Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Never thought I would say this since I’m long out of college, but I am in fact reading a book. (Hence why I’ve been quiet here on the blog the last few days) I purchased the The Smashing Book. So far it has been very educational. It is broken up into several really useful topics, [...]

It took me long enough, but I’m now on Twitter! I actually had an account set up several months ago but never logged in. I decided it was time. My username is practicalweb. While I may not post every event in life, I will try to keep it up to date with the blog and [...]

I’ve not done much posting lately here because I’ve been in the process of switching my hosting provider.  Not that I was unsatisfied with my previous provider, actually quite the opposite.  I wanted to get all of my sites together so they’re easier to manage.  I now have this site with WebFaction.  Why WebFaction? So [...]

Before sending hate mail please read this post entirely Everyday on Digg or some other tech news site you see a headline about file sharing music and movies and what not. I can’t help but think that most everyone does it (or has done it), but how blatantly people try to defend doing it. I’ve [...]

Well, from time to time I venture to other operating systems and also from time to time you come across some pretty cool apps that help out. I recently stumbled upon Drawberry for OSX. Its a very simplistic vector graphics editor which even I can use! Definitely worth a try, and best of all is [...]