Tip of the Quill: A Journal

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Talking with Todd Dominey, and the malaise of March.

So I’m reading this great AIGA LA interview with Todd Dominey and I stumble across the following passage: Q: You’ve become a pretty accomplished scripter, programmer, tweaker … for Flash in particular. Does the technical fluency your output requires feel at odds with the mindset you need to be a creative designer? Here’s what I’ve […]

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Wait a second…

So I’m sitting here in the apartment, and there’s a light snow outside, and I find myself wondering, “Hey! Why is it so bloody cold in here?” And then I realized that it’s been oddly quiet all day. As in, the radiators haven’t been banging and clanging. What. The. Hell.

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Waxing the sideblog, waning the mainblog.

So I mentioned Jason Kottke’s jump to full-time blogging in passing over in the sideblog, and I was going to let it go at that. Yet kottke.org kept popping up in my thoughtflow here this week. for a number of different reasons. The biggest reason is that I’m contemplating ripping off his posting style. See, […]

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Welcome to Tip of the Quill 2.0.

At long last, it’s time to finally whip the sheet off the new version of the ol’ weblog. I still need to format the comments and get the archives up and running, but some of the new features are now operational. These include: More spam-resistant comments The new weblog is powered by Movable Type 3.15, […]

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What’s going down.

I figured since things have been quiet as a tomb around here lately, I’d let you all in on what I’ve been up to. In addition to my usual client work, I’ve been hammering on a bunch of things – some of which are big, some are small, and others are totally irrelevant. World of […]

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I fall off the Net for two days and all hell breaks loose.

Wow, I can’t leave you guys alone for a minute. I took two days off from being online and Six Apart does indeed acquire LiveJournal (with a press release, a FAQ, a professional network introduction, and, of course, numerous weblog posts), Bill Gates calls those of us in the Creative Commons camp communists and the […]

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Resolved.

Wow, that title works in so many ways. First off, we have two new servers up and running, which should help solve some long-running issues on our end. That’s not why we’ve been down lately – that was primarily due to the massive ice storm that rendered huge chunks of Ohio powerless for a week […]

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Slightly funny postscript.

I’m sitting here in Seattle’s in downtown Wooster, where I came first thing this morning to start scouring the web for info on Laura. We just found out she’s OK, and as a result I’m sitting here with my first-ever decaf coffee in my hand. This one’s for you, chica.

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Two for two!

I just got word that Laura checked in with the US Consulate at 4AM our time. She’s fine — shaken but fine. Now I’m just waiting to hear from her. Thank you, Lord, for answering our prayers. This is the best Christmas present I could have ever hoped for.

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One down, one to go.

No sooner did I post that, then I swung by Shana’s weblog and saw that she was OK. Whew. OK, so half of my missing friends are okay, and we’re on high watch duty for the other one. Please keep Laura in your prayers, OK?

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