Pictures taken with a Canon SD750 on 1600 iso, no editing done (although it could use some noise ninja). These could very well be the last photos I have taken of my car before it’s sold.
Thanks to Jordan, I have a new theme! I think that the minimalist feel works best on blogs so that the focus is on the content or any images in the post.
Visit Sour Customs for any web design work. He does more than proxy themes too, just contact him.
So far I have only noticed one problem. On a post page, the logo image does not appear so you can’t get back to the home page.
Edit: I just remembered that tags aren’t displayed anywhere. Tags are vital for SEO on a blog.
Edit 2: Michael suggested that I add 1.5em line-height. Done.
Jason Fried mentions, in the Duct Tape Marketing podcast, exactly what I was talking about in a recent post seen here.
He says that there was no good way to do this before; examples being that people would stick post-it notes to their monitor or even using a piece of paper or notebook.
I suppose Highrise allows you to show other coworkers or clients your ideas, previous contacts, things to do, etc, but then what is Tadalist for? I think it would be great if they would centralize every application they make…
Although it pains me to say this, I believe that Barack Hussein Obama looks the most presidential out of all the candidates (yes, democrats and republicans). His voice is presidential and it can be said that he’s the JFK for the 21st century, but the big problem here is that his ideas are not presidential (since they differ from mine, obviously).
The way he delivers like a preacher, (in short bursts), is rather annoying. If you listen closely to his filler statements, even they resemble what preachers say. I don’t know if this was planned (since Iowa is such a religious state), but if it was, it was a clever move.
I need a new blog theme. This one is too standard. Something extremely simply that puts heavy focus on content would be great. I wish upon a star, that I’ll one day be a great designer.
I’ve recently been using a TOPS legal pad. It’s one of those classic yellow pads that normally people use the first 1-2 pages of and never touch again. It looks like this.
Our office has a stack of these in supply and I’ve taken to using them as a way to jot down my thoughts and list things to do with brief details. If you are a busy person like me, several thoughts are running through your head at any given time and I feel that this is a great way to not lose anything that might have been useful or important. Not everything I write down is work related. Sometimes I will just list something that I need to do when I get home (such as putting on my windshield wipers since it is going to rain these next few days).
Forget online lists such as 37 signals’ Ta-da lists. It is applications like this that are the epitome of web 2.0 uselessness. Keep it simple stupid. Pen and paper is all you need. You can glance over at it anytime. No need to open up a new website, log in to your account, and type some shit in that you will never check later. By then you’d have been fired.
I’ve never been much of a partier but this holiday season was pretty daft. I didn’t really get into the “spirit” this year.
Anyways, I just figured I’d throw another useless, waste-of-time-to-read post out there because soon we will be updating our blog over at Central Desktop to wordpress. Rather than just overwrite the old installation of simplephpblog and lose all posts, links, and pagerank, I proposed installing it in a new directory (/blog).
The bosses liked it, and suggested that everyone who works here write a blog post at least once a week just about our jobs, the industry, and other interesting mojo that relates to running a successful software company. One thing that CD as a company has not done too well is build that huge web 2.0 reputation that 37 signals has done. This is one reason why BaseCamp seems so much more popular than us. The fact that 37 signals developed RoR can only help this. They also had a 22 month head start on us and focus more on the VSB’s, for example, a small team of 2-5 working on one web project. CD targets the SMB’s, maybe a team of 5-50, or more. As a platform, CD is very robust and flexible. It’s a lot more difficult to “outgrow” CD than BaseCamp. Anyone who has bothered to try out both softwares will know what I’m on about.
I will admit, when I went in for my interview, I thought CD was basically BaseCamp, just not as popular. You could say that working here has inflicted some sort of bias on me, but the truth is that no product really can be directly compared with us. It’s sort of like this. You could compare a Honda S2000 and a Mazda RX-8 directly - many have done so and it’s accepted that the RX-8 is simply a four door, four seat alternative to the S2000. You could also compare the RX-8 to a BMW 3 Series sedan, but you cannot compare the S2000 to the BMW 3 Series. I’m not entirely certain the importance of this post, but it’s some nonsense to get me back into blogging mode.
