Ian Hickson: "...to a rough approximation, all the content on the Web is errorneous, invalid, or non-conformant." (Emphasis mine.)

If you wish to become a web designer or web developer; if you wish to work with a web designer or web developer; if you wish to marry, become friends with, or hire a web designer or developer, you must understand this. ( Read more... )

I wouldn’t be a member of the blogosphere (ugh) if I didn’t link to this year’s Edge Annual Question: What is your dangerous idea? Like any good blog meme, this is a good way to waste three hours. I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out this gem from Daniel C. Dennett:

The human population is still growing, but at nowhere near the rate that the ( Read more... )

From The Elements of Typographic Style, my new favorite reference volume:
Most writing and typography … remain contentedly abstract, like a theater script or a musical score. The script of Macbeth does not need to be bloodstained and spattered with tears; it needs to be legible. And the score of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata does not need ( Read more... )

I had a whole entry typed up before I left for Thanksgiving. I swear I did. I know not where it went.

To prove how much of a dork I am, I wandered around The Container Store last week for about thirty minutes. It was my first time inside said store, and the whole time I could think only this single thought: "I should be forbidden from shopping ( Read more... )

Writing from my new apartment, now that my seemingly interminable flood of stuff-to-do has slowed to a trickle. Cable and internet are hooked up, everything is more or less where I want it, and I cooked my first meals in the new place today - I'd put off grocery-shopping until yesterday because I was too busy to prepare something at a leisurely ( Read more... )

Do you like rhythm games at all? If so, I cannot recommend Guitar Hero more highly. The joints on my fingers ache from holding down fret buttons all weekend.

It's hard to find - I had to go to the Best Buy in Cedar Park to get my copy - but it's worth the adventure. The soundtrack is great, and the game does a great job of approximating actual ( Read more... )

Because the Something Awful Forums are such a monstrously huge online community, they've had to deal with all sorts of bizarre user-management scenarios. Banned members returning over and over to annoy people; members stirring up drama, swearing to leave, leaving, then coming back later; and, yes, members dying, through causes commonplace and ( Read more... )

In local news: the job is going well. I've been meaning to write something about it, but I haven't done much yet, so I was reluctant to post a three-sentence blog entry.

First, the exciting part: I will be leaving on a business trip to the Bay Area tomorrow, along with roughly nine of my co-workers. There's a three-day summit on UI with our ( Read more... )

Sunday's news: the Saints suck, but San Antonio can suck it.

Tom Benson is the new most-hated owner on earth, but strange as it may seem I can't bring myself to hate him. Everyone's owner is the worst owner in sports. Owners aren't supposed to be liked (unless they're Wellington Mara, it would seem, but then the Giants aren't ever going to leave ( Read more... )

First day at work. It's going very well so far, and I'll write a longer entry about it soon, but I must remark: has it really been this long since I used Windows on a daily basis? All my keyboard shortcuts are wrong - I instinctively reach for Alt instead of Ctrl, because that's where the Command key would be on a Mac. Alt-L will not change ( Read more... )