Archive for July, 2008
I’m a huge fan of A List Apart. It’s a wonderful website that shares knowledge in all areas of web; aesthetic as well as functional design. It’s a great resource for any and all web developers. If you are a web developer of any sort I’m sure you’ve heard of the site, if not I’m going to punch you in the </head>.
Last year A List Apart created an amazing survey that gave me a better grasp of where my future was going and how my current career choice stood against others in the field.
I — like many — am a huge advocate of clarity and this survey definitely provided it. This year I’m thankful to say that I was able to contribute and submit my 2 clicks … OK so it was more like 5.
If you’re a web developer in any sense of the word I strongly encourage you to contribute 4 minutes of your time to filling out the survey.
July 29th, 2008
Thumbing through Google Reader and I ran into this website courtesy of Happy Katie. She’s a rock star when it comes to the do’s and don’ts of the interwebs. She defines trendy within the blogosphere and is a people hugger in general.
But this post isn’t about Katie, this post is about the website I found via Katie. A website called “We all Hate Quickbooks.”
What does this one web page do?
This one web page looks at conversations coming from Twitter. The website filters out (pulls) conversations that mention Quickbooks. It’s an interesting way of observing what people have to say about Quickbooks without ever making them fill out some survey or poll. In other words these are people giving their honest opinion [, well about as honest as it can get].
What fascinates me is that they’ve managed to completely bend [, maybe even break] what Werner Heisenberg has to say about close observation. It’s been stated that you can’t observe anything closely without affecting it. I think that’s exactly what this web page is doing, until it gets too popular of course.
Someone who might massage your brain a bit more is Jane Goodall (the chimp lady), she ran into this same dilemma as well.
This observation seems pretty close to me, but maybe I just misinterpreted the statement and they’re only referring to close in regards to physical proximity.
I just thought they idea was clever, there is so much information being flung from the corners of this world you really don’t have to ask (bug) for it anymore … just know where to find it and organize it into a usable, non-bias, digestible format.
This idea may just set a new standard for performance ratings and quality assurance surveys. No more filling out that form that doesn’t give me immediate results but yet somehow manages to make me feel guilty enough to fill out. Ok I’m lying, I never fill it out … but someone has to … why else would they keep making them?
July 23rd, 2008
I want an iPhone! No I don’t, yes I do! Arrgh I’m a pirate.
I like my regular old Samsung phone, it has what I need … it’s a phone with text messaging. That’s all I really use.
Enter Will.
He shows me twitterific, facebook, gmail, gtalk, google maps, google search, the easy voicemail system, and contacts section, oh and wordpress (blogging from your phone) oh my.
How dare he accidently sell me. I use all of those things, and now I don’t have to be stuck at some desk in my home or office.
Ok, so he didn’t tell me about the wordpress thing, but still you get the point. It’s the thing I never knew I always wanted.
There is one thing and one thing only keeping me away and that’s the AT&T network. Verizon rules, can you hear me now? – Good.
July 21st, 2008
Today I purchased a printer on NewEgg. When I finished placing my order it asked me to print the confirmation page. Sad days.
July 20th, 2008
Went to see The Dark Knight on Friday and I don’t regret it. I honestly only wanted to go see it because it was one of Heath Ledgers last movies (he still has one more coming out called The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009).
It was a-mazing to say the least. Heath Ledger as the Joker — brilliant! I’m not ready to say that he was better than Jack Nicholson, but it he does help you to see the Joker in a whole new light
The story line wasn’t bad either, lots of twist and turns … dark, but not too dark … cheesy but not too cheesy. Just right. I give it 2 thumbs way up and a toe.
July 20th, 2008
Went [indoor] Rock Climbing yesterday. It was awesome. I’ve been 3 times total now and I’m loving it more and more each time. Did some extreme courses this go-around and came out of it with tiny scratches nothing worth showing off.
I’ve got plenty of running going on and climbing is there, now for some swimming … that would be nice and is very much missed.
We’ll (@Jman2k3, @heavymetalguru, @holtkampw, Jennifer, @karaet, @eloy) do a better job of taking pictures next time and publishing some of our new found heights.
This trio [Will, David, and Justin] can also be found at http://www.asklg.net/.
July 20th, 2008
Ahh the 4th of July. Man Christmas. You cook meat, you drink good drink, play with fire, you make things explode, you hang around outside, and talk about manly men stuff. While the women are inside preparing the meat (accounts for 80% of actual cooking), and squeak to each other about things they find pretty and who’s not talking to who now.
The 4th of July is under appreciated by most, but I’m beginning to believe that it might be one of my new favorites.
July 6th, 2008