Entries from August 2007

NeonGecko Search Engine Marketing

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Check out our new design and content the NeonGecko Search Engine Marketing website. Dave and I conceptualized the new logo over lunch one day, he produced a prototype, and we finished the refined version by a few hours later.
Dana and I converted my old visual design to the new color scheme and have been collaborating [...]


Beautiful and Free iPhone Wallpapers

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Check them out at 320by480.com. I suppose this post is for Brooke, and no one else, as he is the only person I know who a) owns an iPhone and b) reads my website. Nice.


Rummikub at the House Meeting

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Our house meeting---Claire, Deirdre, RV and me---saw my worst ever Rummikub draw: 12 turns of drawing for 26 tiles before I had opening melds totaling 25 points. Notice the point at which RV only had one tile. The second photograph, as taken with my iPhone, [...]


Site Pre-Launch

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I recently updated the design and code for Stephen Chiang's Imagineit Child and Pet Photography website. Check it out and let me know what you think. I still have a few design tweaks to make.


The Horrors of Ford Fuel Efficiency (or Lack Thereof)

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I have mentioned this statistic to quite a few friends, and today located the sources to support it:
Fleet-wide, Ford cars and trucks averaged 19.7 miles per gallon (mpg), narrowly avoiding last place in the fuel efficiency report for the third straight year... ...19.7 mpg on average is less efficient than the old Model T Ford.
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SparkleMotion Fuel Efficiency

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397.9 miles / 10.94 gallons = 36.4 miles per gallon. Huzzah!
The miles for this calculation were the odometer reading between filling the tank on Friday and filling the tank today. The gallons consumed were the amount of gas necessary to refill the tank today, after having driven the aforementioned miles to Portland and back, and [...]


Sailing on Lake Washington with RV and Dave

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On July 22nd, Dave Zucker took out RV and me on a Lake Washington sailing jaunt. We learned important nautical terms like jib and telltail and caught glimpses of huge houses across to the east. Thanks, Dave!
This photo-centric post is foreshadowing of upcoming design [...]