Charlie Park

Man. Everything’s closing early today.

Dec 31st

Possible server issues …

Dec 31st

S’amazing how much more focused I am when I have caffeine.

Dec 31st

Giddy and panicking.

Dec 31st

Zombies vs Ninjas (courtesy Songbird)

Dec 31st

3 Strands

Dec 30th

“Why take the time to make a rational sales pitch if...”
— Rob Walker

Dec 30th

Wooden iPhone cases. Beautiful.

Dec 30th

Dec 30th

Head cold. Ugh.

Dec 29th

Using prototype.js v1.5.0

Dec 28th

Celebrating a little javascript victory. A *very* little victory. But it’s mine.

Dec 28th

Enjoying NPR’s Live in Concert recordings. Right now: Andrew Bird (http://tinyurl.com/2c9ckm)

Dec 28th

Writing an e-mail to someone I “know” at Apple, about a killer feature idea for the...

Dec 28th

Wine and chocolate-covered pretzels at 10:00pm means that my eyes pop open at 3:20am. Apparently.

Dec 28th

Tony has a nice piece up, How to communicate with me effectively. Some choice bits: This is an open...

Dec 28th

Changing venues. I’m thinking … Barnes & Nobel?

Dec 27th

Lame design decision: http://highrisehq.com doesn’t have a convenient “Log In”...

Dec 27th

Just went through PearBudget criticals with Sarah. Now trying to push through the list, at Cosi.

Dec 27th

My poor prioritization skills are really getting hammered home. Monotask, where are you?

Dec 27th

Keep it simple, stupid

Dec 26th

Seth's Blog: Exclusion

Dec 26th

Random Thoughts while Watching TV

Dec 26th

Klaipeda Regular (via Griskevicius Jurgis)

Dec 26th

Merry Christmas, all.

Dec 25th

Heading north on 95. Should be there in an hour.

Dec 24th

Finished opening presents with my family. For once, we’re early. Now to get the sleigh all...

Dec 24th

Going to bed, after some *stellar* user testing. Wow. Lots to think about.

Dec 24th

Working up a PearBudget-things-that-need-doin’ list with Sarah.

Dec 24th

Looking forward to input from @armisteadbooker.

Dec 23rd

Writing copy. Wishing I could say it’s brilliant. Trying to not be a perfectionist.

Dec 23rd

Setting up Google Analytics stuff.

Dec 23rd

Just got a link from Posh CSS. Rock. It crashed my tumblr account. Crap. Just set up the...

Dec 23rd

“When you want more, it’s because you want to enjoy it....”
— John Maeda

Dec 23rd

“Text is the most efficient and least disruptive means for us...”
— Words Words Words (Erika Hall)

Dec 23rd

“There’s being right and then there’s being awesome. Design...”
— 24 ways: A Gift Idea For Your...

Dec 23rd

It’s a shame that the whole “dropped-vowel” thing is so passé. Simplr is a really...

Dec 23rd

Front page tweaks are like a death of a thousand cuts.

Dec 23rd

Anybody who wants to do live user testing on PearBudget, shoot me an e-mail. Arlington, VA: 12/23;...

Dec 22nd

PearBudget Live User Testing (Arlington, VA...

Dec 22nd

Second page: Oh. That’s not good.

Dec 22nd

First page: CLEAR!

Dec 22nd

Just downloaded Safari for Windows to run some cross-browser testing. Worried about what I might...

Dec 22nd

At the Arlington County Central Public Library, working. Happy they allow coffee in the building.

Dec 22nd

It’s amazing what a little caffeine and positive user feedback will do for you.

Dec 22nd

The Anatomy of Web Fonts

Dec 22nd

font-size-adjust in Firefox 3

Dec 22nd

Wexelblat Disaster

Dec 22nd

Let's Talk About x, Baby

Get ready for some type-nerd-ery. People in my shoes have a bit of a problem, and it all comes...

Dec 22nd

fonts without font-size-adjust

Dec 22nd

fonts with font-size-adjust

Dec 22nd

Microformats in Firefox 3

Dec 22nd

Online and offline events in Firefox 3

Dec 22nd

Unobtrusive inline javascript sparklines

Dec 22nd

How do I make a piece of text in HTML...

Dec 21st

The Easiest Way To Make HTML Text...

Dec 21st

Developer Notes for Prototype.js

Dec 21st

Just realized: I should have brought DOM Scripting with me on the Christmas roadtrip. Dagnabbit.

Dec 21st

Working at Murky Coffee.

Dec 21st

How do you tag?

Dec 21st

Be Transparent So Your Fans Can Advocate For...

Dec 21st

Be smart about our technical debt

Dec 21st

Come on, Wired. You’re smarter than this. Putting ads...

