Untropy

I am putting photo(s) up on this thing, in the hope that one of them is at least chosen. No fancy camera tricks in these guys; just raw content. Vote!

A true visionary. A must-read article, if you care at all for how techno-savants think.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs.html?topic=&topic_set=

When I first set things up here, I thought I would use my CMS for the entire site. I didn't realize how much work and how little flexibility that would mean. I was new to it, and a bit naïve.

Well, I have moved it over to it's own subdomain, leaving me the ability to do with the front page as I really want, without having to work out some compromise with my CMS tech. I can design it as I want :~)

Of course, the only problem with that is design time iteself, which can be an issue, and having the motivation to dig into it so far. So, I have to get to work on that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6djQHeqMwQ

A great little video about the attitudes some fonts seem to have.

So, how about this for annoying. I was developing my site and suddenly started having all these pages started having 404 errors with the following text:

No User matches the given query.

No matter what I did, all the login pages were failing. I thought it was a problem with the database, or my code somewhere, but no changes were having an effect. I couldn't figure out what changed, so I did some research and found this simple, albeit less-than-obvious solution.

Help Kill Internet Explorer 6

Awesome.

I think facebook is using these "top five" quizzes and fan lists to build their advertising knowledge. I've seen evidence, and actually thought to do this myself. But, with such a large user base, who are willing to do the market research for them, how could it go wrong. And, why would I make this accusation?

I recently started reading a great book, Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely. In it, he describes some psychological reasoning behind why people don't seem to behave as they think they would. For example, what marketing people do to make products seem more appealing or trustworthy. I won't say much more, except to read it! Oh, and that I took some advice from the book. Chapter 8 (Keeping Doors Open: Why Options Distract Us from Our Main Objective) talks about the effects on a person when they keep their options open, and how that can actually detract from their ability to complete a task, or make good choices. For the past three years, I have been planning this web project but also many other tasks simultaneously. Trying to do so many things at once makes it impossible to finish anything at all. And, new and interesting concepts and ideas are always appearing. So, in order to avoid the cycle of FAIL, I'm halting all other projects until I have something to show for my first post-graduate idea. Then, I may reconsider getting back to the other things. As such, this site won't be getting any significant updates besides chronicling my progress. Maybe once it's done, I will re-design the site using my own template(s).

Included are some Steve Ballmer predictions over the last few years. I wish I got paid as much to sound that foolish..."

Since I have all these plans that I work on here and there, it's only fitting that I bother to update this site a bit more frequently than I currently do. Weekly, perhaps, but maybe more than that. At least weekly though.
There are plans for my photography, and music. Mostly, though, projects deal with the code-y stuff. And, there's always more to say about usability. Not necessarily set up to be a good general source of that, but it's an interest of mine, so why not.