ZodomaticaBits of Tzaddi's Life

An open letter to clothing designers & retailers Dear fashion folk, I want to give you money. If only you would let me. (Did that get your attention?) Recently I went shopping for new clothes: I’d heard about some great jeans available on Main Street in Vancouver. Unfortunately, like so many other occasions, the store [...]

Posted: May 20th, 2009 under Activism, Design, Life.
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Recently while coding a client’s site, I had an issue with a background image being misaligned by just one pixel. It was only happening in Safari. I tried a number of things and finally resorted to a CSS hack for Safari. Today I found the shift also happened in Firefox 3. Doh! Fortunately a discussion [...]

Posted: September 1st, 2008 under Design, Web Tips.
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SmartyPig looks like an interesting new service to watch. (Found it in my RSS feed from the oh-so-talented Jason Santa Maria, who designed the site with his colleagues at Happy Cog. Way to go, Cogsters!) It’s purpose is making saving fun and easy, so you can take that dream vacation without the guilt of maxing [...]

Posted: March 13th, 2008 under Computers & Tech, Design, Marketing.
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I recently built a new speechwriter’s site for Colin Moorhouse. Over the years I’ve helped Colin with his websites, bailing him out of trouble when things got too technical or fixing them when his WYSIWYG editor messed things up. Now that it’s in WordPress he’s updating like mad, and it’s wonderful to watch it come [...]

Posted: March 1st, 2008 under Activism, Culture Consumed, Design.
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Whether you agree with him or not, at least you can count on Jakob Nielsen to be interesting. …on the Web, most people are bozos and not worth listening to. A snippet from Why Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous.

Posted: February 27th, 2008 under Computers & Tech, Design, Usability & HCI.
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