We recently created our first infographic, based on the 2010 update to a long-running survey of retail theft in the US. It was surprisingly tricky to create, even though there was not a huge amount of data to present. Read More
Real Life
New “Deal of the Day” Email Template
I’ve been working with Florida Flourish on a couple of projects and here’s the outcome of the first one — a new template for our weekly deals email.
Read MoreRecover Data from a Damaged Hard Drive Using a Live CD
Last week my hard drive started looking like it might be on its last legs. The built-in diagnostic tool that comes with my HP computer was returning a “BIOHD-8” error, which suggested that my hard drive was not feeling too healthy.
Read MoreNew Website Launched: Bike and the Like
I don’t do much freelance work any more. Mainly because work + family + gaming habit + blog doesn’t leave time for too much else. However, I do have a couple of clients and I recently redesigned the website for one of them — Bike and the Like.
Read MoreSmileyCat Website 2009 Uptime Report
I just got my 2009 yearly uptime report for this website. It was offline for a total of 6 minutes and 3 seconds, which is better than 99.99% uptime!
Mytheon Website Launch
If it’s been a little quiet around here lately, it’s because I’ve been busy with, among other things, launching a new website for Mytheon, the next game from True Games Interactive. Read More
New Year; New Job
In my previous post about the NCsoft West site redesign I mentioned that was my last project with NCsoft. That’s because I’ve moved on to take on the role of running the web team for another MMO publisher, True Games Interactive. Read More
Reflections on a Web Site Redesign
When I joined NCsoft a little over a year ago, one of the core things I wanted to improve was the main US web site. Well, it took somewhat longer than I had planned, but recently the redesigned site went live.
Read MoreTwo New Web Site Launches
The NCsoft web team has been busily working away, and recently launched redesigns for a couple of our game web sites.
The first is for our City of Heroes superhero game (shameless plug: 14-day free trial available).
Read MoreOperation Immortality: Your Chance to be Immortal
On October 12, 2008 NCsoft colleague Richard Garriott is going into space. He will be the 6th private citizen to do so. Richard is the vision behind our science fiction MMORPG Tabula Rasa.
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