What is RSS?

Do you sit there regularly refreshing the mikull.com homepage waiting for an update? Or have you given up, and only check infrequently? More seriously, are you or have you ever done this with any other websites in the past? We all do- Well there is an answer for you: RSS. Over the past week, [...]

the power of narrative

The web is currently torn by two strong forces, seemingly irresistible and irreconcilable. On the one hand, usability and interface engineering argue for simplicity, consistency, and clarity – for a starkly functional minimalism. On the other, emerging web standards and technologies nourish a continuing efflorescence of new approaches to web design. On the [...]

New on DVD: September 27 2005

this week’s #1 pick: robots without a doubt. supposed to be more fun than a barrel of monkeys. for people who are really insane: the britney spears release. wtf is this crap? the ego on this bitch is annoying. the hype machine for carlito’s way: rise to power has been pretty big, but i think [...]

design aphorisms

successful design can be attributed to many known truths. here is some that i believe.

Everything in life is ephemeral, don’t expect anything you design to live forever.
Use technology, don’t let it use you.
Be aware of what you make and what it says, because people live and die through all of the images we create.
We need [...]

hax0r skillz: for the win

upgraded the open source for mikull.com’s gateway (and pretty much everything else that isn’t the message board). wordpress is the name of the game- seems like everything went just dandy. wp says:
This set of improvements and security fixes is in line with our commitment to maintaining an extremely stable 1.5 series. In addition to [...]

reading between the lines.

The major social and moral debates are often simply battles over language. Indeed, whichever side succeeds in choosing the words our culture uses to discuss these issues will control the way people think about them. Abortionists speak of “terminating a pregnancy” instead of killing a baby (or is it “a fetus” or even simply “fetal [...]

for those who didn’t come home

it is said, it is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray; but we must patiently, believingly, continue in prayer until we obtain an answer; and further we have not only to continue in prayer unto the end, but we have [...]

if you have to ask, you can’t afford it

new york has been so much cheaper and better than new jersey in so many ways, i often find myself caught by the old “but how about you gas prices?” line by poor jealous jersey folk.. and although all that time i was by buying my gas in jersey anways, the tables have finally turned. [...]