I think I could spend about a month just working on my personal projects and all of the books I want to read right now and still not be completely satisfied. I’m working on the site right now, and by the end of the weekend I hope to have the archive situation figured out, the search engine situation figured out, and the picture and site of the week pages created and updated.
My office is really really cluttered and messy.
Silverscreen is a theme manager for Palm OS 3 or higher.
This Industry Standard metrics report includes recent statistics on a number of things that Web developers need to know about their audience and the general Web audience.
Brad points me to this press release which proves that Freewheelz.com is indeed an April Fools joke.
I went out to lunch with Doug today and he told me about FreeWheelz.com. I still think it might be an elaborate April Fool’s joke, but imagine how many people will opt for a free car if they can. The example car that is pictured in this Esquire Magazine article is branded with Stay Free Maxi Pad advertising.
Can you just imagine talking to a friend you were picking up for the first time? "I'll be in a Stay Free Maxi Pad mini-van that says 'Heavy Flow' on the hood." Methinks this free stuff with advertising thing has gone too far.
This Salon article confirms what I think most of us that subscribe to Fast Company, Business 2.0, and The Industry Standard already knew: the magazines are getting too big. It also mentions Time’s new entry into this content area: eCompany Now. Based on what it says on their site, that magazine will be availabel in May.
Work on the site continues. I’m struggling with some of the sub-page layouts, so don’t hold your breath.
An exciting day. Too bad I can’t talk about what happened here yet.
I apologize profusely for the lack of a working site beyond this page. I had expected to have time to finish all the sub pages last night, but something has come up that is huge and so important that it superceeds everything else in my life for the next 24 hours. Perhaps tomorrow night.
It’s going to be a really light day for posts. I’ve got tons of meetings and several things that need to get finished and practiced.
You knew it was going to happen sooner or later: Wetlog’s SXSW album.
ROTORtype has some fantastic fonts for Web use. For free that is.(via kaliber10000)
Apparently, redesigns are rampant again. iBoy has redesigned, Keith Brown has redesigned. Is is something in the air?
For the record, and since it’s been the number one source of feedback, there will be a duck up here at some point. Until then see Ben Brown and Weblog Wannabe for your duck needs.
The reviews are starting to come in. riothero says, “Bump’s new design is less bumpy.” (What does that mean?) Heather says, “Ooooo la la. Bump rocks!” Thanks to both of you.
Brad and Derek have both posted their SXSW photos and memoirs. Brad’s had me laughing out loud.
I absolutely respect Lane. Great site, great writing, and he seemed like a really nice intelligent guy in my too limited contact with him at SXSW.(Truth be known I was a little intimidated by the Deep Leap posse. They are a really talented bunch.) I do not, however, think that this site could be quantified as “the bare minimum of creativity.” I, however, have been wrong about these things before.
Okay, its early Monday morning. I’m far from finished with this site, but I got sick of looking at the blue design, and wanted to share this new space age thing I made. Most everything that is an internal link does not work. Sorry. I’ll try to get to those pages as soon as I can.(Read: all my spare time will be dedicated to this task until it is complete.)
Some of the people and sites that influenced me in this design were Derek, Matt, Jack, Heather, and Jason. Big thanks to all of them.(Especially since I met all of them in person last week, aside from Jack who I already worked with.)
A powerful rain and thunder storm will no doubt interrupt my work at any moment now with a power failure.
A powerful rain and thunder storm will no doubt interrupt my work at any moment now with a power failure. 10:40:16 PM
I absolutely respect Lane. Great site, great writing, and he seemed like a really nice intelligent guy in my too limited contact with him at SXSW.(Truth be known I was a little intimidated by the Deep Leap posse. They are a really talented bunch.) I do not, however, think that this site could be quantified as "the bare minimum of creativity." I, however, have been wrong about these things before. 8:28:35 PM
"I am not here to argue for or against the use of Napster, but I will say that since getting on board the MP3 revolution I have purchased more music in the last seven months than in the past two decades, and maybe my entire life" - David Strom
So I bought a Palm VII yesterday. I know what you are thinking: "But that has the same amount of RAM as your Palm V." I know, but I couldn't help myself. I charged up the transmitter last night and activated it. There are a lot more apps for it than I had originally thought, and there are ways to view live Web content despite the constricting "Web clipping" setup.
I'll let you know how I make out.
I can already tell after just using it on a live site for about an hour that Blogger is only going to feed my blogging addiction. I can pound away and not worry about uploading and editing the raw HTML every time I want to add something to my site. I can tell that they have lots of other features to deploy that they haven't yet.
I haven't forgotten about my SXSW pictures. I just got pulled away by the need to redesign here.
brig dares to cross the 3000 word barrier with brig.nu
Via harrumph!, Brix Builder Demo.(do not follow this link unless you have a few hours to play)
I'm a huge Lakers fan. It comes out of growing up in a time when Magic, James Worthy and Kareem were a dominant team. Today they are playing my other favorite team, the Knicks. Is it wrong to be a fan of two teams?
