(Via Bill, and Chris Tingom) The new Manpower logo is awesome.

Camino is a web borwser for the Mac that wraps a native OS X interface around the popular Gecko rendering engine. It's fast, and renders 99.8% of sites exactly like Firefox. After 1.0 came out, Idecide to try it out as my main web browser.

He says he'll stop. Will he, or is this another "no one is inviting me to conferences about things I invented. I'm going to take my blog and go home"?

My friend Bill has been sitting on a secret project at his work for a year or so now. I knew he was hyper-excited about it, but the little scamp wouldn't give me a clue about it. Eventually he clued me in that it had to do with blogging, and only recently he gave me some access to the system with some dire grumbling that I keep my big yap shut.

Most awesomest poster ever (original).

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

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

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:

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'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.

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).