Month: September 2011

CSS Layout Tricks

25 Sep 2011

So the fall layout is finally up! Believe it or not I’ve been working on the layout off and on for 2 weeks. Back in the day I used to be able to crank out a layout in a few hours. Now I care about doing it right, with durable code, and elements actually going where they belong. Since rebooting …

Oh Google, you big bully

19 Sep 2011

This is a bit of a follow-up to my post a few months ago. I wanted to take a moment and describe how hard it is to avoid google.

I finally found a reasonable e-mail provider through Zoho. It looks like their survival largely comes through being able to integrate and mimic google.
To not be logged into google, but be …

Vegan! Four Years and Counting!

06 Sep 2011

Four years ago today I was stumbling through my early days of veganism. I went vegan on September 1, 2007. Something deep inside of me had been telling me it was the right thing to do. On the first I was ready and cut all milk and eggs out of my diet, I started reading, finding cookbooks, dealt with the …

Sixty Dollar Fashion: The Power of Separates

05 Sep 2011

I remember being $14 laying on my bed reading Seventeen magazine. I’d hit the fashion spreads, often titled something like “Fashion on a Budget”. I’d get excited looking at all the awesome clothes and then read the captions, and every item listed was out of my price range. Things haven’t changed …