Web design

Cutting Corners or Chasing Tail?

Someone even older and wiser than me used to say “cutting too many corners will have you in a circle, back where you started”.

Silver Linings

I’ve been so busy with my first job; yes real job, not freelance; as a web designer that I didn’t get around to removing the “wannabee” tag from my blog. That’s one of the silver linings of being fired from that coveted first job yesterday. I don’t really have to remove the wannabee tag if [...]

FaceBook Vanity Goldrush for Names, Yawn!

Big buzz on Twitter today and elsewhere about the ‘net is that FaceBook will begin implementing vanity urls at midnight Eastern U.S. time on June 13. In other words, FB users will finally be able to direct people to their FaceBook page via a url similar to http://facebook.com/yourusername. Providing that your chosen user name is [...]

Another Thing About Twitter

“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” – Winston Churchill And that’s another thing about Twitter. Quotes in my face allala day and night. I love it! I wouldn’t go searching for these on my own. I’m not even smart enough to know I need ‘em.  But [...]

What is it about Twitter?

As I said yesterday, I find it easy to write daily on Twitter. Usually several times a day, in fact. I got to wondering why that is when I find it so hard to write even a minimal blog post sometimes. Here’s what I came up with. Why Twitter is easy for me and blogging [...]

Listening too much to talk

Or write, as in this case. Where did a month go? Wow, let’s see I’ve been continuing my education (a 400+ page book on the intricacies of DSL is a long labor for me), getting to spend lots of family time (all the kids were home lately, some of them twice) and rowing as hard [...]

Sidetracked again

I tried to rekindle this blog the other day with a quick post and the total intention of getting right back here. I’ve got big plans for this site ‘yanoe ;-) Best laid plans of mice and all, the next Tweetdeck minute, I’m having major problems with my Internet connection. Can’t connect at all. I’m [...]