I am dreXeL. I thought you knew…

After years of study and practice with Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel Painter, my life savings spent on iPods, iPhones, iMacs, Macbooks, digital cameras, study of html and css, countless hours reading technical blogs and trying to stay on top of every new development, I’ve come to realize something…
It’s comforting to return to simple things. [...]

My friend Scott just emailed me with the subject line “you’re on TechCrunch”. So of course my heart immediately leapt straight out of my chest. I took a deep breath. I clicked the link…
Turns out it’s an article about new features and applications for the Ning platform, with a screenshot of a [...]

Well, it looks like all our bitching, moaning and petitioning is finally starting to pay off! I just received a press release in my email last night from Axiotron about the first and only Mac Tablet, now available from Macsales.com. It’s brand new, of course extremely pricey, but it’s made, it uses Wacom [...]

Ok well it took me freaking AGES, but I fiiiiiinally downloaded and started using the Flock browser. I’d wanted to try it for a long time, and started actually feeling guilty about it every time I’d see Will Pate at conferences and talked to him about it. So now it’s done. And [...]

today was extremely special for me because i got to hang out with eddie codel, producer extraordinaire of geekentertainment.tv and just an extremely awesome and fun dude, and eric rice, self-made rockstar and co-founder of Hipcast. that is seriously the abridged version of what those two do, but if you want more go study [...]

Well, I was dragging my feet but now I’m not. Here’s what’s happening:
Stylegoddess.com will be a video blog VERY soon. I will be doing videoed makeovers and they will appear on these pages. I’m also going to be working with an amazing celebrity in the open-source, bay area, technologically-advanced scene. But [...]

I haven’t slept more than a few hours in days and days. All I can do when I’m not at work is study web-related marketing tools, plugins, strategies and read my favorite marketing-related blogs. The plan is to somehow absorb years of others’ study and research in…oh…a week or so. It’s insane, [...]

This is an illustration I did last night with Corel Painter IX. Pretty much just how I looked trying to get the XHTML 1.0 validator to show zero errors on my site. Yup. Still working on it. Soon perfection shall be achieved…

I got an email today from the amazing Tim Westergren, founder and CEO of Pandora. He mentioned something to me about the brand of my site. He’s right. It’s been the thorn in my side for 2 years. It’s funny, I think of my brand as something that will evolve like [...]