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Latest In Anti-Theft Technology

jasonjcrowther — Mon, 07 May 2007 11:03:34 +0000

(Via the TechEBlog, via Digg) the Brief Safe. How clever! They’re a pair of fake tighty whitey underpants with a secret compartment for hiding your valuables. Nothing special there, we’ve all seen clothing with special pockets like that before. The Brief Safe goes a step farther by adding a realistic looking skid mark on the hind quarters. If I was a burglar, rifling through your drawers, I’d pass those over, for sure!

New Design Methodology: Live Redesigns

jasonjcrowther — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:53:42 +0000

Eh? What’s a Live Redesign? Its pretty simple. Blow away your current CSS styles and let your audience live with the unstyled content as you work out the new design. I saw it first on Simple Bits, but now other players are giving it a go.

I’m not sure if I’m brave enough to follow in their footsteps, but it might be a nice kick in the pants to get the process rolling and follow it through to completion. I have a vast collection of 50-70% complete designs that I either lose interest in, hate after staring at them for a while, or just never have the time to finish.

Flickr and Del.icio.us now in my sidebar

jasonjcrowther — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:09:49 +0000

If you haven’t noticed already (or you keep up to date via RSS), I’ve wired in Flickr photos and my latest Del.icio.us links. Things are coming together nicely now. I’ve gotta put my design hat back on for the next step: figuring some navigation for the rest of non-blog (resume, portfolio, running stuff, etc). Stay tuned!

Interesting, Web 2.0 Color Pallete

jasonjcrowther — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:28:16 +0000

Modern Life Is Rubbish had a quick round up of colors made popular by the so-called Web 2.0 sites. Hmm, I think I might borrow a couple of them for my upcoming website redesign.

Mmmm. del.icio.us…

jasonjcrowther — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 03:47:00 +0000

Ok, I’m not making any progress on my master plan to reinvent my website. In my grand vision, I’d like to use a single home brew tagging system to cover my blog, links, and photo gallery. But lack of energy and time pushed the delivery date some time into 2010, if make it a rush job at the pace that I’m going.

So, I conceded and decided to try to use del.icio.us to keep track of my links. I actually really liked their idea from the start. My cop out reason for not using them was that I could never remember just where the periods were in their URL. But some time between the last time I checked and now, they made it so you can hit them delicious.com too.

I’ve started the thankless task of moving my bookmarks in. This also gave me a chance to mess around with the new Firefox cousin, Flock. It has direct integration with del.icio.us, flickr and some web blog software (unfortunately, not pivot, though…) Its kinda nice, but I’m not sure its got enough extra stuff to make me switch from vanilla Firefox (which has del.icio.us plug-in of its own). Plus, it has a gesture plugin like Firefox (which I can’t live without); minus, I have to configure it to use my gestures and the configuration interface is pretty different.

To start, I’ve published my running routes, a task that’s been on my to-do list forever. I’m already liking del.icio.us’s neat feature that gives you easy type and remember URL’s like http://del.icio.us/jasoncrowther/routes. That’s a feature I’ll have to borrow when I get around to my home brew tag thingy eventually.

Over the next weeks, I’m gonna try to move the rest of my links in. We’ll see if I still like it after the first couple of hundred links…