Dec 21st

John Maeda to be RISD's Next President

Dec 21st

Watch

The original is here, via waxy.org, but I like this one more.

Dec 21st

Customer Service is the New Marketing

Dec 20th

Now … more coffee, and then killing some bugs.

Dec 20th

Alright. Posted. Feels good to be posting to the PearBudget blog. Really, thanks to Tumblr for being...

Dec 20th

$30 a Day

Dec 20th

Just lost a good (long) blog post when I open-apple-7’d it, instead of shift-7’d it to...

Dec 20th

True Story

Charlie: Is it 'distractible' or 'distractable'?
Sarah: I'm not sure. Why don't you look it up?
Charlie: [opens up wiktionary]
Charlie: What was the word?

Dec 20th

Dead simple IP to Country in Rails

Dec 20th

I woke up with Tropical-Iceland (The Fiery Furnaces) in my head, and it’s now playing. Song #3...

Dec 20th

One of the nice things about camping out on a Pandora station is that you get to know the playlist....

Dec 20th

An article on the MoMA's logo redesign [NYT...

Dec 20th

via Cameron Moll

Dec 20th

@mringlein - Amen.

Dec 20th

Garbby!

Dec 20th

Emil gets it. Let browser makers run loose with implementing new features, based on feedback from...

Dec 19th

Looks like I got 6 done by 3:02. Of course, they were the low-hanging fruit. On to the tougher ones.

Dec 19th

The goal: 5 tickets down by 3:00. Stay tuned.

Dec 19th

@brownpau - likewise. I like “friendumblr’d”

Dec 19th

The Simple Dollar » How To Balance Your...

Dec 19th

Doing the Right Thing

Dec 19th

24 ways: Christmas Is In The AIR

Dec 19th

Pandora hates a slow EVDO. Ironically, it just got better. Until I typed that last sentence. Then it...

Dec 19th

via serpentinewall.wm.edu

Dec 19th

The Coventry University Phoenix, via The Ministry of Type,...

Dec 19th

@brownpau - I accidentally did just that a week ago. It got messy, right quick. Also: Tumblr? Rules....

Dec 19th

Split and Merge PDFs

Dec 18th

Today’s work music: Lord of the Rings soundtrack. It’s like Dvořák, John Williams, and...

Dec 18th

The Sound of Inevitable Doom! (via Michael Heilemann)

Dec 17th

Russell Davies spoke at Widgety Goodness, a gathering on widget development, and he came up with a...

Dec 17th

Failed UF Logo Design, generic KU logo design, successful Rutgers logo design — tmcw

Dec 17th

FFFFOUND!

Dec 17th

“Don’t confuse intent to use with [actual] use.”
— Jan Chipchase - Future...

Dec 17th

Listening to Gogol Bordello, from All Songs Considered’s “Live in Concert”...

Dec 17th

Trying to log enough time on the Pear that I can play Settlers tonight.

Dec 16th

FFFFOUND!

Dec 16th

The Simple Dollar » A Frugal Man’s Christmas...

Dec 16th

Starbucked -Taylor Clark - Book Review - New...

Dec 16th

You know what makes a nice break from coding? Chopping wood. Really.

Dec 15th

Squeezing a few more drops of productivity blood out of the turnip that is my brain.

Dec 15th

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the...”
— Mark Twain (for Peter)

Dec 14th

Writing Christmas cards? Not my strong suit.

Dec 14th

The key question: “What would *I* want it to do?”

Dec 14th

How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to...

Dec 14th

Kleptones Live

Dec 14th

“Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is...”
— Fred (Mr.) Rogers

Dec 13th

The Role of Software and the Importance of...

Dec 13th

Sarah made cookies!

Dec 13th

“Every time we make a purchase that doesn’t have real meaning...”
— The Simple Dollar » The...

Dec 12th

Oooh. I’ve got the name for Justin’s and my Mates-of-State- / Matt-&-Kim-esque...

Dec 12th

Pots of coffee drunken in the last 24 hours: 2

Dec 12th

“The details are not the details. They make the design.”
— Charles Eames, via Joshua...

Dec 12th

“Nothing punches up a joke like a well-timed spit take from...”
— Twitter / Matt Haughey

Dec 12th

Currently: PearBudget strategzing, in the basement coffeehouse / office, with Sarah. Thinking about...

Dec 12th

@mogrify - I think I stole it from them! I might have tweaked it a little(?), and they might be...

Dec 12th

Decaf == I can drink as much as I want.

Dec 11th

Rubynoob How To Deploy your first rails app...

Dec 11th

Assert valid markup

Dec 11th

Hitting the wall.

Dec 11th

Dark Duomo (via Stuck in Customs)

Dec 11th

Committing a bunch of changes to subversion.

Dec 11th

@thorpus - does FireBug still work with FF3b1?

