Today, Gonzo gave me a skateboard deck. So I had it built up. Honestly, I haven’t skated in over 3 years, and even then, I’m not sure it can be considered “skating.” I mustered up the courage to take on the mini-ramp in the basement of EXIT PHILADELPHIA, and after eating it hard [...]

While at my last job, I found myself listening to internet radio an awful lot. This typically came in the form of Pandora and Last.fm. In an effort to keep from closing the window by accident, I started making a dedicated browser window and minimizing it to the dock (I didn’t know about [...]

You have to give Mozilla’s design team credit for trying to make the new default theme for Mac Firefox look “native,” but to anyone barely familiar with Apple’s UI design, it is a horrible facsimile. The big back button cluster was laughable during beta, and it’s even more ridiculous in the full feature release. [...]

One of my latest online fixations has been smash-hit video site Hulu.com, a joint venture between some of the biggest media players in the industry. If you are willing to put up with the occasional bout of advertising, you can watch a whole ton of really good movies and TV shows, for free, on [...]

In an ideal world, Safari would be the dominant browser. There, I said it. It doesn’t have to be the only option, as Firefox certainly has a lot to offer, but recent releases have made it unquestionably the most progressive browser on the market. It is blazing fast, supports a good chunk [...]

I heard some bad news from a close friend of mine today. So far, I’ve been lucky enough to have not seen any major illness or accident befall my family. Being the accident prone one, I tend to be the person that gives the bad news, and the family gets to react. [...]

This is a quickie, but is dedicated to any budding WordPress theme and plugin developers who are just getting familiar with PHP.
If you make a call to a plugin function like, oh say, <?php wp_beta_test(); ?>, and that plugin is not currently activated in the WP backend, nothing below that line of code [...]

If you build sites, or applications, or anything related to the web, you have 3 main choices:

You can build static files locally, but your path will look something like file:///Users/xxx/Documents/Projects/xxx/Header:Footer%20(FF)/Mock/index.html (mac)
You can develop online, and you’ll get a path like http://www.xxx.com/project/index.html (if you use your own domain, or go in stealth mode and build on [...]

I think I’ve always been an “all or none” kind of guy, and my relationship with technology is no exception. Like a starving used car salesman pitching a prospective customer, I tend to proselytize my victim on my current setup, regardless of relevance. I was a fervent if not rabid IBM customer until [...]

Dear Eli Horn: I’d like to take this moment to apologize. I’m sorry that I’m the #1 google result when people search for you, despite the lack of an E at the end of your last name. It’s especially poignant since we both make websites.
Every once in a while, I pull up Mint, [...]