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 […]
Year: 2008
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 […]
Designing for you.
I recently decided to redesign this blog. (At the time of this posting, you can obviously see that it is not finished yet as the design of this site has not changed.) I am a self-proclaimed PHP expert, I know CSS and HTML pretty well, and I dabble in Photoshop. One thing I lack though, is creative vision. I am by no means a designer. I know the code and the tools, but I am not artistic. Give me a mockup to work with, and I can code it, but beyond that I’m pretty useless. The initial re-design of the blog, which I spent about 30 man-hours on, came out looking very generic: Header, content, widget column. I really wanted something unique, and bold. Something not too overbearing but still very easy to use. I was unable to come up with anything myself. The first redesign was basically centered around […]
Making a bad situation worse
Why do people have a tendency to sulk? Have you ever been really mad at someone, and just held a grudge? Too stubborn to back down when you know you were wrong? Have problems apologizing? Purposely use body language to let your girlfriend know you are pissed off at her, but never actually say anything about it? Roommates having a party you don’t feel like participating in, and instead of just sucking it up and having fun, you isolate yourself from the group? I hate all of these things, and yet, I also do them on a regular basis, but why? I really don’t know, to be honest. If i did, I would probably be a much happier person. Sometimes it is easier to just stomp off in a 5-year-old huff then it is to just accept a situation for what it is. I have always been semi anti-social, not really in a bad […]
I shall name my first born son “Violence”
Seriously. What is with the way people name their children these days? Is the desire to be unique in some way so great that a name like Mike, Christopher, or John just not good enough? Take a look at some of the craziest names celebrities have given their children quoting this article, I have taken my favorites since I don’t think all of them were that crazy. Princess Tiaamii (Jordan / Peter Andre) Audio Science (Shannyn Sossamon) Camera (Arthur Ashe) Fifi Trixibell (Bob Geldof and Paula Yates) Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily (Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence) Kal-El Coppola (Nicholas Cage – Kal-El is Supermans birth name) Lark Song (Mia Farrow) Moon Unit (Frank Zappa) Dweezil (Frank Zappa) Ahmet Emuukah Rodan (Frank Zappa) Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen (Frank Zappa) Sage Moonblood (Sylvester Stallone) So apparently this trend amongst celebrities has begun to trickle down into average homes. This is the reason […]
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