Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally

So over on Twitter there has been a little bit of discussion between Bryan, Anton and myself about the rash of custom scrollbars that have popped up on websites lately that leverage some new webkit functionality.

Anton brought up that we as a web community had decided that styling browser chrome elements was bad, and he is right we did come to that decision many, many years ago. Read the rest »

Thousands of poems have been written about it, millions of songs sung in its honor and atrocities committed in its name. Love. The intangible, irresponsible, irrepressible sensation that drives us to the heights of the human capacity for nobility and beauty, while simultaneously dragging us down into the darkest pits of despair imaginable.

There are many languages to love. From the woman who feels loved when the garbage is taken out, to the teenager who just wants to be reassured that yes, happiness can be found in a warm embrace. I have struggled through my marriage to not only learn the language of love that my wife receives and gives, but to become a master at it. Read the rest »

We all have one don’t we? That job that if we could just get it, we would be completely content, nay not content, joyful, fulfilled.

I don’t know what your dream job is, but mine would be to work in a think tank. To be paid to sit around and dream all day would be as close to heaven as one can get without some sort of pharmacological assistance. Read the rest »

At $work, I have stepped into a managerial role where I am tasked not only with the care and feeding of the other developers in my area, but the mentoring and development professionally of the junior developer that has recently come on board.

In many ways this is pretty exciting for me. I love to mentor people; watching someone develop and grow is a rare privilege not enough of us are afforded. Likewise, being able to help guarantee a positive work environment that is conducive to ridonculous level code being produced by the more senior members of my team is incredibly satisfying. Read the rest »

As I was about to begin the process of crafting my first entry for Project 52, I suffered a botched upgrade of the software that powers Sillyness.

I had grand plans to knock out a new theme for 2010, complete with custom illustrations for each post, but that didn’t happen either, because of the afore mentioned upgrade snafu. In one of those moments that can only be viewed as a gift from the universe, I realized that the complete collapse of my plans was a very good thing. Read the rest »