Dave Kellam

How to order a bottle of wine without looking like an asshole.

26. Its wine, not the Blood of Christ. Don’t worship it. Enjoy it.

And for the love of God, don’t smell the cork.

I’m already getting sick of this layout, it’s too much like the last one. In the near future I’ll upgrade WordPress and start hacking away at a new theme. For those that have requested themes and whatnot, Fork for K2 will be along shortly. And to those that think I don’t spend any time with my plugins, flickrRSS 3.0 should be along soon too (be prepared to break your old installs, muahaha).

Khoi Vinh is the new design director at the NYT. Look for the gold standard in newspaper web-design to shape up.

It’s Ketchup Week. I’ve been at home, which may explain the lack of updates. Should be back in Kingston tomorrow afternoon, the pace should pick up a bit.

Feed Icons. The popularity of Matt’s icon pack led him to create a stand-alone site to grab them from.

Greg has posted the new Airbag Industries wallpaper to go with his header. Grab it now for halftoney goodness.

A 1946 propoganda film comparing democracy and despotism. You feel kind of dirty after watching it. Your community may be headed towards despotism when economic distribution favours the wealthy and information is controlled by the few. Uh oh.

The IE7 team recently announced that they’re adopting the Firefox feed icon to create consistency across browsers. It’s about time, those oranage xml and rss chiclets were ass-ugly. In response, Matt Brett has whipped up some fancy full-size feed icons (in Photoshop and Illustrator format) that you can use on your site.

Merlin describes his txt setup. I’ve tried a variety of solutions, but will probably end up here in the next little while. So much of my time is spent in a text-editor these days, that it just makes sense. Ideally, it would be nice to get it rsynced to my server so I can access the files anywhere.

The Boston Globe is reporting that there’s a growing gender gap in computer science. There’s a quote in there from Dr. Maria Klawe (who spoke at my CS convocation), if you get a chance to hear her speak about women in computing, make sure you attend. Supposedly women are better at multitasking, kind of makes you wonder why they’re not the ones designing our operating systems.

Looks like us Canadians have finally figured out that we’ve been getting the shaft in terms of web-development conferences. The ball is rolling and you can vote for a preferred conference location or leave commentary. I’m on board, it’s about damn time.

Escher’s Relativity in Lego.