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.

• September 12th, 2007

  Fastest. Frontpage. Ever.

  (Here’s the actual Digg story.)

• August 27th, 2007

  Ok, now store it in the mouse…

  The other day, I overheard an older relative refer to the act of copying and pasting something as “storing it in the mouse.” I had never thought of it that way before, but that is probably how it appears to new computer users. I know that when I press Ctrl+C, I automatically hold my hands [...]

• August 7th, 2007

  How to get hei…

  I was just about to search for how to get height of browser window, when Google suggested something much more worthy of my time:

• July 19th, 2007

  Paging Johnny…

  I just saw this ad next to a GMail message about ScribeFire: There must be a better method for finding an amnesic Johnny Depp than poorly targeted Google ads.

• May 1st, 2007

  Glowing recommendation

  Just found some new content for my About Me page, courtesy of Victor Agreda, Jr.: “The template on his blog kicks Safari in the nuts, runs like a coward, and leaves it writhing in pain without help.” (For the record, I gave my blog template a stern talking-to, and it has promised to stop doing [...]

• April 21st, 2007

  A day in the life of a Digger

  The whole thing is pretty funny, but I laughed out loud at around 18 seconds left:

• April 1st, 2007

  See you tomorrow

  Wow, the Internet gets annoying on April Fools day. The best April Fools jokes are subtle pranks, not long, drawn-out, unfunny “jokes,” and they do not include the phrase “this is not a joke.” I’m turning off my computer and I’ll come back online tomorrow when things have settled down.

• March 17th, 2007

  Linking so you don’t have to

  In recognition of Ze Frank‘s last show, I wanted to link to what I think is the funniest moment from any of his shows: Scrabble. Watch that, and I dare you to not laugh out loud about halfway through (you’ll know when it’s time).