The one thing that I keep telling people when speaking about building websites is that the actual website and functionality is not the project, but that in most cases it is about helping an organization present their work to the world, and I love the challenge.

Wersquo;ve just moved from a text link based portfolio to images of our work, which is why I decided to link to this in the first place.

An animated series (in classic Hanna-Barbera style) about a series of pointless -yet hilarious- conversations between the hosts. It started as a comedy audio show in the UK but was later adapted into the animated television version by HBO, debuting in 2010 (just about a month ago). Do not miss.

The main navigation that fades in and out as your cursor moves over the header is very interesting, it almost feels like a game. Notice the side menu and the centered comments layout too.

Not only do I like this for the many interesting ideas presented from a blog layout point of view, but I really appreciate the content here. Donrsquo;t miss his Creativity post, which seems to be the only piece in which Kanye writes, yet there are no actual words rendered, itrsquo;s another image.

(Via Derek Punsalan)

Mark Pilgrimrsquo;s Dive Into HTML5 has already proven extremely useful to me through the website and the published chapters (on HTML5 video in this case). Mark is a great writer and this is one book I canrsquo;t wait to read.nbsp;Pre-order it now.

The other book is Craig Hockenberryrsquo;s iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual. What you should know: Craig is one of the first iPhone developers and is behind the amazing Twitteriffic, his track record is fantastic and his website Furbonbsp;is a valuable resource. SUffice to say, the book should cover everything you need to know about this.

I just lost two years of comments and files hosted here. Long story.

My desktop blogging apps had my posts (from the last two years) backed up which Irsquo;ve now just re published (so I apologize for all the old content showing up in the feed).

Irsquo;ll be tweaking the site and going through small problems here and there, but for the most part the site is the same, except with less comments.

Live and learn.

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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However, there are others who feel differently about it, like Colin who wonders if itrsquo;s worth supporting the service now seeing as how Yahoo! is tanking. Itrsquo;s an interesting argument for sure, and hersquo;s asking for feedback via a video:

What do you think?

FAIL.

There are no words to describe the awesomeness of this music video. With over 3000 pictures taken to make it work, it really is a damn well-executed concept.

I donrsquo;t usually try out Firefox themes. For ever i have used takebacktheweb.orgrsquo;s mac theme, but for some reason i decided to try out Personas. Perhaps because they arenrsquo;t themes as much as they are skinshellip; this extension really customizes Firefoxrsquo;s chrome, mostly by adding a background image to it, but im pretty happy with what it does, it goes well with my menubar.
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the quot;personaquot; yoursquo;re looking at now is called Firefox Pipes.
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Also, the website I have open is one of my latest designs.

Thankfully there is a very promising solution which already lets me do much of what I want, Boxee. A fork of what originally was XMBC (Xbox Media Center) has turned out to be pretty amazing. Itrsquo;s a cross platform full screen interface for your computer (or tv via apple tv) which not only hooks up to the media stored in your hard drives but it connects to the cloud and letrsquo;s you access streaming video from torrents and television networks, music from last.fm, pictures from Flickr and basically anything you can find a feed for. It doesnrsquo;t do web browsing just yet, but Irsquo;m sure it will, soon enough.

The software is free, therersquo;s a great community around it and it keeps getting better every day. Therersquo;s not much else to say about it, it works great and is a dream come true for me and Irsquo;m sure many others.

Itrsquo;s always hard knowing how to interact with people you donrsquo;t know but share common interests. I find itrsquo;s hard to really make long lasting impressions, which makes having memorable and useful business cards at hand really important.

I keep meeting people but itrsquo;s always so hard to stay in touch afterwards (except for when people are on twitter, which really should simply be a rule if you really want to build relationships and stay in touch).

Irsquo;m working on improving the way I handle myself amongst geeks like me, mostly because I really love it. The Toronto Twestival canrsquo;t come soon enough.

