Today! If you're in the neighborhood (or are willing to drive distances for great food, like I am) indulge yourself while doing something nice.

... it still surprises me that it took me over 24 hours to hear of J.D. Salinger's death.

But wait, you're saying, it doesn't make phone calls.

The guys over at ARK Design commissioned me to execute the redesign of their website, www.arkdesign-us.com. The redesign was done by Nick at SpinCycle, and I implemented the e-commerce, news blog, and custom scripting for locating dealers by address. Of course, the content management system is still in beta, but it was time to get it out into the "real world" part of the testing cycle. Check them out and buy some of those cool ass R8 wheels.

The Mandarin Garden website was looking a little stale, so I redesigned it and rebuilt the whole thing into the Joomla CMS with a bunch of custom features instead of the hand-coded PHP that it was running before.

Check out their new site at http://mandaringardensd.com and sign up for coupons and specials in their mailing list. The food is good - I actually took payment of the redesign in salt and pepper chicken trays! Yummy!

Ok, so the site looks like ass.

Finally, another website project has "gone live." *

Hey, it looks like everyone's favorite cutting-edge artist, Shepard Fairey, is under fire for using an Associated Press image to make his now ubiquitous Obama/Hope print

Windows 7 Public Beta (not Internet Explorer 8 Beta2, which I just posted about) is reportedly available for download.

I freely admit that I use the completely awesome combination of DVD Decrypter/ImageBurn and DVD Shrink in order to make copies of films THAT I OWN (back off, copyright Nazis) so that my kids don't scratch them. But I recently encountered a weird problem - "reauthoring" the DVD (removing everything - or nothing - from the DVD except for the film itself) would cause DVD Shrink to instantly crash.