Writing on full-stack design & development.

Well, as I was telling Eric , I've officially moved. Sunny Bloomington, Indiana is the city I now call home. Emily and I have mostly finished putting everything away and moving around our furniture (you really don't realize how much stuff you have until you have to move everything...), and now all that's left is hanging pictures and organizing shelves. Last week was a crazy, stressful one, but now I finally feel kind of settled in. Emily started orientation today at IU , and I've been purposely trying to get lost in order to explore the city.

Well, it took a little time to get the results, but apparently I've won . I'm very excited about the results. Thanks as always to the css off guys, and more on the subject tomorrow(:

Back from the trip. It was wonderful. Some catch-up news:

Emily (pictured) and I are leaving this evening for our annual trip to Cape Cod. We'll be gone for a whole glorious week, hanging out on the beach and drinking beers. I can already smell the ocean. See everyone in a week!

I came across a post (via Daring Fireball ) by Joel Spolsky regarding comments below blog posts . While I think that he sort of misrepresented Dave Winer's post about blogs (Dave's post was about what it means to be a blog, and the fact that having comments don't make a blog), Joel does bring up some interesting points about comments:

Judging is underway for the latest CSSOFF contest, so, as promised, here's my entry , and here's the jpeg of the initial file we got. As I said before, I'm pretty happy with the results. Here are my thoughts on this entry.

I've finally finished with my cssoff entry . I worked on it from 1am till about 8am, and then a couple hours this afternoon ironing out browser (read: Internet Explorer) bugs. I'm pretty happy with what I ended up with though.

One of my goals for this website was to use it as a vehicle not only for web dev stuff, but also for art. So, here is the first set of images. This is a collection of landscapes that I've done over the past year; some in conjunction with class, others on my own time. These were all made with my old Minolta digital camera and Photoshop.

FreelanceSwitch is holding a survey for freelance workers of any kind. I took it. So should you.

So last month, I was attending the fairly new Cleveland Web Standards Meet-Up . I was talking to Eric Wiley about the redesign I did for the Free Times , and Eric Meyer, who came for the first time, overheard. He says "new site, huh?" and pulls out his laptop.