http://cdharrison.com This is the personal site/blog/experiment of Chris Harrison, a web designer living, working and playing in Augusta, GA. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:57:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night I had the opportunity to talk about Microformats at the November RefreshAugusta meeting. To support the slides, I created a microsite with links to all of the sites mentioned in the slides. Hopefully you'll find this useful. I'm also making the slides available for you to reuse/repurpose/remix under ... http://cdharrison.com/2008/11/microformats-2/ So, a couple of weeks ago Phil and I were joking around about bacon. (It's a pretty common occurrence these days.) We came up with the idea of  raising money for a .bacon TLD (e.g. iaccidentallythewhole.bacon). Out of nowhere he suggests: twitterbacon.com. I thought it was brilliant. I got the ... http://cdharrison.com/2008/11/bacontwits/ The Abduction Lamp. I _need_ this. (ht: Emily) http://cdharrison.com/2008/11/the-abduction-lamp/ Design for Obama. There's some really inspiring work here. http://cdharrison.com/2008/11/1901/ Because of the experimental state of my site, you're encouraged to view it using the latest version of Safari, Firefox or Opera. Once I've decided on a design direction, I'll work on backwards compatibility. Thanks for your understanding. http://cdharrison.com/2008/11/experimental/ Download: 1920 × 1280 | 1680 × 1050 | PSD | View on Flickr | iPhone | iPhone PSD Win by Chris Harrison is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Take it. Remix it. Share it. http://cdharrison.com/2008/11/win/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay http://cdharrison.com/2008/10/1875/ So very true. Meetings are toxic. http://cdharrison.com/2008/10/meetings/ Everything is better wrapped in bacon. “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”— Doug Larson http://cdharrison.com/2008/10/1869/ Microsoft recently released the Oomph Microformats toolkit and Emily drafted an excellent writeup on it. http://cdharrison.com/2008/10/oomph/ Let's face it: as designers and developers, dealing with antiquated browsers sucks. That's why I'm calling for an International Browser Upgrade Day. It doesn't matter when we do it, we just need to do it. It's official: August 27, 2009 will be International Browser Upgrade Day. J. Cornelius and Emily Lewis ... http://cdharrison.com/2008/10/international-browser-upgrade-day/ Mobile Firefox Reaches Alpha 1, Offers Desktop Version for Testing http://cdharrison.com/2008/10/1846/ Cursebird: What the f#@! is everyone swearing about? You people kiss your mother's with that mouth? ;) http://cdharrison.com/2008/10/1843/ Microsoft’s new Web Application Installer provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more. I'm really happy to see Microsoft moving in this direction. (ht: Matt) http://cdharrison.com/2008/10/1841/ SyntaxHighlighter Plus. Just enabled this on the site. It should make it easier for me to share code snippets from now on. http://cdharrison.com/2008/10/1838/