I have redesigned this site several times over the last four years and I always thought it was a bit of a shame that the designs had to disappear from the internet after the new design is applied. So it has been in the back of my mind for a while to convert my old [...]

WordPress Plugins by Adrian Hanft I am proud to announce the release of my first WordPress plugin. The plugin is called Font Burner Control Panel and it allows you to easily add any of the 1000+ fonts from Font Burner to your site. The thing that is exciting to me is that this plugin lets [...]

Here is a list of music that I really enjoyed in 2006: Begin to Hope, by Regina Spektor Wincing the Night Away, by the Shins Magic Potion, by The Black Keys Ben Kweller, by Ben Kweller The Information, by Beck Wolfmother Sunlandic Twins, by Of Montreal Electric President Gulag Orkestar, by Beirut Garden Ruin, by [...]

I thought we had put the car accident in our past, but a couple letters last week brought it back to the forefront of our minds. There are some big developments actually. First, Betsy got a subpoena to testify in a case of the City of Evans vs. Eliza Hill. We were surprised to learn [...]

Eric Karjaluoto of ideasonideas.com wrote an interesting essay about how in the American media there is no longer a distinction between entertainment and news. Eric says, “…to the American media, news and entertainment, or even larger yet, fact and fiction, were no longer separate entities. The two had collided and left a free-for-all, in which [...]

Betsy got back from the bank today with bad news. “Don’t be mad. You know how the drive-thru at the bank is very narrow? Well, I kind of scraped up the side of the car.” As I hang my head in my hands and got ready to surpress the rage, I hear those two words: [...]

Businessweek.com has a good interview with Mena Trott, founder of Movable Type. Mena is a former graphic designer, and the interview talks about some of the design challenges that are faced by the maker of the leading blog software in the world: Movable Type. The highlight of the interview is when she is asked about [...]

After reading the airplane conveyor belt puzzle on Kottke, I was reminded of a puzzle I thought of a long time ago that is pretty similar. Here is the puzzle: You are driving a car at 50mph with the passenger window down. You look out the window and see a bird flying next to you [...]

It is human nature to want to upgrade everything you can. We want the best. We want more. Faster. Bigger. Louder. Cleaner. Hotter. Colder. New and improved. While some people spend their entire life pushing for these things, most of us eventually realize that this isn’t healthy. While it is fun for a while, the [...]

This post isn’t really about Elvis, its about found photography. We have been throwing around the idea of creating a photo blog for a while, and I want to get some feedback. A few years ago, I found myself in a dumpster taking photos of some lovely textures (What? You have never been in a [...]