Archive for July, 2005



I Feel Empowered

So I’m sure all you faithful readers remember me getting more than a little upset over the website daFont.com blocking users of the AdBlock Firefox extension from downloading fonts. I myself spoke (via email) with the webmaster of daFont. He understood my position but said that they did have servers to pay for. I completely […]

Chairtopia

Forget the video iPod, I want one of these!
Its a cheap knockoff of the Aeron style chairs. Let me summarize: THIS IS THE KIND OF THING GEEKS REALLY DREAM ABOUT AT NIGHT.
From LifeHacker: “The Russell Executive Mesh Chair’s breathable material and ergonomic adjustable parts looks and sits a lot like an Aeron but sells for […]

My New Toy

No, I didn’t buy that Creative thingy-ma-bob. I’m talking about my new favorite “piece of software I should have discovered a long time ago instead of making this incredibly long and useless sentence about it.” Its called “NetNewsWire” and it can be downloaded, learned about, and eventually test-driven over at ranchero.com/netnewswire/.
I would love to write […]

I Want One Of These So Bad

I’ve been drooling and dreaming over the idea of a video-enabled iPod for quite some time now. However, I was poking around and found this little diddy. Its called the Creative Zen Vision. It’s interface and features are frightfully close to those one might want from a “videoPod.”
Check out a nice review/roundup over at dapreview.net
Here’s […]

Ok, Now I’m Pissed!

Ok, so I’m browsing around, working on some web design stuff that I’ll reveal at a later date ;), and I begin looking for a specific font for this header image (on one of my irreplacably favorite font resource websites) at dafont.com - not suspecting a thing - and as I go to download a […]