Technology

The beauty of writing good XHTML is that it relieves me of my normal design duties. Design takes place in the creative side of my brain, whereas XHTML coding fully occupies the rational and logical half. After being mired in Photoshop for days and weeks on end, it’s so nice to debate if something should be an H3 or an H4 instead of manually kerning a logo for a half-hour until it’s perfect. The zen simplicity of beautiful and semantic XHTML somehow puts me into a trance-like state, clearing my mind of those dastardly misbehaving pixels who haunt my dreams at night.

And in other news …… I need to lay off the LSD!

For a new company, a good domain name is like an office on Madison Ave. (or the similar San Francisco equivalent!) and if you’re starting your company now or soon, you basically have four choices:

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Nick Denton’s first foray into the world of tech gossip is now live, and the site is called Valleywag, written by Nick Douglas of Blogebrity. I’m hoping that this blog on blogs is less lame that the dozens of other blog on blogs people have come up with, but we’ll just have to wait and see how it pans out. And what’s with the fuzzy pixel fonts in the logo? Not only did pixel fonts go out with the dodo, but fuzzy pixel fonts are the bane of every designer’s existence. Bane!

Big up to Nick since he writes about 9rules once in awhile. I’m expecting that courtesy to stop immediately, not only because I just busted his chops in this entry, but because he’s a big mothercuffer now and us little guys were his stepping stones. 🙂

I’m a little torn here, so I’m in need of some good comment-based advice — it’s regarding my impending purchase of a laptop, or should I say, a palm-top. I work from home, however I do travel 3-4 times per year to conferences and whatnot, and when I’m there I end up needing something to 1) surf the internet, 2) blog with, and 3) check Bloglines. I normally don’t do any real work at conferences besides soaking up all the information and rehashing it into weblog entries, so I used to own a bottom of the line, small, iBook G4, and that was perfect. The problem was, I never used any applications on it besides Safari or Mail, so the ~$1,000 purchase seemed like a bit of a waste to me. SXSW is coming up fast and since I sold that iBook a few months back, I’m now in the market for “something” to surf the web and blog with. And therein lies the dilemma 😉

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