I'm going to pretend ten months having passed since this blog was updated ain't no thing, and follow up on the last note. Since January I have converted my planted aquarium into a coral reef tank (making it 29 gallons, and not the original 15 I had planned), kept a blog about it, and moved to a new apartment. Eye candy to follow.

Labels: Aquarium, Blogging, Photos, Projects, Reef Tank

The BBQ Blog returns! For those unfamiliar with its virtual meaty goodness, The BBQ Blog is a project I had during the final years of art school. My good buddy Matt and I would blog about grilling, post recipes, etc. Apparently some people actually found it semi-useful, unlike most of the stuff I contribute to the internet.

bbq.nattarbox.com

Eventually it came to a halt when the Brookline fire department got sick of seeing clouds of mesquite smoke wafting off the roof of my apartment building. The grill disappeared one day and a notice regarding the illegality and general lack of common sense relating to open fires on rooftops was slipped under my door. We continued grilling occasionally, but the blog began to languish.

Today we're bringing it back, primarily as an excuse for me to learn XHTML (transitional, I'm not that crazy yet) and CSS. I've been putting off this step far longer than anyone who works as an interactive designer should, relying on the hacked up HTML I learned in the roaring '90s. Armed with the written support of Zeldman I'm slowly taking the blog back online. So far I haven't spent much time on the design, intending to keep it fairly similar to the previous. Right now its pretty ugly as I'm mostly just getting the Blogger tags in place, but once the framework is in place and working I'll put a pretty face on the 'ol girl.

Also a lot of the content needs updating, especially in the photo deparment since the demise of my previous host. I've started transitioning photos over to Flickr, where hopefully they will enjoy a permenant home.

Labels: bbq, Blogging, internet

My buddy at work just put up a new site, www.design-feed.net:

"Design-Feed is a design feed aggregator. We hand-pick the most interesting design related RSS feeds and present them in an easy-to-browse format."

Update: seems to be quite a day for Brightcove employee personal site launches. Eric brings us www.quickrisotto.com, a site for Risotto recipes and videos. And I guess this is the first real post on my new blog, so yay for me too.

Labels: Blogging, Links