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Hello! My name is Noel Hurtley and I am a professional web designer from beautiful Vancouver, Canada. This is my blog where I share my latest photography, talk about design and occasionally rant about the absurdities of politics and religion.

Binary: Two barren trees stand in-front of the glowing sun on a cold morning in Blaine, Washington.

Binary: Two barren trees stand in-front of the glowing sun on a cold morning in Blaine, Washington.

Twenty One

I’m twenty one today. Now you’ll have to excuse me while I nurse my white chocolate martini.

George Carlin, 1937 — 2008.

George Carlin, 1937 — 2008.

The combined market share for, say, Firefox 3 and Safari 3 is larger than the overall market share for Mac OS X. Plenty of developers write desktop software that only works on the Mac — why aren’t more people writing apps web apps that only work in truly modern web browsers? The first one to do it is going to be a sensation. John Gruber

Suburban Tiger: Barley sits in the shadows of the wood blinds as he watches his unwitting prey.

Suburban Tiger: Barley sits in the shadows of the wood blinds as he watches his unwitting prey.

The 2008 Democratic primary in just eight minutes.

Word Clock Screensaver

Word Clock is a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence. Very cool.

Thanks, Mr.Hipster Record Store Clerk

Thank you for judging me on the CD I bought yesterday. Our passive-aggressive altercation made me realize how conformist I am for buying an old Rage Against The Machine album. Your condescension was just the intellectual wake-up call I needed.

Freedom: A huge Bald Eagle soars through the beautiful blue skies.

Freedom: A huge Bald Eagle soars through the beautiful blue skies.

John Cage said that fear in life is the fear of change. If I may add to that: nothing can avoid changing. It’s the only thing you can count on. Because life doesn’t have any other possibility, everyone can be measured by his adaptability to change. Robert Rauschenberg

xkcd on security holes.

xkcd on security holes.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs

A New Beginning

We fill our lives with seemingly endless complexity: a never-ending train of beaurucratic decision making and other wastes of time that take us away from this beautiful world we all share. Think what you will… but I’m taking a stand against this insanity.

Welcome to the new NoelHurtley.com now powered by Tumblr. It’s cleaner, friendlier and has a renewed sense of purpose.

I hope you like it.