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Web sites as book covers. - Jeremiah Peschka

As you know, I love typography. The process of bringing a family of typefaces into being was absolutely fascinating to read about. - Jeremiah Peschka

Ever wonder how SSDs stack up in a real world scenario? Last.fm, a live music tracking and streaming service, has turned to SSDs to meet their needs. They provide some interesting performance benchmarks from along the way. - Jeremiah Peschka

SQL Server 2008 MCM Certification pre-reading list. - Jeremiah Peschka

the second query in this post shows good places to begin tuning queries for parallelism, indexing, etc - Jeremiah Peschka

Year in reviews for books make me happy. I love finding new things to read, especially books that lie far outside my normal reading bounds. Enjoy. - Jeremiah Peschka

A collection of the strangest books I've seen in some time. - Jeremiah Peschka

Beautiful hand drawn typography. - Jeremiah Peschka

Tree Testing is a way to test site structure without having to build the site. There's a tool available that will score a site structure based on the testers' ability to solve certain tasks. - Jeremiah Peschka

FINALLY - Jeremiah Peschka

WTF is Google Wave? Matt Nowack explains a lot of things that I missed about it. - Jeremiah Peschka

Want to know how to use a proper font declaration in your CSS? Look no further. As per the usual, 95% of the work happens because of IE's broke ass understanding of the universe. - Jeremiah Peschka

Want to know how to use a proper font declaration in your CSS? Look no further. As per the usual, 95% of the work happens because of IE's broke ass understanding of the universe. - Jeremiah Peschka

This is what good design is all about - easing communication and understanding. - Jeremiah Peschka

keeping your head above water is tough, matt nowack put together a great article about what's going on in his life and what he's doing to avoid burnout - Jeremiah Peschka

Alan Storm took the time to reformat and comment the bejesus out of John Gruber's URL finding regex which, as regexes go, is a bit of a monster. - Jeremiah Peschka

Stop procrastinating, do work. - Jeremiah Peschka

As much as I enjoy writing HTML, and I do enjoy writing HTML, I'd rather not write as much code. Sergey Chikuyonok took a great idea and put it into practice. He's created Zen Coding. The premise is that you use jQuery style code to write your HTML and it gets expanded into the proper elements - Jeremiah Peschka

I have some laminate furniture that looks decent, but I really hate the laminate. I've tried to paint laminate before and it never worked well. Now I know how. - Jeremiah Peschka

I know I've talked about web fonts a lot, but Jason Santa Maria brings up some great points about the downside of this sudden access to web fonts. - Jeremiah Peschka

Brad Schulz thoroughly describes how to create a loan payment schedule stored procedure using nothing but T-SQL. The end result is beautiful to behold. - Jeremiah Peschka

How much design should we put into our blog posts? How much becomes too much? When is identity equally as important as the underlying content? - Jeremiah Peschka

Brand yourself, specialize, we hear these instructions a lot. I've come to the realization that specialization is a great way to push my career forward. - Jeremiah Peschka

I know what a nested loop join is, that has always been pretty obvious to me. What I didn't fully grasp was how each of the other join types work and when you should be expecting each join type. - Jeremiah Peschka

A year and a half ago, I was largely an amateur at what I do, but I had a passion for it. My passion has led me on some interesting journeys. - Jeremiah Peschka

Of course you should present at your local user group. Jonathan Kehayias dispels some common myths about presenting at local user groups. - Jeremiah Peschka

Jonathan Kehayias put together an excellent explanation of transaction isolation level scoping. This is a tough subject to get a handle on and Jonathan provides an excellent explanation. - Jeremiah Peschka

WordPress plugins are great, but I'm absolutely stoked about the TypeKit plugin for WordPress - Jeremiah Peschka

Creativity seems like something magical that can run away at the drop of a hat, but it really comes from discipline and determination. - Jeremiah Peschka

It's practical, and hilarious, advice. Read it, dammit. - Jeremiah Peschka

Some more insight into inspiration and the structure of creativity. - Jeremiah Peschka