Speak with conviction
“It is not enough these days to simply question authority. You got to speak with it, too.”
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The exciting part
Tell anybody you’re a sculptor and they’ll say, ‘Oh, how exciting, how wonderful.’
And I tend to say, ‘What’s so wonderful?’
It’s like being a mason, or a carpenter, half the time. But they don’t wish to hear that because they really only imagine the first part, the exciting part.
— Nina Holton
I’m afraid of what people will do with unlimited fonts on the web. I’m imagining sites that are zombie descendants of dead MySpace profiles.
Don’t stop
Too many entrepreneurs stop after they build the product. They think that building products is what makes them an entrepreneur. But entrepreneurship is about building businesses, and the product is just one part of that.
— Rob May on his blog post, Entrepreneurship is not sexy
Pixels from Portland
My home office in Portland. Yes, I have flannel slippers with penguins on them.
Previously on Blood
Moving day: Plotting in Portland
“He accidentally deleted 4 years worth of blogs of 300,000 people. Every single post overwrote with ‘Beware The Robots.’”
Watch this great presentation about Threadless’ transparency, accessibility & community.
Stupid grin
or: Geek in the Pink by Jason Mraz
Scrivs created a new design community called Drawar and asked members to link up their blog. So I did…
- scrivs: I’m loving Cut & Taste Chris.
- chris: Men love the pink.
Nerds & Geeks
- tyme: I’m fascinated by this self-called nerd community but the more I watch, the more I wonder the difference between a geek and a nerd?
- chris: The people who care about the difference are nerds ;)
Best of September 2009: Us
Cut & Taste is a little blog where my friends & I share our love of food. Since its redesign, the site has been getting link love on blogs, web design galleries & other agencies’ client emails. Recently, we were featured in Vandelay Design’s roundup, Best of September 2009.
And a few other places
- Web Design Trends for 2009 (Smashing Magazine)
- Beautiful 404 Error pages (Smashing Magazine)
- 36 Inspirational Web Designs (Static Romance)
- 11 Amazing Website Designs that Rocked January (Positive Space Blog)
- Blog Design Showcase (Traffikd)
- Best of Best WordPress 404 Error Page Designs (WP Beginner)
- 51 Amazing and Inspiring Blog Style Web Designs (Speckyboy Design Magazine)
Plotting in Portland
After living in California’s bay area for over two decades, I’m gonna try something different. Over the next week, I’ll be setting up a home office in Portland, Oregon. Expect more pictures from an actual camera once the dust has settled!
My goal of having a clear inbox is slipping away. Upon seeing my screen Brian says, “Your inbox looks like my spam box.”
Dear @kneath and other Firebug haters: I <3 you, but I'm sure we caked off that free & open-source extension big time the past few years.
My friend just said he has to go to a meeting. I almost forgot people had to do that.
QN5.com is featured in a list of 40 Inspiring Blog Designs. Easy.
QN5 Music in the spotlight
QN5 Music is featured in the Spotlight section of ExpressionEngine‘s Showcase Gallery. ExpressionEngine is the software behind QN5’s new website. We use it to manage our content, update the blog, run our forums, etc.
This is the 2nd ExpressionEngine site I’ve worked on to be featured in the Spotlight category. Whoever decides which sites get added there, I thank you! As per our agreement, the bribe will be sent via PayPal tonight.
iPhone typos
A conversation with Tonedeff from QN5 Music on whether they should do a video blog…
- chris: Figures it’s too much work for you guys
- chris: ... Figured*
- chris: Fucking iPhone
