…apparently I was wrong.

Seems some folks who put together a list of “favorite vlogs” for wired decided that a site titled “Boring But Short” wasn’t enough of a warning.

Boring But Short
boringbutshort.com
The “boring” part is right, but at 10 seconds, these clips are 9.5 seconds too long. They should change the URL to boringbutnotshortenough.com.

Update: If any of you have the May print edition of Wired (the one with Al Gore on the cover) it’s on page 132. I have a horrible cameraphone pic of it over on flickr.

Update: BoringButNotShortEnough.com

Update: (yes, another) Chris has posted a far better image than mine of the wired print piece on flickr.

Apparently one of the students in the “Web Career Strategies” course at the Seattle Central Community College thought my portfolio was good (I’m Portfolio #2). Too bad I don’t have a contact form, just that “contact” link in the main nav on the side of the page.

What I thought was really interesting though was seeing Kottke’s work with a “con” description of “The design of the sites is boring.”

Update: Looks like I’ve made it to more than one student in the course’s list: On the home page, the large buttons didn’t blend well with the rest of the page content..

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks that I’ve been barely posting in, so I figured it was time to catch things up again.

On March 31st I gave my notice at my previous job. About a week after one of the other 2 web designers had left, and the day after they told one of the best haXX0rs I’ve known they were letting him go. So I gave my notice and let the 12th be my last day as a little birthday present to myself and got to leave that job on my 30th birthday, then meet my dad, step-mother, grandfather and Andrea for a nice dinner. Took a couple days off to hack around with a bit of stuff (added some new stuff to Ekwipment, but it’s still not done yet), then Andrea got a room for us in Atlantic City so we went up there and blew a bunch of money and had a great time (pics on flickr). So today was my first day on a new gig, good team, good environment. Shows great promise.

A while back Alex told me he was given a Web 2.0 Award from the SEOmoz folks. I never really read his interview about it until today so imagine my surprise when my name came up in it (for Ekwipment and a couple Vanilla extensions I helped him out with).

How big is your development team? Anything special you’d like to say about them?
All development is done by me with the exception of some custom PHP apps that were built by my good friend Michael Raichelson.

Though apparently I’m just not good enough to warrant an actual link.

Speaking of oft-ignored blogs…

So, once upon a time I used to have a copy of APB that I kept everything in. But the app itself got sort of abandoned and with the rise of del.icio.us (and more recently Ma.gnolia) I found that there were other services that people ran that I could use and not have to deal with it myself. So recently I ported all my del.icio.us bookmarks to Ma.gnolia (to get everything synced up between the two) and used the Ma.gnolia “import from firefox bookmark HTML format” doohickey to make a dump of my APB bookmarks and import all those too (though it did a pretty pitiful job of “convert folder names to tags” I must say) so everything would all be up on some services that would be a little more flexible. Since then I’ve started using OnlyWire to simultaneously bookmark things to both places.

Anyway, over the weekend I got bored and sat down with some jQuery and PHP time and rebuilt my bookmarks page to pull data from del.icio.us (they have the best API at the moment) and make it do all sorts of “web2.0″ goodness. The result: the brand new HOME.NIFKIN.COM