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http://www.flickr.com/photos/stechico/509005171/

Sweet­ness! My first offi­cial, (per­sonal) busi­ness cards. The ones that weren’t actu­ally printed via Vista Print =)

Thanks to Eric of Print100.com for help­ing me get them here quick. I just put the order on Thurs­day, May 17—and they arrived today… only 5 days! Fast indeed.

Turned out pretty well for not hav­ing any proof­ing. Those Pan­tone books totally helped get­ting it close to the right color. I’ll prob­a­bly do another run some­time soon to exper­i­ment on this. Awesome…

Note: Only $33.83 for 300 w/ Spot UV applied on my name… I need a bet­ter desk lamp.

So What’s New In May?

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Hey, hey, hey. May 1st has come and gone and those who have promised them­selves to Reboot were either suc­cess­ful, or behind. One of the sites I’m curi­ously await­ing to check out is Bryan Veloso’s new ren­di­tion of Aval­on­Star.

So what the heck am I doing this early in the morn­ing? I can’t damn sleep, and have been try­ing to fig­ure out how to orga­nize my shiznit a bit bet­ter. I have too much stuff going on (as usual), and need to com­plete tasks I have set in my to-do list. But it seems that that list just keeps get­ting big­ger and wider (in terms of those URL-bookmarks).

Any­ways, just wanted to catch-up with this writing-thingy-majig. Maybe some­one out there can help orga­nize things with some cool advise and/or refer­ral gift =)

Speak­ing of which, here’s some cool things that have inter­ested me in the past cou­ple of days:

  • Mac­Book Pro — yeah, I’m a “switch-hitter” now
  • Text­Mate Basic Tuto­ri­als — this will prob­a­bly change my devel­op­ment work­flow for work and on-the-side
  • Com­pil­ing new “points of inspi­ra­tion” from the Reboot-ed sites, new and old
  • … and the list goes on—but it seems that I should be catch­ing some Zs now as I hear some people’s alarm clock going off; at least I think I’m hear­ing it

From my mind to yours, keep learning.

@Media 2007 — Time to Learn More!

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@media 2007 - San Francisco

I was for­tu­nate enough to be spon­sored by M.com/Monster World­wide to attend @media 2007 up here in SF.

@media: For forward-thinking web design and devel­op­ment pro­fes­sion­als, @media, one of the world’s fore­most and well received web design con­fer­ences, comes to the West Coast for the first time this May 24th and 25th.

The unique pre­sen­ta­tions from lead­ing indus­try experts will inspire and edu­cate, cov­er­ing a mul­ti­tude of aspects of best prac­tice web design, dis­cussing top­ics such as user-interface design, acces­si­bil­ity, seman­tic markup, CSS, JavaScript, and ajax.

Woohoo! I can’t wait to get my badge! haha =)

TechCrunch Reinvents Itself by Going Green

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One of the sites I fre­quent, TechCrunch, has emerged with a redesign.

TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog ded­i­cated to obses­sively pro­fil­ing and review­ing new web 2.0 prod­ucts and com­pa­nies. In addi­tion to new com­pa­nies, we will pro­file exist­ing com­pa­nies that are mak­ing an impact (com­mer­cial and/or cul­tural) on the web 2.0 space. TechCrunch is edited by Michael Arring­ton, who also writes a com­pan­ion blog, CrunchNotes.

This time around, things seems to be quite green. Other notable fea­tures of the redesign would be that the main-content area got moved from the cen­ter, to the left. Fol­low­ing that, most of the ads were then flanked on the right, which used to be on the left and right sides of the main-content.

I don’t know what it is, but the green skin just reminds me too much of Technorati’s. Besides that, I think the font-size and line-height improves on usabil­ity from the last ver­sion. Although, I kind of am still used to the sub­tle, nat­ural col­ors of the last one. Any­ways, con­grats to Michael and cre8d design/Rachel Cun­liffe on the launch.

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