Buy my book!

That's right people the time has finally come.  Blog Design Solutions will be released on February 20th; now is your time to pre-order your shiny copy.  Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Michael Heilemann, John Oxton, David Powers, Rich Rutter, Phil Sherry and I worked pretty hard to craft this into a useful book.  Let us know if we succeeded.

From the publishers site:

In this book, a team of renowned web designers take you through the ins and outs of putting together great blogs. They waste no time harking on about the philosophy of blogs, or the community behind them. Instead, they get straight to the practical details, showing how to set up a basic blog in some of the world's most popular blogging engines – Movable Type, ExpressionEngine, WordPress, and Textpattern.

That's right, you heard it here first... I am a 'renowned' web designer!  Another phrase for the ol' resume.

Help a brother out, my baby needs... stuff.

Man am I wordy.

For those of you who don't get enough of my rambling here at Sillyness, there is an interview I did up at Godbit.

I want to thank Nathan for asking me to do the interview and then putting up with my inability to sit down and do the blasted thing!  A word for the faint of heart, I talk about my faith in the interview.

Well look at that!

I am not sure what is up, but the version of Webkit that I am using right now allows custom styling to be applied to buttons and such.

Does this mean that stylable form elements are finally landing in Safari?

Working with Google Earth - Part 1

So I have been working on a little side project that involves Google Earth, and I thought I would share my findings with you all in the form of this little tutorial.

One of the most frustrating things about working with Google's technology is the lack of good, clear documentation.  Most of your time is taken up with searchng for answers through a trial and error type of programming.

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My MWSF Predictions

Yes, I am going to prognosticate for you all now, and tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt what Apple will announce today:

1. Apple will be releasing new products and/or services that you will immediately want, but not have the money to purchase.
2. The machine you just bought three days ago, yeah that one; completely and utterly useless now, you must upgrade, obey your Jobsian overlord!
3. Steve Jobs will mispronounce at least one word in the keynote, probably the name of some large jungle cat.

That's it folks, have a nice day.

So Fresh, Exciting! for WordPress

This is a place holder until I have time to flesh out a proper description.

You can find the announcement and download over here

Believe for WordPress

This is a place holder until I have time to flesh out a proper description.

You can find the announcement and download over here