Dana Severance

A new friend of mine expressed an interest to learn a bit about web development, if only to maintain his own website. I sat down to look at my toolset. What do I use?

If you’ve been following me on Twitter or Facebook at all, you know I’ve moved recently. This wasn’t just any excursion, either. This was a massive move from Tucson, Arizona all the way to Portland, Oregon. The little jaunt taught me a great deal about moving, travel, and road trips in general. 

Movies are interesting. They provide us with an escape from reality in a nicely wound little story, if you’re lucky. What’s almost more fascinating than the stories that they choose to tell is how they tell it. Watching a 2005 movie right after a 1968 classic was fascinating in that aspect. So, tonight we pit [...]

Every once in a while I run into a problem that’s just stupid. There’s no other way to describe it. Anyone who codes for the web knows this feeling. There’s always one browser that refuses to comply, and now you have the privilege of finding out which bug is causing Internet Explorer to render differently [...]

I’m a fan of Netflix. I enjoy the concept of being able to have the video store just mail you a DVD instead of going to the nearby Blockbuster. I watched my absent minded mother rack up several hundred dollars in late fees over the course of my childhood. Now, couple this with the ability [...]