I am currently living it up in Chicago, IL (and/or the surrounding area) and working as a Frontend Web Developer for a rapidly growing sports merchandise company. I moved here and began work on October 5th, 2009. It’s been a huge learning experience and I am just now becoming a little more comfortable with my position here. They do things much differently than I was ever used to, so there were some transitions to be made. But I am happy with it and looking forward to learning more and contributing my ideas and expertise.

In other big news, I am currently seeing someone. We’ve hit it off very well and she has become very special in my life. I won’t share too much here since it is the internet, mind you. But those of you close to me have most likely met her already.

Congrats to my bud Scott on the big steps in his life lately. Lots of milestones going on there.

Let’s see, what else is new? I watched the entire run of The Wire, which is most definitely, far and away the best television show ever. I can’t even find another tv series to get through Netflix because they all pale in comparison. It’s written so well, and the settings and character developments are so deep and well-executed, it’s just a great ride. Try it out, and get through the first season, and you’ll be hooked. It starts a little slow but it is well worth your time.

Breathingfire is going to always be around, but I want to make it a little more accessible for those stopping by, and easier for me to update. I update Twitter much more often (though not that often) than I do here, so I’ll probably incorporate those updates here. I want to make the movie reviews more prominent as well.  And this stale design hurts my eyeballs. However, I have lots more projects due before I can get to this so we’ll see what happens and when.

So if you’re in the Chicago area be sure to give me a ring, and I’ll try to update more often!

Also remember you can access the bracket at http://nbaplayoffsbracket.com

And you can comment here on this post with comments, suggestions and questions. Thanks!

In a CSS layout, any block-level element that has an outline applied to its :focus state (by default in Firefox and most browsers for accessibility reasons,) and that is also enclosed in a container element that has overflow: auto applied to it (a widely used float clearing method) will potentially break the layout on focus.

The fix for this is to include :focus { outline-offset: -1px; } (or a similar value) in your stylesheet. This fixes the issue in Firefox 3.5.2 Win. More testing to come soon (Opera.)

(also returned the graphics and colors on this website. It might be a few until I can redesign.)

Just go to NBAPlayoffsbracket.com and you will be taken to the latest in updates (currently for the 2009-10 season, but each year will direct to the current bracket.)

And for our experimental NFL Playoffs bracket, we’ve implemented NFLPlayoffsbracket.com to make that just as easy.

Stay tuned for more announcements soon concerning the brackets and Breathingfire.com!

If you are new to our brackets, here’s how it works: Throughout the season, the current standings are used to create a picture of how the playoffs would be structured if they began on any given day. It’s a fun way to track your team as they fight through 82 regular season games on their march to the Playoffs. The bracket is updated automatically with the conclusion of each game (refresh to see the changes after the games conclude.)

When the Playoffs arrive, the bracket will be updated with each team’s wins, along with game times and scores.

View the 2010 NBA Playoffs bracket now! If you have any comments or suggestions, please comment on this post. Thanks for visiting!

During the regular season, the 2010 NFL Playoffs bracket is updated live as games finish, giving you an idea of where your favorite team(s) are in the Playoff picture. During the Playoffs themselves, the bracket will be updated with scores, and winning teams will advance along the tree.

We recently completed a total overhaul of the bracket CSS (our brackets are 100% XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.1, of course,) so the bracket looks a little bare at the moment. But we will be sprucing it up over time. But the main theme of these brackets is quality over quantity and usability over flash.

If you have suggestions for how we can improve this or any of our brackets, please let us know by leaving a comment below. Otherwise, check out the 2010 NFL Playoffs bracket!

Note: We’re still working on getting the standings correct, as the current seeds are not lining up right. We’ll update this when we have that fixed.

I removed the graphics from this page because I was sick of looking at them after a year and a half. It was looking stale and amateurish as well.

I’ve played with some different designs over the past couple of months but haven’t gotten anywhere solid yet. I’ve got some big changes coming up in the next couple of weeks (in real life) so I’m not sure if I’ll have time to make things look better here during then or not. We’ll see.

In the meantime, you get white! (and a hideous logo. Wow that sucks.)