Archive for April 2005

Happy Birthday, Baby!

In Life on 29 April 2005 with Comments Off

Today is Heather’s birthday. Send her some lovin.

Pixel Boy

In Fun on 23 April 2005 with Comments Off

I love my new neighborhoodie.

Photo by Heather.
I’m a designer for a living. I spend my days moving pixels. Sometimes I feel like all those pixels on the screen own me. Now everybody knows – I am my pixels’ bitch.

Web Developer Gig

In Technorati on 23 April 2005 with Comments Off

Sorry for the business intrusion, but we’ve got a contract position to fill at Technorati. So if you’re a hardcore xhtml/css wonk in San Francisco and you’re interested in a 1-2 month, in-house contract, read on!
UPDATE: Position filled!

My new book, same as the old book

In Books, Clips, For Sale, Powazek, San Francisco on 21 April 2005 with Comments Off

San Francisco Stories started out as a website, then became a book published by So New Media. It went out of print there a year ago. I finally got around to republishing it, thanks to the good folks at Lulu. I got my copy today and it looks great. Check it out!
Cross one thing off [...]

Redesign madness

In Blogging, Design, Internet, Weblogs on 19 April 2005 with Comments Off

Caroline strips down her old site and relaunches at Each Man. (Aside to Caz: I got the reference.) Tom goes minimal with Plastic Bag. (Aside to Tom: Bold, confident design. Props!) I’d say there was a trend here, except that Matt just took his previously stripped-down A Whole Lotta Nothing and layered on the CSS [...]

I am the Luckiest

In Love on 18 April 2005 with Comments Off

Photo by Katy Raddatz
It’s nine months ago today that Heather and I were married. And every day I’m more glad.
Happy nine month anniversary, baby.

Come here often?

In Blogging, Geek, Internet, Weblogs on 15 April 2005 with Comments Off

Jeff Veen makes a great comment about intimidating interfaces and I couldn’t agree more. My favorite recent example of this was at Tickets.com. Try to buy concert tickets and this is the first thing you see:

Captchas (those annoying “type that crap from the image in the box, you monkey”) are annoying enough, but the bold, [...]

Ephemera Archive by Base Color

In Blogging, Geek, Internet, Weblogs on 14 April 2005 with Comments Off

I’ve been posting photos to Ephemera for over 15 months now (666 photos as of today – creepy!). Any content-based site that runs long enough eventually has to solve the how-do-I-find-stuff problem. Blogs do this with archives by date and category. Others increasingly use search, leaving it to the user to figure out what they [...]

Get Lost!

In JPG Magazine, Photography, Powazek on 11 April 2005 with Comments Off

The second issue of Heather’s and my labor of love photo maagazine has been published!
Issue 2 of JPG Magazine, the quarterly of brave new photography, is here! Inside you’ll find 43 photographic interpretations of the word “lost.” Also includes a set of powerful portraits by featured photographer Ryan Keberly of Detroit’s disposessed, as well as [...]

Heather via Flickr

In Internet, Photography, Photos, Powazek on 9 April 2005 with Comments Off

I’m really enjoying the crappy camera in my Sidekick 2 lately. You can see the results in my Flickr Photos Tagged Hiptop.