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Every Wednesday Suzanne Long (Manager, Forbidden Island) unveils an all-new cocktail of her own creation—served that night only and never again at Forbidden Island. For showing up and ordering the drink, you get a limited-edition collector's card, and at the end of the 13 weeks, there are prizes to be won.

I meant to write this article about a month ago, but I've been too swamped to get it out.

Long story short: I'm done with AIM.

A part of me is amazed that the protocol has stuck around as long as it has, and another part is surprised I've stuck with it.

In truth, I hardly know ...

Hi folks!

I'm wrapping up my personal portfolio website, and have one piece that I really want to create, but need some awesome photos for. I'd love it if they came from my friends and family rather than stock photo sites!

Criteria:

• High-res (bonus points if you have a copy in RAW format)
• Color (no b&w)
• Landscape ...

The title of the post has a double meaning.

First off, I wanted to share the funniest error message I've ever gotten (from years ago). Its redundancy made me laugh so hard I actually to a screenshot of it. Click the image to see the full-size version of it.

Adobe Updater Fail

I hope you found that as funny ...

I've decided to start adding rel="designer" to the little "Designed by" links that go into sites I work on. That's right.

As the whole XFN movement continues to grow (slowly), I can't help but notice that there's no place in the spec for businesses. Identity is just as crucial for businesses as it is for ...

I've known about stackoverflow.com for a while... anybody that uses Google as their reference for coding lands on solutions there pretty regularly.

I signed up as a user two days ago after learning more about them at Google I/O and I have to say, there are are some excellent design features at work on their site.

1. They ...

At the keynote this morning, Google announced a brand new product that they're calling Wave which is flat out amazing.

Imagine combining gmail, chat, and docs and turning them into one all-encompassing real-time collaborative tool. Yeah, that's just the beginning.

Everyone invited to the Wave can edit simlutaneously without conflicts.

All the changes appear on everyone's screen ...

Eric's band Links (formerly a Zero Coordinate artist and always good friends of ours) is doing really well for themselves and down in LA.

Check out the review of their latest set (with videos and everything) here:

http://talesfromthepit.net/2009/05/21/links-prove-to-hollywood-why-its-better-to-be-a-knight-than-an-idol/

Leave 'em some love if you're so inclined!

MySpace fans are meaningless, while Facebook fans represent real people ready to support you. Yet industry executives are still looking at MySpace to see who's popular.

Facebook and its core user base has always been about real identity. Fake profiles on Facebook are a minority and are only tolerated for the sake of either celebrity or humor. Bots are ...

I got tired of having to upload every little change to the code of my web designs to the server to see if they even work at all, so I decided I'd run a local web server with PHP on my computer. If they ran Linux, this would be extremely simple. Unfortunately, I run Windows XP on both my ...

Useful tricks in Asterisk and some troubleshooting suggestions for the amazingly customizable (and frustrating) PBX system.

Point number one:

strongly believe in the theory that you should push yourself until you reach the technical limitations imposed by the gear you own. If you haven't mastered your mic placement you shouldn't be buying better mics. If you haven't mastered your apertures and f-stops you shoudn't be buying better cameras. And if you can ...