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I just got back from a weekend in North Carolina. Montie Schmiege, Heather Thielen, and myself went to the Davidson River campground near Brevard, where we camped with Montie’s parents. Yesterday Montie and I went to DuPont State Forest [dupontforest.com] to do some mountain biking. The day was incredible and the mountain biking there is [...]

I’ll be incorporating ideas from this beaut [instone.org] in my usability testing. Yes I will.

My girlfriend, Heather Thielen, has recently been going on about the fact that she’d like to see Jon Stewart for President bumper stickers. I liked the idea and decided to make one. I had heard of CafePress [cafepress.com], but never used it. It’s a pretty cool site those cats at cafepress are running. It seemed [...]

I was browsing logs and webalizer charts today when I noticed that a site called teenopendiary.com was sending traffic to a picture of me on this server. This of course called for further investigation. The page linking to the picture in question is a diary called …just to fall down at your door.
I read [...]

Some thoughts on Andy Budd’s thorough article:
First, thanks Andy for the discussion piece. I think this is a subject that deserves more attention. Many are quick to cry witch at the sight of tables, though the quiet masses still seem to be (rather successfully) designing with them.
My first thought was man this is good - [...]

On Sunday I took a friend, Mike Freeland, for his first whitewater kayaking trip. This weekend the TVCC had a Paddle School on the Hiwasse, so there was a little more traffic than usual, but not bad. It was slightly overcast, and the water was colder than I remembered. I should’ve worn a top.
We started [...]

In the redesign of this site, I had a hard time figuring out exactly how to structurally mark up the global navigation. As you can see at the top of this page, what I needed was a vertical list of links and a vertical list of descriptions for those links.
In keeping with the current trend [...]

Update 2/24/2006: I’m now using the fantastic plugin FAlbum to integrate my flickr account into Wordpress. See it in action.
I have installed Pictorialis [mindfulmusings.net], which is based on WordPress, and have begun to upload pictures. It satisfies most of my needs, and I am quite glad to be sticking to WP. Browse the [...]

go is now live at go.dbenton.com. I am running WordPress [wordpress.org] version 1.2. So far, I am pleased. It seems to be lower maintenance than Moveable Type, but by the same token a bit less flexible (templating in particular). It is possible that I just haven’t realized its full potential yet. [...]

For the long Memorial Day weekend, I went kayaking with some friends (Heather, Sarah Sydnor, Ryan Camp, and Kathy Stair) to Little Tybee, where we camped for a coupla nights. The weather was sweltering, but beautiful. I packed all of my gear and more than my share of the group gear in and [...]