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Rain That Flew in Sideways

May 24th, 2004 with 6 comments.

Thunderstorm

In the past few days we’ve been experiencing torrential downpour here in the East. When I woke up this morning and looked out the window I thought I had woken up to that part in the Wizard of Oz when the tornado wrecks havoc on Dorothy’s farm.

I also kept thinking of a line in Forrest Gump, when Tom Hanks as Forrest is trudging through the Vietnam landscape, and mentions in one his letters that there was;

Little bitty stingin’ rain… and big ol’ fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath.

Honest Opinion of Wordpress

May 22nd, 2004 with 2 comments.

The following is a reply I sent to Brian Campbell, who contacted me in regards to my opinion of Wordpress and other CMS/blogging engines. My intention was to answer as honestly and open-ended as possible, and more importantly explain in-depth my fascination of Wordpress.

The Art and Meaning of Logo Design

May 21st, 2004 with 11 comments.

Logo design is a precious commodity for your business. Without a distinctive and appealing logo your business could garner the impression of amatuerism, and result in a loss of what would have otherwise been a successful transaction.

Companies such as UPS, Microsoft, C|Net, Adobe and OfficeMax understand this notion in logo design and as a result have instantly recognizable logos. Their intention is clear; to attach an identity and earn the respect of their consumers which retains and solidifies (in most cases) repeat service.

Cleaning the Toxic Dump

May 20th, 2004 with 0 comments.

Since the move, I have alot of residual markup that needs a good scrubbing. Cleansing the 300-plus articles has become quite a chore in itself, mostly because when I started this site I hadn’t a grasp of valid, semantic markup which means a good percentage of sloppy code.

I was more concerned with writing the article than the markup and put the toxic waste cleanup on the backburner, which brings me to today, of which I deem Judgement Day. Considering this project is long overdue I have decided to comb through my entries — if you may — and cleanse them of erroneous, non-semantic markup.

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