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Feb 27, 2009 Business

IRL depth

This title is just as misleading, or rather inaccurate, as the other but it had to connect somehow, and using the same title seems confusing.

Continued is for chumps.

What I wanted to do was design a website based around the perception of depth. I think that could be really cool. It’s the kind of website that would impress and inspire me.

I also want to get one done in a quickish manner. And if Futurama has taught me anything, it’s that people hate things they are not immediately familiar with.

So, guys, let’s scale it back a bit. Let’s have things float in the backgrounds, at different depths distinguished by size, opacity, and blur. Let’s have depth alter, and particles and creatures drift, sink and swim, as if deep beneath some alien sea.

An animated background. Isn’t that always a bad idea? No, it’s not — though some might disagree. Adhering too strongly to convention can be a mistake of its own.

That’s not to say this will turn out well. But we can be hopeful.
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Feb 23, 2009 Art

Another secret project – or, the Brad signal

I have a brother. That guy jumped from an airplane, falling something like 220 kilometres per hour before landing in Australia, just the other day. He claims to have enjoyed it.

Guys, I am getting better at keeping secrets.
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Feb 21, 2009 Business

perceived depth

Imagine a company professing to develop for the web but lacking a site of its own. That company is either super cool, or something is very wrong. I choose to believe mine is the former, but that is a clever deception on my part.

Some people are too cheap to spend time developing their website; most are too lazy (“busy”).

What it provides is an opportunity to show potential clients what you can do when left completely unrestrained. That can be a frightening prospect, especially when the reality is that all the amazing things you can do are very much client-specific.
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Feb 19, 2009 Programming

When paths diverge indecision attacks with a sort of brutal pride

Guys, I have a problem. Sometimes a decision seems so trivial it stops me completely, and that was the case today.

I was trying to decide how to pass data:
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Feb 17, 2009 Programming

Prejudice

Last week, I was exhausted and bored and thought I’d try out a new MMORPG. Many people, such as Brad, would decry such a pastime — but I can find it enjoyable at times.

Long ago I would play a relatively simple Asian MMORPG known only as Pristontale. I found, in my search, that by now they had made a Pristontale II. Cool. I downloaded it.

It was big. I ran out of time to play it in by the time it had finished downloading and installing, so I decided I’d try it out later.

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Feb 15, 2009 Programming

returning false; this is a weird post at sheldon’s insistence

Days ago, I shared a conversation with a man named Jeff. We met in an alley off the a lesser-known junction of the Canadian arterial internet pipe.

I was afraid, at first, as he is tall and wildly bearded. But he was not an electronic mugger, and wished instead to discuss an issue encountered while using XHTML Strict.
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Feb 13, 2009 Business

Resequencing the whiteboard

There is a whiteboard on my wall. I’m not sure why or how. I remember putting it there; nailing the tiny grasps to the wall. That can’t be the only answer.

There has to be more to it than that. Doesn’t there?

There is a whiteboard on my wall. On it is not a smaller wall, but a list of things and dates and a few amounts. It tells me what work has to be completed when, and what my next action will be. And it tells me what to work on in the times between.
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