Voices in the Wilderness
I’m back from Los Alamos and out from under the worst of the e-mail avalanche. Northern New Mexico is beautiful in its own way, although a touch too barren for my tastes. But only a touch. For a...
View ArticleOut of the Past
Yesterday, I finally cleaned out my old desk, which is now Kat’s desk, so she could make use of the drawers. More than a decade’s worth of mementoes, knick-knacks, toys, scraps, and other oddities...
View ArticleTen Years On
It was ten years ago this evening that I marked up my first HTML document. I know this because I did the whole thing using Microsoft Word on a Mac laptop in the course of a Friday evening at the CWRU...
View ArticleF-F-F-F-Foolin’
April Fools Day has rolled ’round again, and already the confusion is thick in the air. Doug and Dave have swapped faces for a day (or perhaps longer), much as newspaper comic artists often do. The...
View ArticleLook Back In Awe
Just in case you haven’t seen it yet, John Allsopp posted a nostalgic note about the early days of CSS. If you want to know who I hung out with back in the day, John’s got most of the names right...
View ArticleUnder The Influences
When I pointed to Nick Finck‘s mention of me as an influence, I somehow missed the fact that he was doing it in response to a post by D. Keith Robinson about his Web design influences. Keith listed me...
View ArticleDevEdge Content Returns
Once was lost, now is found: “Images, Tables, and Mysterious Gaps” has been resurrected from the Great Bit Bucket Beyond and given new life on Mozilla.org. In fact, it looks like just about all the...
View ArticleWinter Drifts
By current standards, the winter storm we’ve just weathered was pretty severe: two feet of snow blanketed our local environs in the course of 24 hours, give or take. I put a few pictures up on Flickr,...
View ArticleBrowser Version Timeline
Way back in March of 2007, I moderated a SXSW panel called “A Decade of Style”. As part of the introductory material, I created a browser-history timeline in Keynote, spread across two slides. I’d...
View ArticleAlmost Target
I’d like to tell you a little story, if I may, from way, way back in 2002. (The exact date is lost to the mists of time, but the year is pretty solid.) Like a lot of stories, it’s little bit long; but...
View ArticleSame As It Ever Was
I recently became re-acquainted with a ghost, and it looked very, very familiar. In the spring of 1995, just over a year into my first Web gig and still just over a year away from first encountering...
View ArticleThe Web Behind
Whenever I meet a new person and we get to talking about our personal lives, one of the things that seems to surprise people the most, besides the fact that I live in Cleveland and not in New York City...
View ArticleJohn Allsopp to Inaugurate ‘The Web Behind’
Jen Simmons and I are very pleased to announce that our first guest on The Web Behind will be none other than John Allsopp. Hailing from Sydney, Australia, John by himself has seen and done more on the...
View ArticleThe Web Behind #1
Last Thursday was the first episode of The Web Behind, which was also episode #35 of The Web Ahead, and I couldn’t really have been much happier with it. John Allsopp made it brilliant by being...
View ArticleCatching Up: TWB #2 and #3
I’ve been a little bit remiss in keeping up with The Web Behind. I think that’s irony? Or maybe it’s just a bummer. Anyway, the second episode, starring Steve Champeon, was recorded and released last...
View ArticleThe Stinger
(In television, the “stinger” is the clip that plays during or just after the closing credits of a show.) On Friday, the Web Standards Project announced its own dissolution. I felt a lot of things...
View ArticleResurrected Landmarks
It was just last week, at the end of April, that CERN announced the rebirth of The Very First URL, in all its responsive and completely presentable glory. If you hit the root level of the server, you...
View ArticleCiao, Camino
It’s been obvious for a long time that Camino was withering away, but they’ve formally called an end to the project: After a decade-long run, Camino is no longer being developed, and we encourage all...
View ArticleThe Web At 25
The Web is celebrating its 25th anniversary today, taking as its starting point the March 1989 publication of “Information Management: A Proposal”. I was honored to contribute a small greeting to the...
View ArticleTwenty Years Later
It was right about now, exactly two decades ago, that I pulled on my Tom Servo “I’M HUGE” T-shirt and strolled from my apartment over to Strosacker Auditorium for the CWRU Film Society’s screening of...
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