Kelly Smith | Made in Seattle

Kelly Smith of Curious Office on the internet, design and photography.

Microsoft cracking some skulls…

This post about someone new taking over the Windows team is really just another way of saying that Chris Jones and team are embarrassing the top brass by making them announce yet another Vista delay. Frankly, I kind of feel sorry for Chris and team because the reality is that Microsoft should have used what [...]

Skype, Founders Charged With Racketeering

This is a really interesting story. And people wonder why Hollywood is still a bit skeptical about using these kinds of technologies for movie distribution? Now, I know that Skype is all about the phone and not movies but read the article and you’ll see what I mean. This has definately been a great month [...]

HostRocket

My site was down for a few days because HostRocket said my credit card had been failing for two months. True enough. Losing your wallet isn’t much fun because it takes months to restore everything back to normal. Updating my hosting account was one that I had forgotten. I must say though, every time I [...]

PixelSurgeon: final chapter?

So here’s the recap. My name and a website I helped pull together (by subbing it out to another friend) get acusssed as being a rip of PixelSurgeon. I get hundreds of flame mails (because they posted this claim to a bunch of forums before contacting me about it.) My company site gets targeted. So [...]

On web terrorism…

Today has been a fairly humorous day for me. I’ve worked in this industry for quite awhile now and have never (until now) witnessed web terrorism personally. Web terrorism is where people send you anonymous emails without their real names or links to their URLs and say things they couldn’t or wouldn’t possibly say to [...]

Site copying?

So I wake up this morning to about 100 spam messages about me copying the secondave.com site. I’m simply amazed at the hate mail I got over this topic. Guess what folks. Somebody had submitted a single html page and CSS sheet which was the basis of that design two years ago to some open-source [...]

More PixelSurgeon

So I wake up early this morning to check my email and see yet another few dozen emails on the PixelSurgeon topic. As you might guess, most are pretty much hate spam. Much to my surprise though, there were actually several pretty nice (and funny) ones. There are some decent folks out there. I’ll continue [...]