Monthly Archives: February 2011

Around Town

Good day.

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How’s things? Good, good.

I’m still job-hunting, but I’ve had a couple of interviews.

I’m excited about the big Apple press event on Wednesday – it’ll almost certainly be the iPad 2, but what will it do? What changes will it have? Cameras, better screen, more memory, will the default for it be 3G (or the Verizon equivalent) and a lesser reliance on wifi? (That matches with some of the speculation of the upcoming MobileMe transition to a ‘cloud’ environment.

Will they announce iOS 5, or iOS 4.3, or both? (“iOS 4.3 released today, iOS5 coming later this year.”)

I’ve considered trying to seek some Apple training, but it’s hard to come by if you’re not an Apple employee. I don’t mean the software side,I mean the hardware side, going in and messing with the guts of a device. (This could be very helpful if I got a not-quite-working MacBook Air or something like that off eBay, then fixed it.)

Still, must keep job searching. hope everyone is well out there, and we’ll talk soon, I’m sure.

Oh, and by the way – it still fries my noggin to consider the phrase ‘Oscar-winning composer Trent Reznor’. I’m not entirely sure why.

Philosophy

Niches

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One of the things I’m trying to work out is my niche in the greater world. What do I do? What do I have to offer?

I really like working with WordPress, but when i think about theme design, or writing a plugin, there are so many good ones that I have no idea where to start, what I can bring to the table to stand out. What is my place, where can I get my thing?

That’s the next level, and it’s a level i need to find my niche and get into it. I want to find ways to be more than just this guy poking at things.

I’m realizing that I may not know enough about that level to know how to get there. so that’s my next step: learning enough to get there. otherwise there’s no way to get there.

Reviews

Comic Referral: Ekwara

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Ekwara is a comic drawn by my friend Tod Wills. Tod is a rather prolific artist – there’s 153 pages of Ekwara story, and a the equivalent of full single-issue comics just about how the world works. There’s a lot of solid worldbuilding in Ekwara, even if it’s not immediately obvious – because you learn as you go on.

Tod’s also doing an anthropomorphic version of Dracula – yes, the Bram Stoker novel – as well as other comics, art by commission both full-size and user-icons, and in general doing art. Because Tod does art, and that’s what Tod wants to do.

So I would suggest going and reading Tod’s things. You might find something there to impress you. I know that i usually do.

Philosophy

Differences.

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I’m from the East Coast – the New York City area – originally, now living in Seattle. And there’s differences – not as many as you’d think, but more than a few.

And right now I’m seeing a big one: the weather. It’s horrible back on the East Coast right now, crazy snow, ice, slush… all good reasons to just stay inside for a week.

In Seattle, it’s 35 degrees – cold, but clear. It’ll get into the 40s, and that’s good enough to go for a walk.

I think I like this a bit better.