Globe vs. Smart iPhone 4S webpage faceoff on Dec 2, 2011 in Nitpicked I’m supposed to be hunting down a new phone (I have a 100% track record of losing phones on buses) but for some reason I can’t bring myself to choose, the main reason being I don’t depend on my phone that much. I wish voicemail were...
Singular vs. plural categories on Nov 21, 2011 in Hacking Away I recently worked on a site redesign that features different blogs in its posts. The site also used plural forms for category names, which to me felt unfriendly in describing individual sites. For example: “Pet365, a pet blog” seems more...
I hate it when WordPress themes use post thumbnails and don’t do fallback measures. I’m looking at you, Obox. on Oct 9, 2011 in Ventures obox PHP premium wordpress themes WordPress There’s a WordPress Obox theme I’m editing right now that returns broken images when post thumbnails don’t exist. Considering this is a premium theme it’s completely stupid that I have to fix this myself. (This is why I use Ge...
Leaders on Sep 12, 2011 in Nitpicked quote Leaders are not what many people think–people with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the qualities that en...
The <form> function() & .class web design conference 2011 on Aug 19, 2011 in Ventures conference FFC PWDO web design The <form> function() & .class Philippine Web Design Conference returns this September 10 & 11—yup, two days of workshops and plenary sessions tackling the future of web design from the industry’s finest talents, includin...
I’m going to write about the FFC, I promise… on Aug 5, 2011 in Ventures …But in the meantime: Go register for our MiniFFC next Thursday (beer! pizza! FFC tickets!) and the big FFC next September (workshops! networking! goodies! afterparty!) and read Mae’s post, ‘cause if both our blogs were on Tumblr I̵...
When I hit Save Draft in WordPress 3.1, I panicked. 3.2 fixed it. on Jul 27, 2011 in Hacking Away ui usability ux WordPress Here’s something I wrote a year ago: I panic when I hit Save Draft in WordPress & see the Publish button gets the same “pressed” visual effect. I switch tabs, then forget I’m just saving it, then what I see is the blue bu...
The cultural equivalent of dark matter on Jul 16, 2011 in Hacking Away Visualize Express fan fiction fandom harry potter social media social network TIME Magazine writes about fan fiction (with a timely Harry Potter slant, of course). I want so badly to quote the whole thing here (but long, 5 “pages” long) so I’ll just grab the snippet being passed around on Tumblr: Fan fiction...
“Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.” – Simon Dach on Jun 25, 2011 in Visualize Express design pattern poster quote Simon Dach wishlist ...
Kurt Andersen’s Words We Don’t Say on May 28, 2011 in Visualize Express writing In 1997, when I was first hired at New York magazine, Kurt Andersen, now a best-selling novelist and radio-show host, had just been fired as editor. Everybody was grieving about this, though not me, since I wouldn’t have had a job there otherwise.
