Less Talk, More Do

I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• August 14th, 2007

  One year at AOL

  Today is the one-year anniversary of my first day at AOL/Netscape. More importantly, I’ve also been blogging for a little over a year. This means that I can start taking the lazy way out and post

• July 12th, 2007

  ScribeFire Updates

  Some updates on the ScribeFire project that I’m part of: There’s a new website up at ScribeFire.com – a WordPress blog with a clean, writing-themed template A Support Forum has been launched for ScribeFire help and discussion. We’re on the verge of releasing our next version – it will be mostly small fixes and preparations [...]

• May 31st, 2007

  6 – 5 – 7

  I’m taking some time off from blogging… I’ll be back on: 6 – 5 – 7 (Check back then… :-)

• May 17th, 2007

  Ambition

  I’ve decided that my current goal in life is to someday be cool enough to have a guest blogger on my site. That’s when you know that you’ve “made it.” If you’d like to be my guest blogger, send my a few examples of posts you’d write. Ideally, they should be about me and either [...]

• April 27th, 2007

  Let’s see if this works…

  Love him or hate him, controversial blog-boss Jason Calacanis knows his linkbait. Brooklyn-born Calacanis, formerly the editor of the Silicon Alley Reporter, made a “how-to linkbait me” post on his popular blog, which he writes with his trusty bulldog Toro by his side. (Jason is more recently known for being the impetus behind the relaunch [...]

• April 26th, 2007

  Feedback

  I’m kind of bored, so I’m pulling out the old standby that is almost guaranteed to provide some moderately interesting comments – a reader survey! The latest check I did of feed subscribers numbered in the low triple-digits, and I’m curious about what kind of people are reading what I write. So I submit these [...]

• March 29th, 2007

  ScribeFire 1.4.0.1 Released

  ScribeFire 1.4.0.1 is now available for download from Mozilla Addons. Changes since version 1.4 include: Spanish translation Support for special characters in Blogger passwords (as mentioned here) Added detailed error messages for when adding a Blogger account fails (ScribeFire, previously named “Performancing for Firefox,” is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and [...]

• February 26th, 2007

  Choose your titles carefully, part deux

  Sometimes the pendulum swings the other way: Google in video talks with media biggies at The Blog Herald.