Pre-birthday and Tivo

by kartooner on September 27, 2004

With my birth­day around the cor­ner I’ve been scout­ing out poten­tial gift ideas for those who are more inclined to pur­chase a gift for me than a sim­ple money exchange. Some peo­ple feel that it’s imper­sonal to slip a few dol­lars into an (…)

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Flickr

by kartooner on September 22, 2004

Ever since sign­ing up with Flickr a few days ago I’ve been hav­ing a ball with this com­mu­nity dri­ven photo shar­ing web appli­ca­tion. Even though it’s still in the oblig­a­tory beta stage, it’s jammed packed with sev­eral stream­lined fea­tures. The appeal lies (…)

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High School Counselors

by kartooner on September 19, 2004

“You’ll never grad­u­ate from a four year col­lege.” Those words, albeit harsh and abrupt, were given to me by my high school coun­selor, her response to my deci­sion to drop my Alge­bra 2 class in favor of tak­ing Ceram­ics 101. I remem­ber the (…)

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Version One: Fingerpaint

by kartooner on September 15, 2004

I’ve noticed a recent trend among web devel­op­ers releas­ing their first gen­er­a­tion web designs for his­tor­i­cal and resource pur­poses. In my opin­ion this shows that every­one has an evo­lu­tional process when it comes to design, be it web-related or not. For (…)

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