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	<description>I write about coffee, the web, design &#38; typography, personal projects, and my life.</description>
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		<title>My Obsession With Bags</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you see me walking around campus, or around town, or (starting very soon) around the city, you'll almost always see me wearing a messenger bag on my back. I catch shit for it sometimes—people tease me about having a "man-purse". I shrug it off, but in a way it's true. ]]></description>
		<link>http://jayeblog.com/2010/06/my-obsession-with-bags/</link>
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		<title>Extending Chrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime about six months ago, I stopped using Firefox as my everyday web browser and switched to Google Chrome. Why? Because it's fast, like browsing the internet on a rocket ship. My personal productivity suite includes a lot of Google applications (Gmail, Calendar, Reader, Docs, Voice, even a little bit of Wave every now and then), and their browser is just better optimized for the kinds of scripts those apps run. I still think Firefox is the most solid web development platform available, but if I'm not working on a web project I'm using Chrome instead.]]></description>
		<link>http://jayeblog.com/2010/01/extending-chrome/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not gay, but I have gay friends.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just heard about a Church in Maine that's actively soliciting its members for money to fight against the recent law passed in that state to legalize gay marriage. They have a contact page, so I wrote them an email. You should do the same, if you've got a spare minute. I pasted mine below.]]></description>
		<link>http://jayeblog.com/2009/09/im-not-gay-but-i-have-gay-friends/</link>
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		<title>Geeking Out Over Google Voice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm still midway through writing a monster-post about my preferences and sensibilities when it comes to coffeeshops—a topic that I think about and talk about more than anyone of sound mind should—but it might be another week or so before I'm finished with that. In the meantime, I want to talk about Google Voice.

Google Voice is the descendant of a product called GrandCentral, acquired by Google two years ago in July 2007. I heard about it in the spring, when they launched the beta and invited users to sign up for invitations. I did so, and finally got my invitation on Friday.]]></description>
		<link>http://jayeblog.com/2009/07/geeking-out-over-google-voice/</link>
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		<title>Signs and Type</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been in the city for three weeks now, and I've discovered that one of my favorite things about this place is the sheer volume of signage around me. Because signage means typography, and looking at others' typography is fascinating.

Seriously, type is everywhere. A type geek who keeps his eyes open around here can learn a ton just by observation. Face selection, placement &#038; positioning, integration with the overall design—examples are abundant, both good and bad.]]></description>
		<link>http://jayeblog.com/2009/06/signs-and-type/</link>
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		<title>Summer in the City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reminded today at work that some people actually read my blog, so maybe it's time for an update. Things have changed since March.

For starters: I'm in New York City, working at R/GA, a digital advertising firm in the Hell's Kitchen area. They do all kinds of good work, for a lot of different brands. I'm on the tech team, doing front-end development, mostly Javascript and CSS.]]></description>
		<link>http://jayeblog.com/2009/06/summer-in-the-city/</link>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve Been Up To</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ach, it has been an unbearably long time since I last Jayeblogged. I promise, I'll be back to it very soon. In the meantime, check out some of the stuff I've been doing.

My iPhone site is completed. Only viewable on Mobile Safari.

RITI Mobile is complete, too. It's an improv game library and random word generator, and it's really awesome. It's technically viewable on a desktop, but you really want to use an iPhone or an iTouch for this one too.

I designed some print media for the new teas we're getting at the Leaf &#038; Bean. I'm very pleased with them.]]></description>
		<link>http://jayeblog.com/2009/03/what-ive-been-up-to/</link>
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		<title>A Survey of College Websites in the Northeast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I looked at a whole bunch of .edu websites. I mean a whole bunch. Using Wikipedia's List of American Institutions of Higher Education, I looked at the front page of every single listed college in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The final number of pages visited came to over six hundred—how my puny little internet connection managed to feed me all of that data in under three hours, I'll never know. But I visited every single page, and I picked my top ten favorites of the whole bunch. Those ten are listed below.]]></description>
		<link>http://jayeblog.com/2009/02/a-survey-of-college-websites-in-the-northeast/</link>
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		<title>Javascript is dead.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Javascript sucks. I mean it really sucks. It sucks to code and it sucks to debug, it's clunky, and the notion of Javascript cross-browser compatibility is a joke. I often ignored Javascript altogether in my early days, using the classic "well, a lot of users turn it off, so what's the point?" argument to cover my ass. In the face of the latest W3Schools statistics, however, it's clear that excuse no longer holds water—as of January of 2008, the W3C claims that up to 95% of their visitors are supporting Javascript in their browsers.]]></description>
		<link>http://jayeblog.com/2009/01/javascript-is-dead/</link>
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		<title>A Jayeblog Announcement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jayeblog's a bit dusty, and for that I apologize. Life is busy for a third-year undergrad, and I've had a string of false-starts the last few times I've sat down to write here. It's something I'd love to do more often, but I've discovered a few bugs with my blogging process.

Most of the time I'm sitting down to write about some new project I'm working on. As soon as I start to write, though, I inevitably open up Dreamweaver and begin fiddling with the project instead of blogging about it.]]></description>
		<link>http://jayeblog.com/2009/01/a-jayeblog-announcement/</link>
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