It was made this year, though it collects a few places I’ve visited on trips to Baltimore in the past three years. It’s a log: a list of places I want to remember and maybe revisit. And a map: showing me where things are relative to each other. Its not for driving directions. There is a ‘to-do’ list in the left column, which I’ve discontinued using.

It’s big and I can hang it on my wall, which I can’t to do with a Google Map or Yelp. See it on flickr and direct link to full-size image (1 MB)

More importantly, I’m back from my blogging hiatus. I’m hoping to average a few posts a month. Sounds reasonable. To start, here are the books on my shelf right now, all recommended:

• 101 Things I Learned From Architecture School by Matthew Frederick
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
• Visualizing Data by Ben Fry
• The Works: Anatomy of a City by Kate Ascher

No more months of inactivity! More posts to come shortly, stay tuned.

• Homicide by David Simon
• How to Conquer The New York Times Crossword Puzzle by Amy Reynaldo
• Robot Building For Beginners by David Cook
• Observing the User Experience by Mike Kuniavsky
• Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton
• Head First Design Patterns by Elisabeth Freeman & Eric Freeman

Idea for the post comes from poetpainter.

I switched jobs! I left my job as Web Developer at 3000k, a small web shop in Worcester, about three weeks ago to join Meridias Capital. The Meridias Capital public site is a bit sparse so let me fill you in. The company is a mortgage finance lender centered out of Las Vegas with a secondary office in Salt Lake City. They have a couple of enterprise-level web apps that help faciliatate the mortgage finance process internally. This is where I come in.

I’ll be working out of Boston with Michael Lowry, Director of UI, to architect, design, and build the UI for these apps. I was hired for my traditional front-end skills: XHTML, XML, CSS, JS, etc. but soon after my arrival there was a strong push to investigate Adobe Flex. After some research and prototyping we came to the conclusion that Adobe Flex was a better solution for our RIA then a traditional HTML/AJAX approach. So we have cast off into a brave new world!

Note: We will be looking at add another member to our small Boston UI team shortly. If you have Flex experience or experience developing web apps with Flash, drop me a note. We will post proper details on the opening shortly.

Update: Both bikes have been claimed : (

Note: They currently reside in Manchester, NH and will not fit in my car. So either you would have to pick up, ride out, or wait till I get a bike rack.

Japan 2005 – Photo Gallery