“To be young (is to be sad).” Ryan Adams
Dear Designer,
You don’t know me and I don’t know you, which is why I’m posting this here where you won’t see it instead of replying to your email with an eye-peeling …
read more”[T]he advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if the volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I’ll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It’s a comforting thought.” Flashman, Flashman at the …
read moreA social website for viewers of the Frontline program “God in America” to come together and discuss their religious views.
God in America is a 2010 episode of PBS’ Frontline. As part of the reporting for the show, Frontline wanted a social networking …
read more“That tension— between beauty and cynicism, between what the Brazilians call futebol d’arte and futebol de resultades— is a constant, perhaps because it is so fundamental, not merely to sport, but also to life: to win, or to play the game well? It is hard to think …
read moreProvided a Django CMS for the main website, a secured area for residents to manage their accounts and an engine to run individual sites for each property.
Starting out, Great North felt like a fairly typical project: content management …
read moreNot a whole lot to report. There is, I suppose, but it’s too damn nice of a day to spend it reading (or writing) this stuff. I’m dangerously close to finishing a site for PBS’ Frontline after a week-long crunch. It’s been yet another experience …
read moreNoting this here for the sanity of my future self. When using django-avatar (which is included in Pinax), you need to add at least one of the avatar settings, AVATAR_STORAGE_DIR, to your settings.py file. The important thing to note is this needs to be a …
read more“It ain’t always easy, if your knees knock as hard as mine, but you must remember the golden rule: when the game’s going against you, stay calm— and cheat.” Flashman at the Charge
Heard from an old client and met with a (potential) new one this …
read moreINT - KITCHEN - DAYTIME
Me: We’ve still got the frying pan to clean. Michelle: I always forget that. Me: I know, it’s on my list of complaints about you. Michelle (unimpressed): Really? Me: See chapter 3, “Domestic Disappointments”.
read more”[T]here’s something splendid waiting for you to go and find it, far out yonder. I wonder if I’d feel it now, or if it happens only when you’re young, and have no thought for the ill things that may lie along the way.” Flashman …
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