clifton labrum archives

In my desperate optimism, I make some predictions regarding the rumored iPhone Nano. Something has to come along that’s easier on the wallet.

posted by clifton on Friday, Jul 27, 2007

Sorry for the lame camera phone picture, but I had to show you all this vending machine. It’s in the Church Office Building cafeteria. It’s the best selection in a vending machine I’ve ever seen. It’s well stocked, too. Booya. I sure love junk food.

posted by clifton on Thursday, Jul 19, 2007

“Let me tell you right now. With all the years of development, SharePoint is abysmally lame.”
IM Conversation with a Product Marketing Manager for a very large software company (not Microsoft) that uses SharePoint

posted by clifton on Friday, Jul 13, 2007

We moved in to our new office space this week and discovered an all-metal, retro stapler with the Church’s old logo on it.

posted by clifton on Friday, Jul 13, 2007

Nate Koechley, Senior Engineer & Designer for Yahoo! highly recommends watching industry experts in the YUI Theather.

(How’s that for real-time conference coverage?)

posted by clifton on Tuesday, Jul 10, 2007

On your mark, get set, go!

posted by clifton on Thursday, Jun 28, 2007

I hereby claim to be the inspiration behind Weird Al’s White n’ Nerdy.

posted by clifton on Wednesday, Jun 27, 2007

Sometimes the best way to kick off a project is to get up to 11,000 feet for some fresh air.

Working here is full of variety and excitement.

posted by clifton on Thursday, Jun 21, 2007

If you’ve ever needed a visual way of communicating that something is processing, here’s an online tool to help: Ajax Loading .gif Generator

posted by clifton on Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007

A combination of Jason’s recommendation and New York’s giddy anticipation of the iPhone:

iPhone New York

posted by clifton on Friday, Jun 15, 2007

In a recent conversation with other designers, I thought to myself, “I still won’t need to worry about Safari even if it is available for Windows.”

A few days into it, and Apple has hit 1 million downloads.

By virtue of the fact that a web designer’s life is already full of cross-browser debugging, I hereby nominate IE6 to fall off the edge of the Earth. Microsoft, you have my permission to push IE7 as a mandatory update.

posted by clifton on Thursday, Jun 14, 2007

Windows Mobile devices can now get some iPhone UI goodness with iContact.

posted by clifton on Thursday, Jun 14, 2007

No surprises with the Apple Design Awards at WWDC 2007.

posted by clifton on Wednesday, Jun 13, 2007

“The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact fore-armed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.”
Screwtape (a devil) in The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

posted by clifton on Wednesday, Jun 13, 2007

Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? It’s always good to see one of the larger sites out there do some spring cleaning.

CNN Beta

posted by clifton on Friday, Jun 08, 2007

Not all bad sheep are black.
(Taken by Bea outside Lower Tresmorn Farm, Crackington Haven, UK)

posted by clifton on Wednesday, May 30, 2007