The $1000 font
Keeping things business as usual, LetterHead Fonts was nice enough to post about the subsequent bittorent of the their LHF Garner, a classic sign font akin to the Larabie Blue Highway, or the exquisite...
View ArticleWhy even advertise, MSN?
Todd Bishop asks Why are these ads for MSN, not Windows Live – I’m wondering why they’d even advertise. Google gets to write snart billboards if they so choose seeing as they’re the big kid on the...
View ArticleHow to find and replace in MySQL PHPmyAdmin
Just because someone asked, here’s a quick way to find and replace content in MySQL using PHPmyAdmin. This technique works the same command line, and it’s possible it works similar in applications such...
View ArticleBless you, New York
Hot on the tails of an upcoming moving, New York hits us with a quality poster mark. George Clooney’s a good actor, but you can’t help but giggle at the wit.
View Article960 Grid System
Working hard to streamline web design, Nathan Smith created the 960 Grid System: a series of electronic templates and web code to help designers create advanced sites based off the stylistic technique...
View ArticleMicrosoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors
Microsoft sends an aggressive, and somehow sour, message to Yahoo! Board of Directors. I can’t help but giggle at the tone of professionally whining in this letter- like the big kid not catching the...
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It's Tops: Best Diner in San Francisco
San Francisco, like most major cities, is a town built on a melting pot of cuisine. No where else can you find fresh sushi next door to a bistro serving the in season best of the Sonoma valley- but...
View Articlethe RedPost: Custom Signs for the Bently Reserve
Eric Kanagy of the RedPost Inc. recently posted my sign Designs at the Bently Reserve, and I wanted to explain them a bit more to the world. I’ll go more in detail in posts soon about the technical...
View ArticleRandomizing Post Data in WordPress 2.5
I recently updated a client’s business website to WordPress 2.5, and noticed the dated rand_posts trick failed me. Further investigation noted that WordPress had completely changed it’s table schema...
View ArticleMicrosoft Vista SP1 Video: 80's humor, today!
I lost a part of myself this morning I’ll never get back, thanks to this Microsoft Vista internal pitch:
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Grandview park: 360° of San Francisco
On April 19th, 2008, the pacific coastal winds burrowed through the avenues of San Francisco and up the hillsides peaked with houses. Very few people seemed out on the town, and the ones who braved...
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Ads are now on YouTube Videos
Well, it was bound to happen, the question was less when so much as it was how, and it’s an interesting addition I’d say uses inventive techniques. Case in point- Ever Broke an Aluminum Bat (which...
View ArticleAwarding the web through negative reinforcement
Would you accept a compliment about your hair, from a stylist with horrible hair? If a mechanic said your car was junk, would you take them serious if their own car didn’t run (Steve Buscemi excluded)?...
View ArticleWelcome home, Hanzõ
Yesterday evening Sheryl joined me for a spring trunk show of Amber Marie Bently’s new line of Jewelry at the W Hotel in San Francisco. As the evening ran down, Kattya and Patrick, friends and owners...
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Hanzõ Day One
It was a long night with a spunky puppy; I’m slightly scared for my life with the next six months looking forward to staying at home babysitting and not being able to spend time with Sheryl… but he’s...
View ArticleDisable wpautop
My apologies for the feed reflux, but fed up with wordpress’ auto correct functionality, I turned it off in my posts via disable wpautop plugin. No longer paragraphs in the wrong places, no longer...
View ArticleFirst-line and letter for all browsers
Safari allows full support of the first-line and the first-letter CSS request, but Firefox 2 and under only shows partial support. Case example: the containing div of this post is class=entry (class...
View ArticleParkmerced
I’ve been digging around the Bay Area looking for a new apartment, and we continue to see the marketing ads for Parkmerced, so it was worth doing an online search. Aside Apartment Ratings scathing...
View ArticleRandy Vo
I talked one more time yesterday morning (while in Chicago) with Randy Vo. He had told me last Wednesday that he would be getting the money to reimburse us for the medical to save Hanzõ’s life and...
View ArticleTalking with Randy Vo
The saga continues with the broker who sold us our dog; it’s come to an interesting point where I’m unsure that we can mediate a solution, though I’ve tried over a dozen times, By May 23rd I had not...
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