It took me some time, but the February photos have been uploaded! They’re mostly from our trip to North Carolina. http://photoalbum.kemosite.com/?p=89
has an awesome wife. Dinner was delicious, I should be unwell more often! # is looking forward to his kids’ birthday party tomorrow! # Chuck E. Cheese = CRAZY # 99 Red Balloons = GOOD. # is back to work today. # IS (*hobble*) HARD (*hobble*) AT (*hobble*) WORK, and needs a break soon. # A Heroes REPEAT?? NOOOOOOO!!! # is mostly recovered, I think. # is mellowing to radioioAmbient on iTunes. # who’s Patrick? Why’s he so happy? # ran out of T3’s, switched to extra strength… Not working so well… OW… # got a call from Virgin Mobile…
I’ve been reading up on the developing CSS3 spec and was intrigued when I found the re-introduction of the ‘font-size-adjust’ property. I love the idea of maximizing legibility in font substitutions. The biggest problem I found was, how is someone supposed to find the font aspect ratio? The key is finding the x-height. Here’s a tool to do it. https://kemosite.com/?page_id=64
is all done planning the kids birthday party. On to the chores… *sigh* # :: Me: It’s hard to be a good rapper. 4YO: All you need is enough paper! # is watching cars with the kids. # is watching “Cars” with the kids. # :: Good night! # :: Awake, kids are fed. Time to look at today’s tasks. # :: Pinch, punch, first day of the month! # Is distracting the kids to let the baby sleep. # is now located in: 289 Speers Rd # Has cracked open the chardonnay, waiting for dinner to finish cooking. #…
Here are some interesting logo design trends for 2009, so far. Logo Design Trends 2009 – Showcase | 1stwebdesigner – Love In Design.
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This post is pertanant only to people with mobile phones on the Virgin Canada mobile service. I learned something interesting when I tried to send myself a link to check out with my phone—It won’t work. Well, not without a little playing around with anyways. It turns out that all successful URLs served on my phone are being run through a Vmobile proxy. If you tell your mobile browser to “show URL”, you’ll see something like this: (Having uploaded the example image, I realize now that it’s difficult to see the address next to my semi-smirking face.) The full address…
Periodically, I like to revise my list of web safe fonts. I know that these lists exist all over the internet, but I like to keep my own records to reflect my own expectations. These results check against operating system font installations for Mac OS X 10.3+ and Windows XP. The web safe fonts are: Arial Arial Black Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Symbol (Interestingly, this is the only font result that isn’t also one of Microsoft’s Core fonts for the Web Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Webdings
Here’s a neat piece of typographic know-how. A mark that combines a question with an exclaimation. Interrobang – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.