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jQuery: If code were art, jQuery would be the most beautiful JavaScript painting in the world.
Movable Type: makes the whole blog thing work.
MT Plugin Directory: has a lot of excellent plugins and extensions for the Movable Type blogging system. I've used my share fair of them, and I'm grateful to all who have generously offered them up.
Arvind Satyanarayan is a Movable Type wizard! His plugins, hacks, and tips have greatly enhanced my site.
CaRP: gives away code for RSS news feeds. I'm using it to parse the feed for my "noteworthy articles" list, as well as some feeds on my resources pages.
amazon.com: gives me a wee little commission whenever someone uses one of my links to their site and buys something. As soon as I amass more than $10 in commissions—could take months, could take years—they send me a gift certificate so I can get a little something for myself.

Eric Meyer: he wrote the book on CSS and has a site with excellent CSS resources.
Jeffrey Veen, a former classmate of mine who hit it big on the internet.
Solidus Design: a little web design agency run by Paul LaGrand, a neighbor and friend of mine, and located in the former Pillow Palace.
Conflict Lab: a family-run business headed by the father-in-law of my good friend Michael VanHouten, who also works there. See my blog entry about their Apple Design Award.

The World Is Too Much With Us: I've never been an outdoorsy kind of guy, but something about these first few lines from William Wordsworth's poem resonates…; Comments (0)
Goodbye, Edgar: It all happened much more quickly than Sara and I had expected. We put our 1993 Volvo 240 Wagon on…; Comments (2)
XyliChew Mints: A big box of mints arrived at my doorstep last week. But they weren't just ordinary mints. No, they were…; Comments (0)

Vernon Wiering commented on Goodbye, Edgar: Our 1987 Toyota wagon engendered the same response. We sold it for eight dollars at…
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Karl Swedberg commented on Paper Airplanes: There is a group of Tibetan monks who create intricate sand mandalas and then throw…
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All I know about Bloomington I learned from the movie "Breaking Away." — Mon, Feb 8 at 5:25 pm
just finished day 1 of jQuery training in Bloomington, IN. So far, so good. Now it's dinner time. — Mon, Feb 8 at 5:25 pm
would have been miserable this morning if I hadn't been unit testing my javascript. QUnit FTW! — Fri, Feb 5 at 12:52 pm
What a mess. I'm absolutely terrible at SQL syntax. — Tue, Feb 2 at 5:06 pm
very cool! Filament Group's new book, Designing with Progressive Enhancement, is out. Link — Tue, Feb 2 at 3:55 pm
Reticent. — Sat, Jan 30 at 11:58 pm