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.

• June 5th, 2007

  Netscape Navigator 9.0 Beta Released

  The long national nightmare is over: the beta of Netscape Navigator 9.0 has finally been released to the public. Read the official announcement here. Read a more informal introduction to the browser here. Download it here. Read the release notes here. Discuss it here.

• May 30th, 2007

  Flickrdog

  This is Sam, the resident pet at the Yellowstone Basin Inn in Gardiner, Montana, where we stayed for a night on our way back from Yellowstone. (A very nice place, by the way. I highly recommend it.) After a week away from the Internet, his Flickr-colored tags seemed to be saying, “Come back, Chris… Come [...]

• May 2nd, 2007

  On Digg and “Revolution”

  Jeff Harrell sums up my thoughts on the matter better than I could have. “What happened last night wasn’t a revolution, [...] what happened last night is that a bunch of kids on the playground banded together to beat up another kid, a kid they saw as richer or more powerful or more snotty than [...]

• 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 5th, 2007

  49 important people and a porn model

  PC World’s list of the 50 most important people on the Web that came out today includes at #50 Tila Tequila, a model whose claim to fame is having almost 2 million MySpace friends. I mildly disagree with a few of the other choices like including Nick Denton/Gawker Media (45) without mentioning Jason or Weblogs [...]