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I'm working on designing my first ecommerce check-out page, and I'm looking for samples of well-designed pages. Any suggestions?

I just upgraded this site to Wordpress 2.0.1, and my stats page at Dreamhost stopped working. This happened once before, and I had fixed it, so I had to go Googling for the answer again. Here it is for posterity:

Somehow I can't get that excited that about the iPod HiFi, when my daughter has the equivalent of an iPod > brain interface:

I'd say that has some shelf presence!

Today our little precious girl is 5 years old! Pics from the party a little later tonight. :-)

I tried to access this site while at the coffee shop today, and the wireless was not connecting. Assuming that it was working, I got the "could not connect to redmonk.net" message from Firefox, and freaked out, thinking my site was down. I tried to hit the web panel at my host, and in an amusing freudian slip, I typed

I just got rocked by the Wayback Machine:

Heh. Meme-fun from Wolf

~stevenf wrote a post about how he's using VoodooPad to store information on his Treo. Very neat. I've become a VoodooPad junkie as well, and -- while it's not as neat as Steven's trick -- I have a little trick I've whipped up to export a voodoopad document as a singel bookmarks page that I use as my browser's homepage.

Looking back at our fresh starts & modest changes:

Throughout this month, a wonderful quote from Walden has been turning over in my head:

I'm a real R.E.M. junkie. I recently got a bunch of iTMS money, and went a bit of a binge: my two best purchases were R.E.M.'s In Time, and their iTunes Originals collection. I also bought several R.E.M. music videos (Drive, Radio Song, Leaving New York, Near Wild Heaven, Animal, and Find The River). Wooo!

OMG. Why did I not see this before? OnLife.

I was looking for some information discussing the intersection of extreme programming (which our development team is adopting) and user experience, and I ran across this selection (in Google's book search) from Extreme Programming for Web Projects (by Doug Wallace, Isobel Raggett, and Joel Aufgang).

Get your graphic designers off Macintoshes! We are big Mac fans and have a great deal of respect for the operating system (OS), but it is a fact of life that most Web team [sic] use Windows. Furthermore, Macs are brighter than PCs. So many times we have seen a design created and shown to a customer on a Mac and then found that it was too dark for the general audience, which is 95 percent Windows users. It pains us to say it, but every Web development tool that we have seen is either not available for Mac or has a perfectly good equivalent on Windows. Photoshop and Illustrator are identical on both platforms. The only role with an argument for having a Mac is the tester and then only if the customer has selected to support the platform. I'm curious as to what folks think of this. In a discipline which tries to include a worker-focused environment (scroll down to "ExtremeEnvironment") I think that the designer should be able to use the hardware and software that makes him/her the most productive (and happiest).

I'm no sure how old this is, but it's a valuable resource. The Font Guide For Webmasters gives a list of some of the fonts which are available on the Mac and on Windows, and gieves some tips on usage in CSS.

via eHub: Who thought that calling a webservice gookbox was a good idea? I mean, I'm only a GenXer, and I seem to remember that "gook" is a fairly vulgar slang term (IIRC) for Asian (see WordNet).

Wow. Via digg, a video of the world's largest nuclear bomb being exploded.

So postulates CNN in Sleep Inertia. And be careful when waking folks up - some people are mean drunks. :-) [Thanks Jim]None

Hanging out on[#swhack](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/swhack)](irc://irc.freenode.net/swhack), and remembered this old post, about an even older site of mine. Found the site in question and got it back online.

Man, neato stuff in the new GB. I wonder how they're doing the nifty animations? wmf thinks maybe it's a Flash track in a QuickTime movie.