April 2nd, 2008

Updated: O'Reilly went with a Golden Oriole rather than a Prairie Chicken.

The cover of my newest book, rendered in SVG. If your browser doesn't support the SVG, you'll see the PNG version.

I used Vector Magic to convert the raster image to an SVG vector drawing. I then "combined" it with another image that I had vectorized.

Painting the Web book cover
October 30th, 2007

Some discussion the last few days about how all of this has lost its appeal; there is no innovation; the party is over. About the same that was said of Seattle, once long ago, after massive layoffs at Boeing. How is it up there, in that ghost town, anyway?

All I can say to those suffering ennui is that if you spend all your time listening to shouts, you lose the ability to hear whispers.