The design of this site, although it may not appear as such, has probably over 200 combined hours of time wrapped up in it. It started as a mock up drawn in photoshop by my close friend Jin, and the rest was left to me. The goal was simple. I wanted to create something fairly minimal, while still having room for lots of extraneous content, and I wanted it to be very unlike anything other blog I had seen.
Month: August 2008
Web development sucks
As I have been working on my new design, I have realized something: Doing web development sucks. Flat out, sucks. I have deep compassion for those of you who actually decided to do this for a living. As much of a perfectionist as I am, I could not do this job on a daily basis. I closed the doors of my web design business years ago for this reason, and this reason alone. If you thought dealing with your own tastes and perfectionist ways was difficult, try dealing with someone else’s. Most people who design sites, who are not professionals, design it to look nice in whatever browser they are using at the time, with whatever settings they have turned on or off, at the time (see MySpace). This is a perfect example of the old saying ignorance is bliss. If I could develop websites all day to work on a […]
Fabricating reasons to hate people
Hate is definitely not the correct word for this article, at least not in my case, but sometimes, especially when you live with someone, you start looking for excuses to dislike them, and the great thing is, you almost always find the excuses you were looking for. The same is probably true for racism, sexism, and really any other type of blind prejudice. You simply start finding reasons to dislike a person, or a group of people, which are mostly baseless. The problem is, even when you know this, it’s almost impossible to avoid it. Why must it be like this? It is as if one, perhaps legitimate, reason you had to dislike someone, becomes that small rip in your jeans. You know, the kind of rip that every once in a while gets a little bit bigger; One thing is definite, it never gets smaller. It might start out […]
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