Archive for August, 2007

My Belruel Chords

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Tycho from Penny Arcade wrote an infectious ballad about the death of  a game character called My Belruel. A good place to hear the song is the Wired article about the Penny Arcade crew.
It kept me awake the first night I heard it until I pulled out my guitar and learned to play it. I couldn’t […]

Your hitcounter is so Web 1.0

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

One of the first things I did when I made my first website was to add a hit counter to the bottom of every page. Do you remember seeing those? They were little tags that said: This page has been viewed 000210 times since January 11, 1994. Every time you went to the page or […]

Projects finished in August

Monday, August 27th, 2007

August was a busy month for building new sites. Even better, it was a busy month for finishing sites. As any software developer will tell you, you can add a hundred features to a product but the most important one of all is the last one.

The new site is now open

Monday, August 13th, 2007

This was by far the fastest site rebuild I’ve ever done. Chalk one up for motivation and free time. On a whim last week I gutted the Gloryfish.org domain of three+ years of cruft that had been building up. After three full versions of the site, each with a different purpose, there was a lot […]

New feeds: August

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

I think I'll start doing a semi regular update on new feeds I've added to my reader. I love discovering new cool things so maybe you will too.
Webcomics
KittyBot - http://www.kitty-bot.com/rss.phpThe title should be all you need. Kitties? Bots? Sign me up. It's actually much better than that even. Gorgeous artwork, engaging writing, and some really […]