http://kylemeyer.com Kyle Meyer is a 23 year old graphic designer & web developer in Portland, Oregon. He specializes in accessibility and web standards. This site is a combination of both his personal and professional work and ideas. Wed, 07 May 2008 23:59:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en » Download KPSU Magazine Volume 1, Issue 3. 26.5mb http://kylemeyer.com/post/kpsu-volume-1-issue-3-released/ It's a land fill. http://kylemeyer.com/post/the-only-hill-in-florida/ There are few places that are full of nothing but fond memories. Places that inspire a shit-eating grin (see right). Places that can do no wrong, have no negative energy, and lead to no bad times. The cave at Mt Hood Meadows is one. A bent over tree stump, ... http://kylemeyer.com/post/the-cave/ Photographic evidence than I'm better than all of my contemporaries at burying my face deep in snow. This particular faceplant was brought to you by the number ten foot high cornice, and the color white. http://kylemeyer.com/post/abominable/ Great article by Michael Parsons putting into words what I've discussed numerous times with friends; with the internet in your pocket, you don't need to conjecture, guess, or bet any longer. Having zero patience, I love it. http://kylemeyer.com/post/the-bar-bet-is-dead/ http://kylemeyer.com/post/more-riding/ I have a soft deadline of Spring Break 2008 for the beta test. Stay tuned! http://kylemeyer.com/post/lickarrr-liquor-geo-caching-and-pirate-mapping-for-ski-resorts/ http://kylemeyer.com/post/riding-meadows-on-saturday/ Saturday Sunday http://kylemeyer.com/post/pictures-from-mt-hood-meadows-saturday-sunday-december-8th-9th/ Web as the Medium Last week, a coworker and I were looking at entering Kittelson's recent advertising landing pages for the Webby Awards. We began by looking at the previous years' winners in the professional services category, of which we'd be entering under as an civil engineering consulting firm. ... http://kylemeyer.com/post/understanding-web-design/ Who's coming with to snowboard on one foot of snow? I'll be up Saturday and Sunday. http://kylemeyer.com/post/meadows-opening-day-november-23rd-2007/ Well, my invisible audience, it appears that some ridiculous high pressure has built up over Mount Hood and left my dreams of snowboarding this weekend shattered. It does look like the ridge will break on Saturday and more snow will finally fall, hopefully in time for a December 1st opening. Here's ... http://kylemeyer.com/post/high-pressure-ridge-ruins-my-life-i-should-be-a-weather-man/ $5 cover at the door. Free play all night. See you there? View Larger Map http://kylemeyer.com/post/kpsu-magazine-issue-2-release-party-ground-kontrol-november-27th/ http://kylemeyer.com/post/oh-god-oh-god-oh-god-snow-in-the-forecast/ November 15th: Rain on the lenses, barely any white in the photos. Arrrgghhh. November 17th: Rain still on the lenses, no snow at all at the base. November 18th, night time: SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW http://kylemeyer.com/post/constantly-updating-webcam-shots-of-mt-hood-meadows/ I lost patience with my pass to Meadows this year, and went up to Timberline on Sunday to finally get on snow this season. With early openings the last two years (at least, it would have opened early had the road not washed out), it's driving me insane that there is ... http://kylemeyer.com/post/mount-hood-why-wont-you-snow/ Well, I finally got fed up with having consistent downtime and slow page loads, and jumped ship from DreamHost. For anyone looking for a new host, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET is a pay-as-you-go, no bullshit host. You pay upfront and they deduct only the bandwidth you use from the total. It's ... http://kylemeyer.com/post/goodbye-dreamhost-hello-nearlyfreespeechnet/ Note: I wrote this when I was using my own CMS for blogging. I have now moved to the darkside of Wordpress and loving every second of it. As I was writing this site, trying to create my own blogging platform, I noticed that my perma-links were not nearly as ... http://kylemeyer.com/post/how-to-make-bloggish-permalinks-in-php/ Clam Gulch Lodge is a small fishing lodge and vacation destination on the Kenai peninsula in southern Alaska. Owner Gary Katsion wanted to update his site to bring it in line with the services he was offering. This is important, considering two thirds of all people planning travel ... http://kylemeyer.com/post/clam-gulch-lodge/ I started at Kittelson in the summer of 2006. I was tasked with heading up the redevelopment of their website, which was, at the time, a framed site published from Frontpage, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks. The resulting site, launched September 1st, 2006, is a major update to the image and brand ... http://kylemeyer.com/post/kittelsoncom/