Further proof that i’m a geek. I play chess all the time. I LOVE it. We have a portable chess set in the car to take to restaurants and we have an antique chess table set up in our living room.
Also, I’m a web designer. Love of design, color and code…
Here is a wonderful article on both those subjects from Smashing Magazine by Alexander Dawson.
Web Design Checkmate: Using Chess For Success in Web Design
September 3rd, 2010Proper Standards-Compliant Color Use in Web Design
August 24th, 2010Interesting read over at Design Instruct By D. S. Del Rosario:
career change maybe?
June 25th, 2010
thanks to david who found this gem 
New custom iPhone case from getuncommon.com
June 4th, 2010
Ordered myself a custom iPhone case from the lovely people at getUncommon.com! Decided to use my bats illustration from last halloween. You cant really tell from the image but the blue printed quite dark. As it’s supposed to be a night sky, i’m still quite pleased at the result. Case is sleek, and the headphone opening is large enough to fit my large sony plug. I’ll try docking it tonight and see if i have any problems. It feels nicer to hold than my last case which was a soft plastic Paperchase one similar to this. They included a 20% off coupon for my next case, which is always a wonderful way to make a customer feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I’m not sure which illustration i’ll use, i’m torn between:
and
Maybe i’ll go for broke and get them both!
how did they…
May 26th, 2010Whoa.. ok so if you copy anything from any article on Time.com, when you paste.. it will add “Read more:” with the link from the page you copied from.
Very very cool. Also, now I’m going to proceed to dissect their site to figure out how they are doing that…
“Reveal your secrets….”
Give Your Website A Custom iPhone Icon!!
May 26th, 2010
Sweet how-to over on DesignWoop!
Love finding new ways to make sites more available to the iPhones and iPads of the world…