I lived in Ukraine from 2004-2006. I’ve been back twice, and this summer, I’m going back a third time with my new wife for the temple dedication in KievI have a lot of friends over there, and a lot of places that I want to see still in that country, but I’ll only be there for 5 days. That means a quick trip to one city, or stay in Kiev for 5 days. I need the internet’s help here. If you have ever been to Ukraine, currently live in Ukraine or someday dream of going to Ukraine, I’d like to know where you would go if you only had a short time to be there.
Please Vote
Where would you go in Ukraine?
August 9th, 2010 ¤ 1
5 Great SeeStyles Themes for Coda
July 28th, 2010 ¤ 0
About a year ago I pirated Coda, which is probably the best web development platform on the Mac. After the first update I got a pop-up about how I was stealing from a bunch of poor coders that just wanted to make my user experience better. I felt immediately guilty and purchased Coda that day. It was one of the best purchases that I’ve ever made.
Coda actually has a great feature that allows you the option of tweaking the color scheme and then lets you export your color settings as a .seestyle file so that you don’t have to worry about losing that perfect shade of whatever it is that you wanted so badly.
Here are some of the best examples I found:
Good times with Stumble Upon
July 11th, 2010 ¤ 0
So somebody stumbled my homepage, for some reason. I’m happy about it, other than the fact that now hundreds of people are coming to a site that is otherwise empty. It’s tagged as humor, but I have no idea why. I really wish I would’ve been prepared for that. Mostly because 50% of the links on the homepage are dead and don’t actually go anywhere. Hopefully UNICEF got some good exposure out of that though, because that and the blog are about the only things that actually had anything going for them.
WordPress 3.0 Update and Video
June 17th, 2010 ¤ 0
Thelonious is out.
The long awaited 3 Point Oh.
The friggin’ day after I finish optimizing my blog on 2.9.2.
However, there are a lot of great things about the new update.
This might be the best thing to happen to the internet since ESPN 3′s live streaming of the World Cup.
Here’s my take on the new WordPress update.
Site Update and Explanation
June 17th, 2010 ¤ 0
I’ve been working on chriskirkham.com now for a week or so. I decided it was time to take it seriously. I’m going to start populating the blog with actually useful content about things that actually matter, but until that happens, I’m going to just explain a little bit of what’s going on. So here’s the breakdown:
1. Preparing for the mobile web
2. I’ve put up some ads
3. More frequent posts
Read more about the changes I’ve made
Technorati and Some Changes
June 10th, 2010 ¤ 0
I’m registering my blog with Technorati, because I want everyone over there to realize that I’m a fail blogger. I know they don’t care much about what’s going on here, but I hope that I’ll be able to use the Technorati experience for a future post. recently decided that I was going to take chriskirkham.com in a different direction. Since I started the site I’ve gone from journalism student to freelance journalist to unemployed journalist to online marketer. And yes, I do feel a little bit like I sold my soul when I got hired to be a professional blogger.
Facebook’s Privacy Policy vs. Other Major Sites
May 20th, 2010 ¤ 0
These numbers are actually quite alarming. When Zuckerberg’s privacy policy beats out the constitution by 1,000 words, it’s time to take a step back and think about how important farmville is.
What are the alternatives to a megalomaniacal facebook? Is there any hope for the future?
(I’m voting for tumblr.com)
What do you think?
My CSS is a little wonky.
Twilight Disinterest Graphic
May 19th, 2010 ¤ 0
Twilight bores me to tears.
The book is practically pornography for girls- a bunch of people talking about their feelings and never doing anything.
The perfect life.
But it was so poorly done and so useless and now it’s so huge. But I am never going to watch it. I can think of a thousand better uses for a couple hours, like making a dozen images like this.
Online Education Video Infographic
May 4th, 2010 ¤ 2
So lately my job has had me doing a lot of these sort of things. However, I really enjoy doing it so you won’t find me complaining. I’ve started a second one that is already infinitely better than this one. I’m a big fan of making these, so you’ll probably see more of these in [...]
American Idol Infographic
April 20th, 2010 ¤ 1
My job is weird. And oftentimes I have to remember that what I do is probably more awesome than I care to believe. To prove it I am going to show you the American Idol Infographic that I spent literal days researching statistics for. I just want to show on my own blog (which only [...]
