When I lived in Ann Arbor, I liked the principles of the co-housing communities there — push the cars to the edges; create actually useful common spaces both to make it easier to live in a smaller space (community workshop; spare guest rooms) and to help build community amongst neighbors (large community kitchen and occasional […]

The folks from my favorite email list host provider CampaignMonitor have taken a cue from the well-established Web Standards Project (which has had considerable success at getting browsers to act more alike) and launched today the Email Standards Project. I’m not the biggest fan of HTML email but having recently dealt with issues around […]

Firebug is one of those rare tools that so fundamentally changes the way you do something (in this case web development, especially javascript) that, once you get used to it, you can’t quite remember what life was like without it.
As a quick example, today I found myself faced with the necessity of doing […]

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Thanksgiving Leftovers (annotated), originally uploaded by sstrudeau.

We again decided to avoid the insane holiday travel madness and stay in NYC for Thanskgiving, Our friend Dave came over and we had a mini-feast.
At some point, […]