Here we go, new design in effect. A few hours of testing this thing out, and I'll be ready to go live.
I'm taking a break for a few hours to spend some time with Kate and eat some sushi. You can see my progress in turning the previous Photoshop comp into an actual Web page here. I just realized that the angles on the curves in the picture module don't match the ones in the Weblog module, so I went back and redid them. I'll be putting that up when I get back to it. I think you'll agree that it shows more inspiration and effort than any of the previous designs that I have built, even the ones I decided not to post.
Just so you know I'm not joshing you, here's a peek at what the new Bump looks like. I have at least one day of refinements and a day or two of production left to make this happen.
This is really really really not a good idea. I wouldn't get an Internet phone from Sprint for this reason alone.
It's spring here in Atlanta, and I love this time of year. Time to reach into the closet and pull out all of the winter clothes to put them away until next year. It's always strange to me how early spring really hits here in Atlanta after living in the NorthEast all of my life. I see the thin green film of pollen on my car, so allergies should be about to kick in shortly.
It's also NCAA basketball march madness this week. It's my favorite sports time of year, better than the Super Bowl and World Series and NBA Finals etc... I've been slightly more disconnected from it than normal this year because of my trip to SXSW and my preoccupation with all things arthouse. Today is really the first time I've had a chance to check out any games. Go UCONN!!
I guess I have my own sort of march madness too. Some comments made at the Weblogs panel at SXSW have opened up a flood of emotions and the floodgates of self expression too. It was an unintentional aside too. A reference to something someone had written previously that was simply being used as an example in an answer to a question.
I find myself reading and writing far more than I have in years over the last few days. I feel this incredible need to create things and to digest things that others have labored to create. To redesign all of the crappy Web interfaces I have created. To build new apps that I have floating around in my head. To reexplore my relationship with Kate. I have a fiendish amount of energy. Where has this energy been hiding for the last year?
It's not all good, the emotions that were tapped were really painful for me at first. It was like someone had punched me in the gut. It was a moment when I realized my isolation from those around me, that it was self imposed, and that I could choose to cut it loose. I have a feeling that this happens to a lot of people my age. You reach a point when it's suddenly much harder to form close friendships with others. Not in a social sense necessarily, but emotionally. I'm not sure if it's the ability to trust others becomes more difficult, or that, as you become more set in your ways, it becomes near impossible to find others you can connect with.
The bottom line is that I realized that I rarely was expressing my inner stuff. I'm not letting stuff out. Sometimes not even to myself. I gotta work through this because that's really unhealthy.
Slowly Downward is the personal site of the gentleman who has been responsible for Radiohead's site for a while. There's a bunch of good fiction here, and some other content worth exploring.
Okay, so I meant to post last night, but I was exhausted by the time I got home. My office had scheduled two meetings for me yesterday afternoon, so I got off the plane, drove straight to the office, then hit my first meeting. The second meeting was offsite and went until almost 7 pm, so I was just absolutely shredded by the time I got home.
It feels good to be home.
Now that I've had a day to digest SXSW a little, I think that the number one thing I brought home with me was inspiration. I talked to so many talented people who I found so inspiring. People who aren't afraid to do great things and hold themselves to a higher standard no matter what kind of project they are working on. So if you talked to me at SXSW, thanks, you made a difference in my life in some way. You inspired me.
I sorted through the 300+ pictures I took now to find the ones that are suitable for use here. I got about 60 good ones that I will resize and get up on the server tonight. Hopefully over the weekend I will post them to a set of pages.
Harrumph has the best thing ever from SXSW: movies of web people dancing. hehe go there. Her pictures are also really high quality.
I've become re-interested in Applescript for some reason. In tune with that in some equally bizarre way, Hell's Half Acre released some nifty icon oriented Applescripts today.
I read In The Beginning ...Was the Command Line tonight. I don't think I'm part of the target demographic for this book. I found it over simplified, and I can't agree with all of the assumptions and assertions that the author makes, most of which are driven by the authors evolving OS preference. For someone with a limited technical background, and very little awareness of the history of computers, it's not a terrible introduction.
I just got back into Atlanta this afternoon. I apologize for not updating sooner, but will be doing a bunch of posting this evening. I'm still reeling from my SXSW experience.
It's absurd to think that I could possibly capture the things and conversations I have experienced over the last few days. I'm enjoying things quite a bit, and have met so many people I knew only online over the last few days.
Inevitably, the posting of the many many pictures I have taken will have to wait for my return to Atlanta and high speed Internet access. In the meantime, you can see some great pictures on Matt's site (including my now famous clown nose shot) and on Paul's site.
A couple of things worth blogging, first 64 new Audion faces were released this morning, and second, I saw an app so powerful two days ago that I will be buying a Palm VII as soon as I can.
