For many of you this post will instantly be filed under “Duh!”; but for many others, hopefully it will get you to think a bit.
A few days ago I sent an email to our IT director, this is how it went…
Bruce Schneier is a security technologist who has written books about security and cryptography and is internationally renowned for his smarts. I was reading on his website where he sums up this study done on the security of the main web browsers in the marketplace, and the results are remarkable. The gist of it is that 98% of the days during the year-long study the web browser MSIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer) was unsafe. Compared to Firefox which was unsafe only 15% of the time, and Opera 17% of the time.
Based on this, I suggest we make a move to have all our company using Firefox as the default web browser ASAP. It’s a great browser, very fast, and very compatible. In fact it’s more feature rich and standards compatible than IE is. It imports all your IE settings on install and it’s free. …
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We just got back from a lovely time in New York with the fam there. We toured Long Island, spent a day in Manhattan and did many Christmas traditions. My sister’s husband-to-be joined us and that was extra cool, as I hadn’t spent any extended sort of time with him.
The above pic is a present I made for my father. It was a big hit. He’s taking it to the office today to proudly display it.
We’re here in Long Island celebrating Christmas with some of our family. Yesterday we went into the city and saw some good sights. I bought a great figure of the Empire State Building with King Kong on the top. We’re having a great Christmas and enjoying the family. I hope you have an awesome Christmas and get to spend it with some family. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
When Gillette announced they were going for a five-blade razor I made a decision. First of all, good gravy, who needs five blades on a single razor? I really liked their Mach 3 razor. It was easy to use, never cut me and all-in-all I got a decent shave with it. Gillette decided to skip over releasing a four-blade razor and jumped straight to five. Something tells me this has something to do with their rival, Schick, announcing a four-blade razor, but they say it “has nothing to do with this”.
Well, who cares, I’m ditching the modern shaving world all together. I’m sick of paying big bucks for replacement cartridges with pivot heads, rubberized something or others, and lubricating strips.
About a month ago, I bought an old school razor that uses a single blade. These are known as safety razors. They have no moving parts, just three pieces that screw together to hold the blade down. The blades cost about fifty cents or less to replace.
I don’t use a shaving gel, I use a badger-hair brush and …
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While I was in Dallas over thanksgiving we spent a lot of time with my grandpa. We had a fantastic time and really enjoyed talking and spending time with him. Most of the family who could showed up because we all knew he was really sick. We had 28 people eating together for the thanksgiving meal. It was awesome. Check my flickr for some photos from Thanksgiving.
Papa died on Sunday morning.
I miss him already. He is the first person who I really knew in my family to die, which to me seems pretty weird. I’m pushing 30 (yeah, I realize that’s not terribly old, but the point is…), which means for nearly 30 years, no family member that I was close to has died. I’m really fortunate.
Speaking of being fortunate I’m so thankful I was able to say goodbye. I knew at the time that spending Thanksgiving was important and special. I was thankful for it as it happened, but the moment I found out about his death, it hit me really hard how awesome it was.
While I was gone on vacation, one of my sites went into soft launch, meaning, it’s live now, but not a whole lot of people know about it yet. Check it out, and if you find any bugs, send me a note
St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Church
This is the first website I’ve designed of which I won’t be the primary caretaker. That really changes the way you think about the administrative tools for your site, and the usability thereof. (by the way, we’re using Wordpress), So far, it has been going fairly well, but it really made me think twice about how the site is organized. Organizing information for yourself is one thing, but making it easy to understand for someone else is entirely different. They need to feel like they can own it.
The problems arose when I discovered times that I was lazy in programming some of the templates with the Wordpress system. Sometimes, and I don’t realize I do this till later, I make a little compromise here and there that makes the usability a little more difficult in favor of …
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More TV shows are on iTunes now. Looks like NBC, Sci Fi and USA are in, which means a lot more shows to check out. Lots of vintage stuff, including Dragnet, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and … drumroll please…. vintage Knight Rider!
Now I just need to find the episode when Kit drives through lava.
One of my favorite Christmas traditions growing up was the burning of drip candles. Each child got their own (empty!) bottle of chianti, and each year we’d burn a drip candle on it. Every year the drips would build. Of course, being a boy, I enjoyed this because it involved fire, and of course, being the oldest, my candle had the most build-up of drip (except for Dad’s).
When my wife and I married, we started a candle for her, and this year we celebrate our fifth christmas together.
Here’s our candles.
Be Good Not Bad is all about really good web design, based on the utmost respect for web standards, accessibility and respect for the user. Based in Denver, Colorado, Be Good Not Bad is run by Brian Warren, freelance designer, blogger, homebrewer and coffee nut.
