This is the only time during the year when I care about College Basketball. I’m drawn in by the possibility of upsets, of David getting a shot at Goliath. But more than that, I’m drawn in by the bracket.
Growing up I spent lots of time around wrestling and football tournaments, both as a spectator and [...]

During today’s Army/Navy football game, Nike unveiled new uniforms for both teams. The new designs boast the latest performance fabrics, construction advancements, and careful application of design features that are symbolic of each of the academies. You can read about the details on the Army athletics web site.
Army was beaten badly by Navy, but [...]

This is old news, but I talk to enough people who don’t realize that the NFL updated its shield logo this season that I figured it was still worth posting. This was really more of a refresh than a redesign:

The football symbol was redrawn to look like the football that sits atop the Vince Lombardi [...]

A couple of years ago the University of Oregon football team unveiled a new array of uniform options. While I wasn’t a big fan of the uniform designs, I loved the idea of including multiple helmet options (and jersey and pant colors) instead of the traditional (and limited) home and away jersey variations.
I haven’t seen [...]

(or the Self-Indulgence Activity of the Week)
You can add this to the list of things I’ve done that only I will appreciate…
Ever since I purchased my iPhone one year ago I’ve been meaning to make a custom iPhone icon so that when I bookmark our web site on my home screen I’ll see a nicely [...]

The last two nights, sometime in the middle of the night, Microsoft automatically updated my development computer and restarted it. The result of this was a much more secure computer (I’m sure) which no longer works. Something about the update has destroyed key development tools installed on my system. I finally got the system fixed [...]

CBS Sports has a really nice Silverlight player for this year’s NCAA March Madness On Demand service (TM © All Rights Reserved and all that).

If you go to http://mmod.ncaa.com you can watch every one of the NCAA Basketball Tournament games onilne for free. The video is good quality – I’ve got the LSU vs. Butler [...]

As a developer, I am bombarded with propaganda from the tech-religious war machines. Read any newsgroup or forum that relates to technology, even remotely, and within five posts the rhetoric turns caustic. Often unprompted, a Windows lover will disparage their Mac-loving brother. Or, the PHP zealot will lambaste his ASP.NET sister. [...]

Over the weekend there was an update to Basecamp (the software we use to manage all of our projects) that included a feature we’ve been wanting for a long time: Reply to message via email.
In the past you had to log in to Basecamp in order to reply to a message. This caused problems for [...]

Last week Apple unveiled the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK). Over the weekend I finally had a chance to watch the video from the event on March 6. For you software-developer types, the video is worth watching. For the rest of you, here’s a summary…
iPhone will be to mobile devices as iPod is to MP3 [...]

Jeremy and I have always wanted TRUE to be a company that benefits our community in ways beyond our services. This goal is much easier imagined than accomplished because it is very difficult to add new endeavors to already busy schedules. However, we have been finding ways that we can give back to our community [...]

We are working with our friends at Affinity Kitchens, the ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) Arizona North Chapter and other local businesses to sponsor a special advance screening of ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’ as a private benefit for Childhelp, a leading national non-profit organization dedicated to helping victims of child abuse [...]

I welcomed a friend to Facebook with a status comment: “Welcome to the world of one-line reality.” As soon as I posted the comment I began to think about Twitter and Facebook status updates. Facebook’s new home page design betrays the fact on which Twitter has built its business: a simple feed of very short [...]

Carrie and I are movie buffs. Even during our first few years of marriage (when we were making very little money) we averaged 5 visits to the movies a month. That’s why we watch the Academy Awards every year. I don’t watch in a “ohmygoshicantwaittoseewhatangelinaiswearing” sort of way, but more like, “I read the first [...]

I watch a lot of crime drama. And whether it’s CSI or Law and Order, DNA seems to be the magic bullet. Whatever you do, don’t let them get your used coffee cup or cigarette butt. As useful as DNA technology is in the solving of crime, if you are planning any future criminal activities, [...]