Parnis is a Chinese mechanical watch maker specializing in homages to popular styles. The ones that drew my attention are their “pilot”-styled hand-winding watches. I just recently got one — unbranded, with the seconds subdial at the 9-o-clock — and it’s pretty great.

I love Jekyll Bootstrap and GitHub as a blog platform — so much so that I’m sure I’ll write posts more often than once a year. Really. As a frontend developer and pixel-pusher, it might be the most pleasurable way to blog that I’ve tried yet. Not that I’ve tried much, but hear me out.

Just a quick one here, urging you to vote for the Regressive Enhancement, or Use HTML5 Today! panel for SXSWi 2011. Because I can find no better reason to go than to see a couple of friends of mine on stage. (Maybe the BBQ.) Also congrats to Mike Taylor, one of the speakers, for his brand spanking new gig at Opera!

I’ve settled in to my fiancee’s parents’ apartment here in the Dominican Republic, and so far I feel very far away from home. Which is indeed awesome.

rgba() is a supremely useful CSS value. But I noticed, while working on the footer of this site down below, that operating systems render typography using this value in interesting ways.

I'm going to give blogging a shot again. I used to do this quite a bit, but that was about seven years ago. I lost my appetite for it not long after that, out of some combination of laziness and general lack of writing ability. I'm thinking by now I've gotten over the lazy bit.