* for those of you unfamiliar – the title of this post is a line from Douglas Adams’ brilliant Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Month: December 2011
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Thursday, 29 December 2011
A Great Story of Free Speech @ UW-Stout
It’s unfortunate that a ‘climate of sensitivity’ was enforced so heavy-handedly. It’s unfortunate so many other players had to get involved to re-establish common sense. Especially at a campus that – at least when I was there – had gun lockers in the dorms for students. I trust the administration and police will be more sensitive in the future.
Saturday, 24 December 2011
Client Launches: ExperienceLife.com & FellowInc.com
I’m happy to announce two new client sites launched this week: one for Experience Life magazine and one for Minneapolis advertising and design studio .
Both sites are powered by a heavily-customized WordPress installation.
The Experience Life effort included the development of a system to migrate 10 years of archives, comments, assets, URLs (including shortened URLs) into WordPress. Additionally, WordPress was customized to be organized around monthly issues rather than blog post chronology.
The focus of the Fellow effort was in successfully merging the unique creative vibe of Fellow and the reliability of WordPress.
Get Fuzzy Opts Out and Dave wants a Badge
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Introducing Typerighter.com – The Minimalist Writing on All Your Devices
On any given day, I’ll be interacting with 4-6 different internet-enabled devices (multiple laptops, a handheld, a couple of tablets) the only quality they share is a decent browser and I wanted a fast, simple way to update my writing across all of them.
All the existing apps I found were filled with distractions, didn’t work across all devices, required learning a wonky syntax, didn’t deal well with long form text, or some combination of thereof.
So, I built typerighter.com
Typerighter.com recreates the simplicity and unbiased opportunity of a blank sheet of paper.
Like a blank sheet of paper – typerighter.com has one feature – Save.
It works brilliantly on mobile devices like the iPad, iPhone, and even the HP TouchPad. There’s nothing to install, nothing to download, and nothing between you and your writing.
Monday, 12 December 2011
Unblaze
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Bottoms up product management
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
My Favorite Sentences of the Day
Thursday, 1 December 2011
A Sure Sign of Goodness
I just notice two things:
- I haven’t written here in a while
- My browsers’ URL autocomplete for ‘garr’ defaults to the sub-domain of a mostly unannounced project I’m very excited about.