Website and Weekend

by | May 7, 2003 | Imported Entry

The website is nearing completion, at least in terms of design. I still need to turn it into a web page obviously but the design is always the hardest part.

I’ve also got an interesting bit of work to do this weekend. Or, more exactly, a full schedule. Friday morning I’d like to take some pictures, probably of myself. Friday night Lauren and I are going to a dance. Saturday is our wedding shower. Sunday we’re going to a church service all about marriage and then out to the beach. Sunday evening, mistakenly, I agreed to take some jewelry photography for Sean and one of his friends. I’m not sure that I’ll be back from the beach on time. I’d like to use Sunday to relax with Lauren a little but I’m concerned that Bergen Hall closes early on Sunday so pushing back my photo shoot might not be an option. I’m waiting for Sean or his friend to email or call to make sure we’re on for Sunday. I hope we can work out a better time because I’d really like to do both.

That’s about it. I’m watching Seinfeld and considering eating the Butter Pecan Ben & Jerry’s I have in the fridge. I’ve got a headache too, in case you cared.

PS: For you’re random link to enraging story of the moment… enjoy. This has “bad fucking idea” written all over it. Unless of course I’m allowed to purchase a huge RFID interference device and carry it with me wherever I go. Remember those scenes in Minority Report when he goes to the mall and the ads talk to him… yeah, that’s bullshit. In a different article I read that one of the potential uses for this would be “smart” ads which would show you advertisements (on your shopping cart) of potential items you might also like given what you already have in your cart. “Since you have chips, want to try our salsa?” sort of thing. Fuck that. The day I see a plasma screen on a shopping cart is the day I bring a baseball bat to the grocery store with me. I refuse to be advertised to while I’m walking around a store. That’s ridiculous. Hell, I think billboards and tv commercials are ridiculous, but that’s a completely different rant. What do you guys think? I can’t be alone in thinking that RFIDs are a really bad idea can I?

Other links: RFIDs, the big picture.

Links

by | May 5, 2003 | Imported Entry

Two links that I need to share, especially with Chris.

Sensation – “The worlds biggest dance event”. I’m not sure if that’s nessisarily true, but they’ve got one heck of a line up. I found this after finding a copy of the 2002 Sensation CDs and wondering what exactly “sensation” was. I have to say that they are absolutely fantastic. I’m trying to find a place to order copies of them but haven’t had any luck. Which leads me to my next link…

Discogs – “building the definitive database of electronic music…”. Now, if that’s not cool, I don’t know what is. Discographies of just about every label, artists, group, etc, and they’re all cross-referenced. Check out the search results for “Sensation: White Edition“. Great CD. Look at those tracks!

Ok, had to get that techno out of my system. I’ll be off having dinner in a little bit. Tasty ribs, here I come.

Redesign

by | May 5, 2003 | Imported Entry

I started working on a little redesign last night. It actually looks pretty good. It’s really simple, just as simple as the design now, if not more so. I wanted to get away from the navigation at the top but it looks like that’ll hang around for at least another version. I think I might just change the number of posts that are displayed here from 10 to 3 or 4. I’m trying to minimize the amount of “scroll” the page has.

I actually had multiple designs for the page, ranging from “journal style” with a paper textured background and a setup similar to this, to a really techie feeling page with an over abundance of eye-candy. I settled on something more “matt” feeling. Clean and more or less simple with some interesting bits here and there.

I would normal at this point in the post direct you to a number of anti-RIAA related articles but I fear that it’s been over done. I merely suggest that you read the Reg on a regular basis. That should keep you relatively informed about what’s going on.

On a lighter note, I’m skipping class today. I had a really bad headache when I woke up and that’s never the way to start a day… so I stayed in bed. It was the only sensible thing to do. 🙂

So, not going to class today leaves me time to work on the redesign some more, figure out what I want to take pictures of tonight, tomorrow and the rest of the week as well as take Lauren out to dinner tonight.

Over the past few weeks, while I’ve had no money, Lauren was kind enough to float the bill for most of our weekend activities. I normal don’t like to let her do that, something in my brain about being “the man” and that I’m supposed to pay for things, or some crap like that. Regardless, now I get to pay back her kindness with a trip to one of her most favorite restaurants, Tony Roma’s. We both really love Tony’s, they have some of the best ribs on the planet. So, that’s where I’ll be tonight.

Oh, and just for the sake of complete randomness, I made a font. Yes, a font. Of my own handwriting even. Go figure. I’m not going to post it now but I will add it to the new version of the “downloads” page once I finish it. If you really want it so bad that you can’t wait for it let me know and I’ll drop you an email.

Prepare yourself for a new design.

That is all… for now.

Sunday

by | May 4, 2003 | Imported Entry

Well, it’s Sunday and yet another weekend has flown by. Yesterday I took care of a little bit of shopping (groceries, photo supplies) so today I can hopefully get a little bit of shooting done. Nothing much, just some portraits here in the house. I think I’m going to bring out the ring flash and take some stuff that way. I didn’t get a chance to arrange anything with models or help so there wasn’t any shooting for personal vision this weekend. These would be for Fashion as a way of getting ahead a little so that I don’t have to do as much next weekend.

I’ve also been trying to come up with a new design for this page. I’ve gotten pretty tired of the gray and orange. Unfortunatly, everything I come up with isn’t making me 100% happy and I’m not going to waste my time putting up something I’ll only want to take back down in a month. I can’t even decide whether I want it vertically oriented or horizontal in “box” form. It’s rather frustrating.

That’s really about it. Lauren is down at the labs and I’m here. I’m waiting on Brittney so I can get the digital camera from downstairs. It’s Jason’s camera but he let Lauren borrow it for her lingerie shower. She won’t be home until 5pm so I’m killing time by playing a little Raven Shield and working on the afore-mentioned webpage.

Matt out.