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My photos are created either using my Canon 40D and processed using Adobe Lightroom 3 or on my iPhone 4, and posted directly from the Phone. Most of my pictures end up on Flickr as well. Any videos that I film are either shot on a Flip UltraHD 120 or my iPhone 4 and edited in iMovie (OSX or iOS version) which usually end up on Vimeo.

This web site is hosted on virtual private server which I self-manage at Linode. It runs on the WordPress content management system. Any non-standard web fonts seen on the site are hosted by Typekit. It is a responsive design which uses CSS Media Queries to scale to fit your browser width. I use FitVids.js a nifty JQuery plugin to scale any Vimeo & Youtube video embeds.

Articles and links are published through MarsEdit on my iMac 27″ or my iPad or iPhone 4 using the WordPress iOS app. Delayed stats are tracked using Google Analytics and Feedburner. Live stats are monitored using Woopra. I sometimes compose longer posts in BBEdit on OS X or Elements on iOS first before transferring them to MarsEdit.

Any code editing on this site or any of my project sites is done using BBEdit and uploaded using Transmit. When I need to compare diffs, I use Kalidescope.

Web standards are imperative. I try to adhere to them. My HTML should validate as either HTML 5 or XHTML 4.01 Transitional, its layout is constructed using valid CSS, and its syndicated feed is valid RSS.

I have comments turned off on my site. Matt Gemmell penned an excellent post on the subject of not having comments on, which succinctly describes why I have them off. MG Siegler wrote a nice post as well. In short, if you wish to reply, do so over Twitter or on your own website. This website happens to be mine. Only I decide which pixels appear on it.

If this website looks odd on your current browser, you’re probably using a shitty browser that doesn’t support web standards, such as Internet Explorer. You should upgrade to a browser made by competent people.

If you complain about this, I will laugh at you, because I do not care. If however, you are using a modern, standards-compliant browser and have trouble viewing or reading JoelHousman.com, please do let me know.

Note: Bits of text from this page were blatantly stolen borrowed from @gruber because that guy is awesome.