Last night I finally stopped by the Tremont Tap House, billed as Cleveland’s first gastropub. From Wikipedia:
A gastropub is a British term for a public house (”pub”) which specializes in high-quality food a step above the more basic “pub grub.” The name is a combination of pub and gastronomy and was coined in 1991 when […]

Last night’s CWSA planning meeting was a great success. We’ve had a lot of new faces, some of them traveled pretty far to attend. Some topics discussed last night:

Trying to advance standards in the local web and business communities without being the CSS gestapo.
Involving other industries in our group. (Maybe we can find a lawyer […]

The AIGA Lecture Series presents Debbie Millman tonight at 6pm. From the AIGA site, Debbie will be discussing:
Why We Buy Things: A historical look at branding ourselves, the world around us, and how it influences the products we buy and why we live the way we do.
For more details, including the address visit the AIGA […]

A few weeks ago, Alana received a parking ticket on our street, for blocking someone’s driveway. There were a few unusual things about this, the first being that no driveways were blocked. The second, is that police never go down our street, let alone ticket. If they did the three junked cars from my new […]

Today marks the second year of World Usability Day. From Usability News:
World Usability Day was founded in 2005 with a mission to increase the public’s awareness of the need to make the services and products important to human life easier to access and simpler to use. Global issues such as healthcare, education and government are […]

I finally had a chance to make it to one of these meetups, in spite of inclement weather and parking in the wrong lot. I’ve been wanting to go for quite some time, but illness/client work/weather has always prevented me from doing so. Not to mention, once I get home and settled on Tuesdays it’s […]

You might have already heard by now the Food Network is coming out with a new show called The Next Iron Chef (which should probably be called The Next Iron Chef America) in the vein of Top Chef and Next Food Network Star before it. Not one, but two Clevelanders will be on the show.

I moved to the city of Lakewood, because it offered a lot of the amenities of living in the city (what with being 5 minutes away from down town) while still maintaining many suburban qualities. It reminds me of the small town I grew up in until I was 10. The neighbors are friendly, there’s […]

In an effort to try and make the most of Fall, Alana and I have been taking the dogs to a lot of fun outdoor activities. Sunday we went back to Bow Wow Beach, and Monday afternoon we visited Kendall Hills in Boston Township / Peninsula. Both were a great chance to try out my […]

Some college officials are trying to create a design district in Cleveland. While I think this is a fantastic idea, I don’t know how well such a thing would pan out. A lot of great designers have come from Cleveland, (Michael Beirut anyone?) agencies are springing up everywhere, and a lot of interesting design is […]

In the past few months the web community in Cleveland has really begun to flourish. Tonight the Cleveland Web Standards Meetup Group gets together. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to make it yet, and I’m ill today so I still won’t be in attendance. On the agenda tonight is non-profit work as well as the […]