Visual Lizard
Julian Moffatt
Julian is one of the founders of Visual Lizard Inc and a web/tech-junkie if there ever was one. He has a small collection of iPods (3 and counting) and a Blackberry 7250 for those times he is actually away from his computer.
Having been first introduced to computers at the tender age of 6, Julian has had at one point or another: an IBM PC XT, an Apple 2e, a Fujikama 286 (with a 256 colour monitor!!) through to the first computer he personally purchased, a glorious 486 PC with 40MBs of hard drive space and a 16-bit graphics card for $4200 in 1990. Coincidentally, that was his first loan as well. However, it was the 486 that led to the discovery of newsgroups (remember alt.rocknroll before Usenet?) and Pine, the worlds worst application for email ever. In-fact, some would say that his addiction to X-com and Pine caused him to take a break from University to pursue "something to do with computers dad". The rest is history as they say.
He works with a MacBook Pro in the office and is equally at home in front of Linux, Windows or OS X operating systems. He is project manager, design shepherd (he speaks designer fluently and has been known to run in certain design circles under an alias) and CSS guru. He also brow beats the guys in the office about accessibility, Search Engine Optimization and the importance of music to the soul.
When Julian is not actually working, he can be found enjoying time at the hockey rink with the guys, beating small synthetic dimpled balls across acres of manicured land or just hanging out with family and friends at home or the cottage.
In spite of all of the above, Julian has an awesome wife, two crazy-cute daughters (3 and 1), 2 cats and a dog that has moved out citing breach of contract under the "no-child-and-dog-cohabiting" clause. She visits from time to time, but can be found relaxing on a pile of sheep-skins at the grandparents house most days.
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News from Lizard HQ
It has been awhile since we last spoke. For that, I’m sorry. However, we have been as busy as ever in the last few months (June, July and August) which has led to some radio silence on visuallizard.com. Here is a round up of what we have been up to: Nathan has left Visual Lizard for...
Welcome Back
As a small business owner you have be involved in all aspects of your business in order for it to succeed (or maybe that’s just my own insecurities ... I’m sure the guys enjoyed me being gone). When you actually get out of email range for a few weeks, the first thing you are greeted...
Science Machine as Built in Illustrator
Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo. For additional detail on the final image, you can check out Chad’s Flickr page. Amazing work!
37Signals Updates Basecamp With Reply via Email
We here at Visual Lizard have been using Basecamp from 37Signals for almost a year and half now. Basecamp is a simple online project management system. We use it to track our projects, milestones, communications, associated files, to-do lists and the time we spend working. To say they we depend on...
Google Posts Their Best Looking Logo Ever
Google.com posted a special 50th anniversary edition of their logo in honour of Lego’s birthday. While there has been much debate in the past about how good or bad the Google logo actual is, today’s logo puts all that to rest. Simple design rule: When your logo looks good in Lego you...
From The Web
Oct 08, 2008
Lustro
A neat little app that lets you export your Address Book (OS X) contacts into various formats, such as CSV, which was exactly what I needed.
Linked by Julian
Oct 06, 2008
Viking Quest Game
And there is a DVD box set too! Yup, I.
Linked by Julian
Sep 25, 2008
Get more from Mail
Bookmarked because I keep forgetting the boolean operators for Spotlight in Mail.
Linked by Julian
Sep 18, 2008
Daring Fireball: There's Nothing There
Gruber pretty much sums up the entire Seinfeld, as Microsoft, experiment reaction and why it is so telling about Miscrosoft as a company. It is a shame, because I thought the ads, at the very least,...
Linked by Julian
Sep 16, 2008
Bluff: Beautiful graphs in JavaScript
Nice Javascript library for making graphs. And who doesn.
Linked by Julian
Sep 15, 2008
Shhh, Listen. Rare Soundscapes of Vanishing Habitats
Sad.
Linked by Julian
Sep 15, 2008
Airsharing for the iPhone
A nifty little app (free right now) that allows you to send files to your iPhone via a local network mount. It also adds support for a bunch of doc types.
Linked by Julian
Sep 12, 2008
Most common fonts for Windows, Mac and Linux, font survey results
Bookmarked because I can never remember these when I need to know them.
Linked by Julian