the Daily Report

  • Lower East Side Lit

    Lower East Side Lit

    Monday, July 28, at 7:00 PM, in the company of my fellow field testers, I’ll be giving a reading at Coudal Partners’s Field Tested Books Live. Join us on the rooftop of the Delancey at…

  • Here it comes again

    Here it comes again

    Coming Tuesday 29 July to A List Apart: the second annual survey for people who make websites.

  • Protest the Orphan Works Bills

    Protest the Orphan Works Bills

    You think your design work gets stolen now? Wait ’til infringement becomes the law of the land. The Orphan Works Act defines an “orphan work” as any copyrighted work whose author any infringer says he…

  • Underwear

    Underwear

    One of my happiest memories is the day I quit my job. No longer was I a mere office shlub, meekly thanking life for the cold mashed potatoes it deigned to drop onto my plate.…

  • Your US tax dollars at work

    Your US tax dollars at work

    The Computing Community Consortium “supports the computing research community in creating compelling research visions and the mechanisms to realize these visions” and steals copyrighted design layouts from A List Apart magazine.

  • Customer support on the march

    Customer support on the march

    You know that new thing where you call customer support and a robot tells you that there’s no need to wait; just leave your phone number and you’ll be called back in three minutes? So…

  • Not at his desk

    Not at his desk

    Have left town for a funeral. Will be gone a week. Updates may be sparse.

  • Around the Word with Web Talent

    Around the Word with Web Talent

    My first book didn’t sell very well but it had an effect on people’s hearts. Web designers around the world circulated a single copy of Taking Your Talent to the Web, adding their autographs, drawings,…

  • ALA No. 262: Binding & Subversion

    ALA No. 262: Binding & Subversion

    In Issue No. 262 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Ryan Irelan invites us to collaborate and connect with Subversion, and Christophe Porteneuve explains how to get out of binding situations in…

  • Lube Tube

    Lube Tube

    Friedrolling: vt. Gratuitously posting Basecamp referral links disguised as tweets or blog posts.

  • Office Koan No. 37

    Office Koan No. 37

    Speakeasy will only honor my request to discontinue DSL service in my old office if I call the company from my old phone number, which I no longer have access to because I moved out.

  • Life Needs a Rewind Button

    Life Needs a Rewind Button

    The new office is so new to me that I entered the address incorrectly while ordering CS3 suites for the studio. Amazon is consequently rush-delivering Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro, and Fireworks to…

  • What happened here

    What happened here

    This gently declining space that has been nothing but an office since December and will soon be nothing at all to me, this place I will empty and vacate in the next few hours, has…

  • AEA Boston 2008 session notes

    AEA Boston 2008 session notes

    Linked session notes and downloads from An Event Apart Boston 2008.

  • So long, Boston. We’ll be back.

    So long, Boston. We’ll be back.

    An Event Apart Boston 2008 is over but the memories and photos linger on. Eric and I started An Event Apart because we saw the need for a live, concentrated, learning and sharing experience about…