An easier way to enter your events.

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  • April 20th, 2008

I’m always looking for better ways to organize my life which usually translates to “spending less time organizing and more time doing”. The amount of information you have to mentally gather when entering events, or to-dos is a unnecessary amount of mental work. Here’s some questions I ask myself every time I open iCal.

What day is it?
What’s the date?
Is this calendar I’m looking at the right month?
Is this week view?
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New site launch: BowWow Meow

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  • April 19th, 2008
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Congrats to Sharon and BowWow Meow, the site is live as of last week. All creative, information design, art direction, front-end, back-end, and even some photography, were done by moi.  Link

Recent Posts

Thanks Burnkit!

  • Posted: April 17th, 2008

A little going away present to BK! Many thanks to them for letting me hang out, screw up, and help out the last 6 weeks. Cupcake creds to the amazingly talented Liza for turning my idea into reality. Word on the street is these cupcakes used two full bottles of Burnkit red food coloring, and […]

April fools at Burnkit.

  • Posted: April 1st, 2008

If there’s one day you can cause havoc as an intern, and get away with it, it would be April Fools. So, last week I had just been given keys and alarm codes to the studio, I figured that’d be a good hook to play with. After about 20 minutes, two espresso’s, and 12pt Times […]

Things I’ve learned while working at Burnkit.

  • Posted: March 24th, 2008

Internet Exporer 6 gets absolute positioning all wrong.
If your using an element as a hook for another elements positioning. IE6 0,0 point doesn’t care about padding, so if you have an element styled like so:

Getting the UNIX path in plain text using Applescript and Quicksilver.

  • Posted: March 10th, 2008

Since working on Burnkit’s massive server the last week I’ve frequently come across the need to email the path of a file to another co-worker. I noticed yesterday that Finder doesn’t have a single place to extract the absolute path of your given location, they even tease you with it in “get info” but for some […]

Custom tee’s for the true design bum.

  • Posted: February 27th, 2008

Well, being finished school and all I’ve been able to accomplish my year long dream, and that is.. Design your damn font tee’s you’ve been dreaming about all year. These are some ideas I got sick of trying to find online so I decided to just go out and do them myself, the results are […]

School’s out, time to grow up :)

  • Posted: February 22nd, 2008

Yep, it’s all coming to an end, after today, there will be no more Interactive Design at Capilano College. Our 20+ grads will be pushed into the real world for a month long practicum and then left into the wild forever. Almost all of us have practicums at places we only hope to score jobs […]

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John's a web developer and designer located in Vancouver BC. When he isn't busy with code he enjoys a 130 degree macchiato whilst improving his brain age.

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