to use regular web pages?” Here’s are some answers:

John Gruber discusses an inconsistency with Apple’s cut, copy and paste commands. In Cocoa applications like TextEdit and MarsEdit you get a subtle difference in behavior depending on how you select text. Cut and paste may introduce unintended spaces, which is not helpful when coding. This is the only place I’ve seen the rules explained.

According to an article in ComputerWorld Adobe will release Intel native versions of its Creative Suite in the Spring of 2007. Acrobat will come out this fall with a Universal Binary version. No word yet on when Photoshop Elements will make the switch. Version 4 of Elements was released in early 2006. If Adobe holds [...]