Putting up wall decals in our loft:

Some clutter in our place:

Our wedding day:

Downtown Toronto:

Biking in august:

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Rocks, lake amp; volcano:

Funny face:

Easter in Antigua:

Panama city from Casco Viejo:

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This all makes me want to get an actual Polaroid camera. nbsp;nbsp;

The earthquake took place near the Poas volcano and therersquo;s an impressive Youtube video from one of the tv stations that really captures what happened (and is still happening).

Therersquo;s a lot of coverage from ticos on Twitter reporting live, which is amazing. Technology has come such a long way for this to be a reality (getting reports live from people experiencing it). Irsquo;m in the loop even though Irsquo;m nowhere close to Costa Rica right now.

The highways are collapsing with traffic making it impossible to get around the capital. Therersquo;s reports of casualties already, people are being sent home by employers and there are still smaller earthquakes happening three hours after the first one. Newspapers websites and local internet is saturated, the biggest newspaper in the country set up a live chat on their home page for people to report on and others to stay in the loop.

Irsquo;ll be keeping an eye on twitter for more reports and information.

We are looking for something more interesting though, rather than just playful cute desings.
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We experienced issues with the last set we got (which werenrsquo;t from the magic pony), they would not really stick to the walls and actually started falling off the day we put them up.

Donrsquo;t do this at home kids. It may result in your laptop dying. That glass of wine sitting on the edge of the case and the laptop is on top of a few books. All because i wanted to document my odd placement of wine glasses while working on my computer

Their first album was released a few months ago, available on their website as a $5 download and on iTunes as well. Not only that but their first music video is a work of art, set in a simple stage with Francis pulling some awesome dance moves reminiscent of Princersquo;s style and with live audio, itrsquo;s so good they made it available as an HD download.

Their music is lovely and certainly unique, electronic lovers will appreciate the beats and rhythms they produce. Francis voice gives them a very unique sound and brings some classic stuff to their show.

All in all they definitely are a band Irsquo;ll be keeping an eye out for.

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to get tickets for telefon tel aviv and matthew dear and it was great. Two bands which Irsquo;ve followed for a good while, stuff I love, obviously I was very excited to see them. The venue was pretty hot, itrsquo;s apparently a new spot in t.o. (wrongbar), and it worked.

Telefon tel aviv have been doing some really interesting things with their music, mixing lots of influences and ideas to create really compelling sounds.

Matthew was only playing his old songs (which were great for me). Hersquo;s such a class act. I love the guy.

• It doesnrsquo;t seem to use the Keychain for password storage. I had to retype my twitter.com credentials, it should have pulled them from keychain.


• Irsquo;d love to have a stop/reload button instead of two separate ones.


• There is no Import bookmarks feature, so you canrsquo;t easily transfer them from safari/firefox.


• I love the thumbnails it adds to google search, but they load very slowly.


• I wish it would open new tabs to the right of the current one, right next to it. This isnrsquo;t a feature in any other browser I know of, but you can do it in safari through saft and in firefox through tab mix plus.


• It seems to read cookies from safari. I didnrsquo;t have to login to flickr, nice!.


• The make text bigger feature is kind of a letdown coming from firefox and itrsquo;s kickass zoom feature (it zooms images too).


• I want to double click on a dmg file in the downloads window and have it open the image file, like safari does.


• It comes with Google Gears. This is great!


• Full screen browsing is awesome (although it crashes when going into it if therersquo;s browsa plugins open).


• It seems like url history doesnrsquo;t work. I visit a URL, and when i type it in the address bar again, it doesnrsquo;t remember Irsquo;ve been there and wonrsquo;t show it to me in the pop up.

In general it feels really good. Having more than one site open takes some getting used to, but it works really well for reading feeds specially, it opens links on the main window, so I can keep scrolling down without worrying about switching no tabs.

The other noticeable feature in it is the CoverFlow view of links on a page (in the screenshot in the bottom center), which is cool but actually not that useful for me.

All in all, I really like it.