This past week I read an article in the latest issue of WIRED magazine. The article was entitled Chaos Theory by author Nicholas Carr. His main argument in the article is basically that the internet is changing the way we read , focus on and analyze writing. In fact he provides recent studies that show that the [...]

Over the past few weeks, I got deeply into the television series LOST. Prior to this, I had only heard people talking about the show and how hard it is to stop watching. So, with the final episode coming May 23, 2010 I decided to start from the beginning and see what all the hype [...]

In two weeks my class in object-oriented programming will be coming to a close. I decided to take the class in hopes of giving me better insight into computer programing and computer science in general. Of course, I also took the class in preparation of possibly going back for a masters degree in HCI ( Human Computer Interaction), [...]

Recently I have been spending a lot of time relearning things in web design and development. I realize that I can get caught up in doing things repeatedly without questioning why. After all we are creatures of habit. This has been on my mind since I started to read Jeffery Zeldman’s 3rd edition of Designing [...]

Not too long ago I wrote a note called Digital Native Responsibility. I continued my thoughts on this after watching a very relevant documentary on PBS called Digital Nation. The documentary visited the common “digital native” in various cities all over the world which examined the positive and negative effects technology has on brain development. [...]

This past weekend I downloaded the alpha version of Trillian for Mac OSX 10.5 or higher. I sometimes feel the need to test out and use new IM programs. Some how I find myself always going back to iChat mainly because it is simple and offers the basic functionality I’m looking for. However, the newest [...]

A question popped up today if it is OK to use more than one H1 tag in a XHTML document. With the understanding that H1 is the most important and working your way to H6 becomes less important. This question was directed towards the case when you want to have an Logo (with image replacement [...]

This past week I had the pleasure to start a new book called “The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism” by Matt Mason. I have only gotten to the end of the fist chapter, but I am already connecting to much of his writing. Punk Capitalism, which he describes as a modern day [...]

Not too long ago I remember the term Digital Native come up in a conversation. The words kinda stuck with me for a while and I began thinking about it on several occasions. So, of course I googled it to get a better overall understanding. According to Wikipedia, the term digital native was coined by [...]

One thing that has been on my mind recently is the differences in print and digital graphic design. I have began to deeply consider the area of usability when designing for the web. While I still don’t preform any sort of usability testing to my web designs, I have been looking into quick and inexpensive [...]