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I know, I know…the site needs a real design
Dec 17th
As many of my colleagues/friends have pointed out, my blog looks terrible ;(. I really have to work on a new layout and design. Hopefully I can work that out by Christmas, who knows. Having worked with Drupal for years this shouldn’t be too difficult, but if anyone knows of a good base theme to use as a starting point for creating a new them, feel free to drop a comment! Otherwise I have to do some reading on Wordpress theming.
Update: I changed the theme to something a bit more appealing, but I can’t say that I like it much if any more. Hopefully I’ll have time to work on this a bit more seriously.
When is taking it too far really taking it too far?
Oct 17th
I’m a late adopter, for sure. Even so, it took me forever to jump on the “social networking” bandwagon, and even now I only use it to follow my family’s posts when I’m travelling. In my brief exposure to Facebook, I’ve found they have all manners of useless, time-consuming junk.
This afternoon, we receive a call from a number I don’t recognize. I answer the phone, they ask for my wife and I pass it off not knowing the absurdity to follow. Turns out its my wife’s boss. Naturally I figure its something to do with work or at least _relatively_ important. My wife and her boss are friends, but their friendship couldn’t be considered “close”. I doubt I could have been more wrong. I watch my wife get the details of her boss’ Facebook account. Even at this point, I’m curious but not quite aware how ridiculous this is. Then I see her open this game, I don’t know the name — nor do I care, but she hops in the game to MAKE SURE HER BOSS’ VIRTUAL PIES DON’T BURN. As absurd as it is, people do it every day — and enjoy it. I’m no stranger of video games, I myself have played World of Warcraft for some time now, I just recently quit. But at least there is something to work towards and competitiveness and difficulty associated with these sorts of game. Read the rest of this entry »