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Threw away my poker face
We try not to hurt anyone. That’s the goal. At least, it has been stated as a goal. I heard it. I’ve said it. We do what we feel we should in a way that we believe to be fair to everyone involved. We don’t want to hurt anyone. We say what we say and tell what we tell and give the glimpses that we are able. We don’t want to mislead. We don’t want to cause pain. We don’t want to cause strife. But we just might. This is what we have to come to grips with. The possibility that each thing we think we are doing to protect others may not be. That in our effort to not cause difficulty, we have caused pain instead. Even though our stated goal was to not hurt anyone. This is the choice we make with each action. With... Read→
The Power of the Internet
It began last night as reply to a simple tweet. After awhile, a couple of friends had jumped in and tweets were flying back and forth, all in good fun. And then things were kicked into the next gear. An email was received saying one friend had been tagged in a Facebook post by another. I suppose twitter’s character limit just got to… limiting. Over the next couple of hours, there were over 200 comments across 3 profiles by 6 friends. Comments were coming in as fast as you could refresh the pages, each funnier than the last. It was an excellent evening among friends. Friends who are separated in some cases by other a thousand miles. Friends who live in 4 cities across 3 states. It was as close as these friends were going to get under... Read→
Better than what you’re reading now
I keep meaning to post, but writing code keeps pulling me into the abyss from which no posts ever emerge. As I am unsure that I will ever get out of the pit of darkness that is code, here is a list of what I have been reading lately. Fonts!!! Bulletproof @font-face syntax – Paul Irish Defeating the Flash of Unstyled Text – Paul Irish Generator of EOT font files for IE – font squirel Detecting @font-face – Paul Irish Yes, I am loving Paul Irish’s site this month. Some set font-stacks to get you started HTML5 Detect if a browser has specific HTML5 elements with this tiny javascript Dive into HTML5 Video tag with graceful fallbacks Other Running multiple instances of XP-Mode in Win7 for IE testing Read More →











