The process of designing, developing, launching, and maintaining a website is complex and full of pitfalls. Dealing with the customer for whom you are developing a website, however, involves a whole new set of considerations. After all, a website is hard enough to build from specifications. But when you have human beings exercising editorial control [...]
My wife and I have been huge fans of Japanese anime for years now. Our fascination started in our teens with shows like Dragonball Z, Gundam Wing, and Rurouni Kenshin. Thanks to the good people over at Cartoon Network (tip of the hat to Toonami in particular), we were later exposed to Fullmetal Alchemist, Yu [...]
You’ve got to be a veteran of classic console gaming like me to remember Lemmings. It’s kind of a puzzle game. You’ve got a steady stream of drone-like little creatures that must be led from one part of an obstacle course to another. To get there, you can give one or more of the lemmings [...]
I’m a nerd. That much is pretty obvious if you spend enough time around me. More importantly, I’m lucky enough to be married to a woman as nerdy as I am (even though she’ll never admit to it). So when Valentine’s Day rolled around this year, I thought long and hard about what to get [...]
Life’s full of ironies. Two days ago I was unemployed with no immediate prospects. Most of the promising interviews I did a month ago had fallen through, leaving me back at square one. Then, out of nowhere, I get two job offers only hours apart. Comedy, they say, is all in the timing. So here [...]
Well, I watched the news the other night and saw that there was a good chance of snow the following day. I LOVE snow! I thought it would be a great idea to take Izzy out in it in the morning, because the temperature would go up and melt the snow by the next day. [...]
People come up with some weird flash games. More than a few of them are addictive, too. Double Wires is both. The objective of the game is to keep your ragdoll character from falling as he moves forward by flinging two elastic tethers to grapple and swing on various two-dimensional shapes. Yes, it’s pretty strange, [...]
It’s been about a month on the job hunt now. Obviously I haven’t found a new position yet, or I would’ve been blogging about my good fortune instead of ranting my frustration. I have had some success, however, in getting interviews. About one a week since being laid off, in fact, which I consider a [...]
Let’s face it; some webmasters are hopeless when it comes to design. They’d rather live back in the internet dark ages when everything was text-based and graphics hadn’t been invented yet. Unfortunately, users want to browse sites with at least some visual appeal. Sure, content is king, but no matter how good it is, nobody’s [...]