A line about the other fish getting liver tumors made me wonder if people in that area also suffered liver tumors or maybe if people are smart enough they don’t drink water from the Hudson River.  Anyways, I tried to google-up a map to tell me and I found this map:

you can set all types of parameters except the obvious ones such as all ages, all genders and other races.

Then I noticed that the newest data available is 1994.

These are things that make me wonder.

I wonder if  that causes people who come here and read to think that I lose interest in being a web designer?

In reality, the times when posts are sparse is when I’m actually being a web developer :)

I looked it up the other day because someone on ?? (some answer site) was looking for examples of archaic words. It is not categorized by Merriam-Webster as such.

Good on them! It means “in truth, truthfully, verily”. We need a lot more forsooth in the world!

So, forsooth, I have not accomplished with this blog what I set out in my first post to do and I’m still at the same point I was then.

I suppose I should, truthfully, decide what I really want to do with this domain name :)

Seems like that would be easy enough right?  Wouldn’t you think maybe a little <div> somewhere?

Probably, but that real estate lies within a Site5 Flow Module.

Apparently, I’m going to have to pick that apart to put anything there?

Oh, no, here we go again Lord!

P.S. I’ll let you know how it goes. Or, you can just click on the picture and see if I ever got there.

P.P.S. I got close but it’s not a ringer :)

This guy had made an interesting comment on an article Guy Kawasaki tweeted. The comment was a bit snobby in a designer sort of way so I went looking for his site. Think I found it or at least someone’s site who has the same name and claims to be a designer.

You could kind of piece together that he probably started the site in about 2007 and hasn’t been there since 2009 or so.

It was a nice start, the guy is probably a great designer that’s too busy to bother.

Oops, and that’s where the possible parallels end.

As far as design goes, I know I’m probably always gonna be a wannabee. When I see it, I know what I like, but as far as creating it from the recesses of my brain? Nah, it ain’t in me. The spark just don’t kindle.

I could let that change my course and desires in life but it doesn’t.

It’s no matter. That’s what templates and vector art is for.

I’m good with words, specifically, key words.

We all have our talents you know.

this excerpt is from a totally fascinating article about the 35,000 stray dogs roaming Moscow. Hmmm

I wonder if humans have that same biochemical path?

I was led down that engaging path by Chris Pederick’s Stuff I’m Reading. Chris Pederick wrote two of the very few Firefox Extensions that I use. Web Developer and User Agent Switcher are pretty much the reason I usually work in FF. He’s one of those people who make me go hmmm.

Of course, the FT.com article also led me to Andrei Poyarkov who works at A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution in south-west Moscow but that’s an adventure for another time. I’m losing the bewitching hour as I write this and I have some witching to do.

If you never see me again, it’ll mean I cast the wrong spell and can’t migrate to a VPS.

Now, here I am telling clients to keep their sites updated and fresh and look at my own “home” site!  For shame!  I hadn’t updated WordPress in at least a year and the site is fugly still. Definitely a case of “do as I say”.

Well, the updating is done.  As ever, it was an automatic breeze from the WP Dashboard.  Now we’ll see if I get around to doing something about fugly.

When he asked if that’s my website, I really didn’t have too much choice but to say “yes”. (What could I say, “nah, I just use it because it matches my name.”?)

The phone line got kind of quiet for as minute as I was opening another tab to pull up my site, all the while keeping  my mind on his problem with his site.  Maybe he wasn’t doing what I was doing  because his next question was, “is that where you advertise your web service or whatever?”

As I was seeing the wannabee tag line pop into view all I could say is “no, not really”.

Anyway, he expounded on the 10,000 hour rule from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers, which I was also unfamiliar with.  Turns out that Gladwell says you need to practice something for 10,000 hours before you become a master.

Whoah! Do you realize that if you are talking about an average work week and year, that’s five years?  Yep, 5 years.

O.K., so it’s going to take me 5 years to get comfortable with PHP?  How’s that gonna work in computerville?  In five years PHP will probably have been replaced by AJAX or Ruby or the next best thing we haven’t even heard about yet.

And, since I think I’d like to become proficient in all 3 of the foregoing, it’s going to take me 15 years?  I don’t think so, I don’t even plan on being that old.

Nope, I don’t think we can apply the 10,000 hour rule to computers or old people.  Sorry, Maxwell.  Just ain’t plausible in my world.

I’m a compulsive computer packrat. I know I am because I took the test.

Actually, I didn’t need the test.  I only needed to consider that I have every version of every program I’ve ever installed on my computer.  Also weighing in are every version of every web site I’ve ever built, launched or not, and programs I never installed.  And I suppose I shouldn’t forget 7,890 ebooks (literally) and close to a million emails

I read through all the help for packrats that is available on that page but I don’t think it’s going to quite do it for me.  If I spent the recommended half hour a day de-cluttering my ‘puter while not saving anything, I figure the computer would be clean in 2017.  Then I could start in on my external hard drive.