Greg Albrecht

I love using bit.ly, tinyurl.com and is.gd.

I use these URL shortening services for a variety of reasons, but mostly because they allow me to send URLs to people who know little or nothing about the web – specifically people like my mom. Although her and her peers are capable of using email, IM, and other web services, they are incapable of detecting when a URL has been artificially wrapped:

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Friedman’s Saturday Op-Ed post in the NYTimes gives China a really good reason to engage in the the emerging Green ‘Energy Technology’ marketplace: innovate or get left behind.

Alley Off The Haight

Originally uploaded by andertho

Bad-ass HDR of an alley off of Haight Street in San Francisco.

Mexican American beer

Originally uploaded by gba

I love the UPC on this can of beer. I admire designers who can take something as information dense as bar codes and do something creative with them. Dare I say it’s practical and pretty? I bet someone had fun designing this.

I’m not sure if it’s bad design or bad programming, but having a article appear both above the fold:

As well as below the fold:

Is not only ugly, it’s 1. overkill and 2. taking space away from other articles. Unless you really have nothing else to publish on your site I can’t think of any reason to duplicate stories across the page like this.

I used to keep two trash bins next to my desk – one for recycling and one for waste. As was often the case I would fill up the recycling bin and put very little into the waste bin. Since I rarely work with anything wet, toxic, perishable or dusty I decided to consolidate the two bins into a single bin. From there, whenever I go to take out the trash I simply sort out the paper – which is the bulk – and toss the rest. Since I’m the person responsible for taking out my own trash it’s an easy step to remember, and the extra added effort pays off in the new clean space I’ve gained around my desk.

I woke up this morning thinking “Posting entire scripts is useful, but what if I just want to post snippets of code?” problems solved: snipplr.com. The best part of snipplr is that there’s a textmate bundle – you can paste and snip directly from a document in textmate. I’m in love.