Author: Craig

Gmail Under Attack

Well it’s been months and my gmail account has now been compromised. I logged in the other day to find 11 spams in my spambox, none of them actually addressed to my actual address. Today it was 13. And 2 more just a few minutes ago. Most of them so far have been hawking pirated… Continue reading Gmail Under Attack

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Reverting to Pasta

I’ve been on the standards train for two years or so. In that time, the neurons and mesons of my development habits have been so thoroughly remapped that I have a really hard time thinking in old-school table-based ways. The transition to web standards brings on a fundamental change in how one approaches design challenges.… Continue reading Reverting to Pasta

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Syrup

I just finished reading Syrup, the debut novel by clever young Aussie Max(x) Barry, who is in the early stages of what I hope grows into a long and successful career. He’s gained some recent notoriety for his second novel, Jennifer Government, which I also thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend. I loved Jenny Gov. enough… Continue reading Syrup

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Bad Dream

I had a really strange nightmare last night. The details are kind of fuzzy, but I do remember the gist of it. I dreamed that I had gone back in time, or perhaps been transported to another dimension, it was hard to tell which. I was living in a place filled with millions of mindless… Continue reading Bad Dream

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Mama’s Got a Brand New Blog

This weekend I finished the much-nagged-for redesign of Moment Ago, the weblog of Jolene Spry, PR pimpadelic cyberhottie gamer geekstress extraordinaire, who is also (amazingly enough) my best friend. I got her into blogging a few months back and set her up with WordPress. She’s got a design background, but primarily dealing with Flash, so… Continue reading Mama’s Got a Brand New Blog

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Noteworthy Referral Flood

Checking my shortstats this evening, I see I’ve been slammed with another referrer spam attack. 111 hits in the space of a few minutes, seemingly coming from a website which did not, in fact, link to mine. Not only did they hit my home page, but they crawled all the various links on it, finding… Continue reading Noteworthy Referral Flood

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The Death(s) of Comics

Comics in America have been on a 70-year sine wave, riding up and down in the public consciousness. Bursts of enormous success and popularity, followed by periods of dwindling sales and degraded quality, only to resurge again in connection with some new innovation or cultural paradigm shift. It’s been a bumpy and fascinating ride. American… Continue reading The Death(s) of Comics

Brian Stood Up Martha

Heading to lunch at a nearby foodcourt, I saw this curious note on the sidewalk. It was weighed down with stones, so obviously it was a deliberate placement and not just a random scrap of paper that found its way there. Someone carefully wrote this note and carefully placed it right at the bottom of… Continue reading Brian Stood Up Martha

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Some New Redesigns

Ars Technica launched a new design today, with a much-needed change to their color scheme. Black text on a light gray background is infinitely more readable than the old white-on-black migraine-inducing site they’ve had for years. Previously, the only way I could stand to read their content was by highlighting the text (which inverted the… Continue reading Some New Redesigns

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