I'm going to the XOXO Festival
I just backed the XOXO Festival on Kickstarter. It seems amazing, its local(-ish), and when I first read about it, it seemed like something I'd regret not...
To Kellan, On Occasion of your First Birthday
Dear Kellan, Shortly after your brother was born, I...
An Easter Vignette
The boy was tall for his age - he stood out more as the woman laid down the ground rules as dozens of younger, smaller children all milled around...
An Adaptive Image Technique: Thinking out loud
I've been playing a lot with responsive layouts, and the inevitable bugbear of adaptive images for responsive designs. Ethan Marcotte's Fluid Images is...
Eastside Mural Tour project: a critique
I want to preface this by saying I love the idea of the Eastside Mural Tour project, for so many reasons: I love Vancouver's art, particularly the hidden,...
Clearing line-breaks in SQL Server text fields
I was recently doing a data export for a client that included a bunch of ostensibly plain-text data fields that include any number of tabs, carriage...
Comics
I buy comics. A fair amount of comics. I've drastically cut back my spending these past couple of years, but the fact remains is that nearly every week of...
Reducing Aural & visual notification clutter
I, like many of us, am constantly bombarded by small interruptions that not only negatively affect my productivity, but often can affect my mood. From my...
London Calling
I don't know if I stole it from my brother, or inherited...
A million dollars isn't cool, you know what's cool?
There's been a lot of chatter locally about startups, startup culture and startup support in Vancouver. (See: Boris, Jesse, Allen, the twitters of @kaler...