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The Genius of Crazy Vinnie — Good read about Van Gogh

Early this morning I received an email from someone with some info about the website that had been hotlinking some images, and sporting a very similiar layout to my site. He explained that the site in question was an “affiliate” of their site, and that they had no idea it was going on. He informed [...]

The Difference Between Gray and Grey. I only use grey!

ExplodingBoy has been selected as one of the 35 Sexiest Designed websites by the very kind Mr. Phil Renaud.

A few days ago while browsing through my logs I noticed an odd address listed. Upon futher investigation, it seems that a small Japanese porn site (name withheld for the time being) had been using a very familiar looking website, and had been hotlinking some images off of my server–Layout images, not Japanese porn images! [...]

I was reading an interesting article the other day about Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes. I must say I agree with about 8 out of the 10 points made, but have never seen that much use with a personal blog having a long about page. I also don’t think an author photo [...]

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I heard a startling fact over the weekend. Halloween is the second most popular holiday in the US in terms of money spent. I’ve never really been a huge fan of Halloween. My disdain for the holiday may stem from the fact that 15 of the years I actually participated in the holiday I was [...]

If your “sales associates” ignores me, cannot tell me the location of a product, or tell me the price of any product in the store, the very least they can do is drag my bag of circus peanuts across a checkout scanner and take my money.