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Fri. Jul 16, 2010
A Blog Decade
I bought this domain in 1996, after my experience putting the 1996 Olympics on the web made it clear to me that this medium had a real future. It had enabled me to “publish” text and photos of an Olympic event I had attended just the previous day, which could then be viewed by anyone with an Internet connection. At that time, this seemed just shy of miraculous to me.
But it would be another four years before I discovered Blogger (which served about 19,000 blogs back then), created an account, and added that output to this domain. July 16, 2000.
Ten years ago today.
Fri. Aug 08, 2008
Designer's Work Log
As directed during the conversation with my client, I’m keeping a log of my efforts to repair and rebuild this site. Yes, it will be happening live, so if the site looks REALLY WEIRD right now … I’m workin’ on it, give me a break.
Thu. Aug 07, 2008
The One In Which I Hire Myself
I rarely discuss clients in any way on this site, but I thought I’d share this conversation. Please understand, I’m not normally nearly this rough with clients, but this guy can be a real butthead at times…
Sun. May 04, 2008
This Personal Site
Recently Jeffrey Zeldman wrote about “The vanishing personal site”:
Our personal sites, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed personal site containing professional information, links, and brief bursts of frequently updated content to which others respond via comments.
Mon. Jul 16, 2007
Seven
Seven. No, I’m not the seventh son born on the seventh day (I’m actually the first born on the twentieth, which has no rhythym, so it must be “authentic” white boy blues).
And no, I don’t mean the Seven Deadly Sins.
Or maybe I do. Maybe it’s the unwritten eighth sin (unwritten, because it had to be “published”).
Sun. Jun 03, 2007
PhotoDude Labs Rebooted
In September of 2000, I began posting photos online in “Pixel Pile,” a photoblog. In May of 2003, I launched PhotoDude Labs, selling archival prints online. Today, I’m “retiring” Pixel Pile after nearly seven years and over 2000 images, and “rebooting” PhotoDude Labs as my repository for newly posted images, which will be available as prints from Day One.
They’ll be appearing at the top of each page, just as they did with Pixel Pile, and when you click to view the enlargement, you’ll also have the option to buy an archival print. Overall pricing in the print store has been reduced about 25%, and each month four images will be available at even lower sale prices. Here’s four for June.
That’s probably all you really need to know. But, as always, there is more geekish detail.
Sun. Jun 03, 2007
The Evolving Whim
While lots of people “reboot” on May 1, June 3 seems to be the magic day for me, as it was at this time last year that I told you about “I Call It ‘Sketchy’” (see also, “PhotoDude.com through the years”). That was a full fledged redesign, whereas today you’re looking at more of an “evolution,” done to accommodate the rebooting of PhotoDude Labs.
Mon. Jan 15, 2007
Do Not Adjust Your Browser
Please do not adjust your browser. The cobbler’s barefoot child is finally getting some new shoes. As this site is upgraded to the latest super-duper version of Textpattern from an embarrassingly old version, I expect a few things to break. I expect to scratch my head a bit as I work out how best to fix it. In the meantime, this place may look wonky. This too shall pass.
Mon. Dec 18, 2006
2000 Piles
In September of 2000, I got my first digital camera, and started a “photo weblog” that I named Pixel Pile. Pixel Pile #1 was a “self portrait” of that first digital camera, a 3 megapixel Nikon 990. I had no idea what I was starting. I was just … starting.
Sun. Jul 16, 2006
Six
Your average six year old can be a pretty smug individual, with a fast growing skillset that makes them impatient to take on the world, and a growing certainty that they’re ready for it. But the reality is … they’re still just six years old. There’s no telling what might happen next, or what they may grow into.
That’s me. As of right about now.
Thu. Jul 06, 2006
I'm A Bad Blogfather
I’ve recently noticed a few folks reassessing where they are at with regards to their web site (I’m such a trend setter). People who’ve been doing this roughly as long as I have, and whether they realize it or not, people who created a site so affecting that it motivated others to try and create one for themselves.
