Conscription in the name of science

How would the landscape of hard problems change if everyone had to spend at least 6 months of their lives working on them?

What Bryan Cranston taught me at 4:00am

A short, true story about an actor, cookies, and dreams.

The channel knockout

The gene knockout experiment can be easily repurposed on a growth team to measure channel effectiveness.

Can we stop calling them backlinks?

Links are nothing more than the by-product of good relationships. Add value, create relationships and links will come naturally.

I paid $1 for priceless art

A little rant about why music is the best deal.

Introducing glAds

Can ads make you feel better about your life?

Why people won’t read your thesis

I am in the final stages of finishing my masters thesis under the supervision of Ron Baecker. Together, over the course of nearly two years, Ron and I, with the help of many others have created Friend Forecaster, a context-aware system designed to help you remember people’s names. I

Trying and failing is better than not trying

So last night I had some delusions of grandeur and my buddy Nick wasn’t around to talk some sense into me. Here’s the story. Recently, I have been experimenting and using Compass, a really great CSS framework that comes with a base of excellent default styles and custom

The day I fell in love with CSS

I can still remember how I celebrated Canada Day 4 years ago (July 1st, 2005).  I am not necessarily proud of how I spent my time but it was definitely memorable. I woke up around 9:30am that day, went outside and smelled the fresh air.  It was a warm

Colour: a Fun Way to Enhance User Experience

Bruce Mau’s Optimism Palette Recently I was hired to do some contracting work with Bruce Mau Design and learned a valuable lesson about colors and websites. One of BMD’s designers Jim Shedden asked me to update their www.brucemaudesign.com site so that when the user navigated to