Dec 11th

Do websites need to look exactly the same in...

Dec 10th

Lamenting cross-browser rendering differences.

Dec 10th

Lucy’s calling Kate and Frances her “little garden angels.”

Dec 10th

As if the earlier mess wasn’t enough, wishing I could post directly to twitter from my Tumblr...

Dec 10th

Apologies to everyone caught in the perfect storm of my blog-to-RSS-feed-to-twitter-back-to-blog...

Dec 10th

Silver Sonya release party

Dec 9th

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas...

Dec 9th

TED | Talks | Jan Chipchase: Our cell phones,...

Dec 9th

Jan Chipchase is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. To wit: ...

Dec 9th

Sweet typography at jontangerine.com

Dec 9th

“Running a startup is a great way to learn how to, and how...”
— Marc Hedlund

Dec 8th

The new W&M logo? Just makes me sad.

Dec 8th

Base-Auth - Rails authorization plugin

Dec 8th

(via nighthawk3)

Dec 7th

Listening to the Sufjan Christmas album. Thanks again, @armisteadbooker!

Dec 7th

“The best products aren’t the ones with the most features....”
— Apple Human Interface...

Dec 7th

Ndakasimba kana makasimba ow! (I am strong, you are strong!) — refresh

Dec 7th

Plugins - Unobtrusive Javascript Date-Picker...

Dec 7th

Accessible Drag and Drop

Dec 7th

I love working from home. Sarah and Lucy just brought me hot chocolate, and Sarah ran through the...

Dec 7th

Wondering whether I should make my new CSS layout technique a Thing or not.

Dec 7th

Daring Fireball: iPhone Fonts

Dec 7th

Charlie: I'm having some trouble with the drag-and-drop on the wizard.
Sarah: Can you just use radio buttons?
Lucy: What's a dragon drop?

Dec 7th

TortoiseSVN-like Interface for TextMate

Dec 7th

Ryan and the Carsonified crew just launched Hugs. Super...

Dec 6th

Totally missed that Tumblr can do audio posts. I was wanting that. Look for some in the near future.

Dec 6th

Better Web Designer and Web Developer...

Dec 6th

Just paid over $700 in property taxes. I know The System accounts for payments like that, but it...

Dec 5th

Symmetric Arches (via Alex Stross (out on Holiday))

Dec 5th

Just finishing up some yardwork. With a machete.

Dec 5th

MP3s from Future of Web Design

Dec 5th

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work....”
— Zeldman

Dec 4th

@mogrify - Awesome! My 1st reaction was like twitter, or delicious: “what’s the big...

Dec 4th

Wishing Mates of State was touring nearby. Or Matt & Kim.

Dec 4th

Everyone following me on twitter owes it to him/herself to set up a tumblelog at http://tumblr.com

Dec 4th

Just another…. (via _uncommon)

Dec 4th

iPhone optimization, via Rails

Dec 4th

This morning’s soundtrack: Animal Collective, live in concert, courtesy NPR/ASC.

Dec 4th

JD's out of debt!

Dec 4th

Yup. I love Tumblr. Love it.

Dec 3rd

Leo's out of debt!

Dec 3rd

Could use a Guinness. In a pub.

Dec 3rd

My, it gets dark early these days.

Dec 3rd

Steve Krug and Jennifer Tidwell MP3s

Dec 3rd

PearBudget: Hi there! We're Charlie and Sarah. ...
Sarah: I'm already bored.

Dec 3rd

“A blind man doesn’t need a cane in his own home.”
— Me (regarding the danger of...

Dec 3rd

Off to bed. G’night, internet.

Dec 3rd

Design Notes - I may be over thinking this…

Dec 2nd

John Maeda: simplicity patterns - data...

Dec 2nd

TED Talk - John Maeda (audio only)

Dec 2nd

This is a normal, incandescent bulb, hanging over our dining...

Dec 2nd

And this is a CFL light, in the same light. Can you see why...

Dec 2nd

A Simpler Time: For anyone getting this by RSS, and just for the record, I’m moving my existing.....

Dec 2nd

Not that I like mullets, or anything. I don’t. Really.

Dec 2nd

Is it just me, or does the lowercase “a” of http://24ways.org/ look kind of like a...

Dec 2nd

Matt & Kim’s Similar Artists – Last.fm

Dec 1st

Vernazza with lens blur (via buteijn)

Dec 1st

I think tumblr’s going to work out well. The fact that I don’t even have to come up with...

Dec 1st

Super impressed by what’s coming out of http://www.buglabs.net/

Dec 1st

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have...”
— Gall’s Law (John Gall)

Dec 1st

Trying to get my head around branching and merging in Subversion.

Dec 1st

CSS Image Sprites Tutorial: How to Create CSS...

Nov 30th