On the web, there really is no greater or more sincere compliment than that.
And it moved me to take a look at an old site I haven’t seen in ages. A site that once listed blogs that claimed my site inspired them to start blogging, i.e., they claimed me as their blogfather. My blogchildren.
There were once nine of them. Only one has posted in the past month, and most are completely dead. I guess that makes me a Bad Blogfather. Consider this my memorial to them.
Mon. Jun 12, 2006
Not A Blog Anymore
If “blog” is a relatively new term for you, or if you have no knowledge of (or interest in) the “inside baseball” of the Blogosphere (i.e., probably over 90% of visitors to this site), rest assured that nothing is really going to change around here. At least, not any more than it already has this year. This is just me venting. At length. Again.
But for those of you who know your Technorati from your Elbowroni, this site is not a blog anymore. At least not in any current sense of what blogs are, or most especially, what blogs commonly aspire to be. I’m reverting to what this site was prior to July of 2000 when I first started using a piece of web-ware called Blogger … a personal web site.
Well, it will still be a series of individual articles. Posted in reverse chronological order. With comments. But semantics aside…
I hereby secede from the blogosphere as it is known today.
Sat. Jun 03, 2006
I Call It 'Sketchy'
You’re looking at yet another attempt to answer an eternal set of questions that have no one solution. After a decade of having a web site, six years of doing this “blogging” thang, plus uncountable redesigns, what new jumble of content can we attempt to make legible? In what way can we combine or re-order the articles, links, and quotes that we haven’t already? What mixture of columns and page width should be chosen? Please oh please can we just try something different? But, should a web page really have a deckled edge? Or a coffee stain?
Most people won’t care about these questions. Your eyes have already told you everything you need to know, including whether or not you like the new look. You’re done here.
Web geeks will want to hear further justifications and rationalizations. I got ‘em.
Sat. Jan 21, 2006
Comments and Chickenhawks
Back in November, I changed the way I do things around here. The quotes and links that used to be over in the right sidebar got mixed in with the main column content. They didn’t allow comments when they were in the sidebar, and they don’t allow comments now. Only their position and appearance changed, not the actual content.
Wed. Jan 18, 2006
Today's Lesson for the Ever Growing Geek
When an application you have installed on your server asks to be pointed to a “temporary” directory, [1] if there’s a default already filled in, one that’s been working for 21 months, leave it the %$#@! alone, and [2] if you foolishly decided to point it to a directory of your own choosing, make sure that directory is not also used by other applications, because one may try to run the other’s temporary files, creating a code poison that will make your site keel over like a drunken monkey.
Thu. Jan 05, 2006
A Belated Look Back at 2005
In previous years, I’ve assembled a “best of 200X” collection of articles from the preceding 12 months. And, um, usually did it much closer to the actual end of the year. But this has been a year of change in quite a few ways, so no need to stop now. In fact, it may be the changes themselves that need to be noted.
Thu. Dec 22, 2005
Spammers Kill Kittens and Hate Christmas
I’ve had to turn on comment moderation here, due to an escalation in the Spam Wars. So if you leave a comment here, you’ll get a message that it’s being held for moderation. But I assure you that as long as it isn’t spam, it will be approved.
Hopefully it will be a temporary measure. Textpattern users have been quite fortunate because [1] the software is pretty spam-hardened out-of-the-box, and [2] it has not been targeted for comment spam in the way Movable Type and Wordpress have.
Thu. Dec 15, 2005
The Year in 12 Sentences
“So this meme is going around, where you’re supposed to pull a line out of one of your entries for each month of the year.” Sort of “my year in 12 copy-and-paste sentences.” OK, let’s play!
Fri. Dec 09, 2005
Qualifying Quotes
Once again, I’ve succeeded in generating confusion. Life is good.
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