For such a bland topic, the past few years have seen a lot of discussion about marking up quotes in HTML. Why? Because this is one area where the HTML spec seems to have let a lot of folks down. Senseless limitations and broken backwards compatibility have left many scratching their heads and some rising…

I had a hell of a time getting out of bed in the morning when I was a teenager. I missed the bus frequently and made most mornings frustrating affairs for my mother. I was tired, I assumed, because I also had a hard time getting to sleep at night. I chalked this all up…

At the top of the year, I wrote a bit about some of the things I wanted to accomplish, improve, or just change in 2012. Since this is apparently no longer a blog about web design, let’s talk about me some more.

I’m gonna gloss over the part where I attempt to explain or apologize for my lack of blogging and get right to it. You know.. before I don’t feel like writing any more.

Let’s begin with this: I love Gmail. When it hit the streets 5 years ago it changed everything from the way I communicate to the way I store information. It is, like most things, not perfect. Fortunately, there are things we can do to inch it a bit closer to perfection. I’ve recently made some…

I’ve always been a fan of those colorful “business culture” turns of phrase you hear so often in conference halls and agency pitches. You know, the ones that seek to reduce complex social, fiscal and strategic concepts to snappy, often vulgar vagaries. As designers become entrepreneurs become businessmen, they’re more likely hear and use these…