Web Developer, Graphic Designer & Musician Located in Crosby, Texas
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If you haven’t heard by now, you’ve been living under a rock! Apple has released a beta version of Safari 4 and it’s crazy fast! In fact it has been benchmarked by third parties as faster then Firefox and Internet Explorer 7. That is no lie! Pages load super fast and so does the browser upon initial launch.
Work, eat, sleep as a daily routine can become an extremely boring and repetitive schedule. We all need our share of hobbies or activities to break up the monotony. I usually do that with all the Netflix DVDs I have coming to me each day. I have become a big fan of sci-fi movies and series. Enter into that picture getting hired by a company that is a ASP.Net focused design firm and some room as to be made to learn what I do not know so that I can continue to learn, expand… stay an employee at the company in the future.
I have been contracting through a company in Houston, Texas since September 2008. At some point I was told that I would be extended an offer to join the company as a full-time employee. This dragged on for several months. Knowing how the economy is and the amount of layoffs occurring I was starting to assume that their offer was dead in the water, for the time being.
I haven’t been posting much to my blog lately as you can see. Life get’s in the way much of the time but I haven’t had much of a desire to write. I have been working a lot at a company called Hexagroup located in the Montrose section of Houston, Texas. I’ve also been traveling a lot to Waller, Texas to perform design, CSS and web work for a client of theirs who will soon be launching a new web site / services that has to do with the open source software world.
From time to time I change my web site and from time to time I switch from static to a CMS of sorts. Well, this time I am going with WordPress again, yet I am not going to be designing my own site. You see, I am extremely busy at work and what I do for a living full-time is web design. So naturally when I am home the last thing I want to be actually doing is what I have been doing all day.
It happens at every event that Apple puts on. It doesn’t matter if it’s the World Wide Developer conference, Mac World or a special event that is announced through an invitation a week in advanced. It’s inevitable; it frustrates me and at the same time makes me laugh. Have we come to expect too much from Apple? I think so. Read the rest of this entry
I am in the process of moving to Crosby, Texas. It’s a small town near Houston. Population of about 1,700 people as of the 2000 Census. We bought a brand new house, never lived in. It’s a really quiet place. The plan is to work in Houston which is about a 40 minute drive. I should be back online with access to email on or around June 5th.
It is well known that there is a deep bias against Macintosh computers in the Windows users world. I know about this bias because I too was one of those who made fun of Macintosh computers and the users of them for over 15 years. If you must ask why I did this, I can honestly only tell you it wasn’t from any personal experience with them. I was merely just repeating what others told me about them and they were probably doing the same as me.
I’ve never been to SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas and I was hoping to go this year but two other designers from work were chosen instead of me this year. There’s no hard feelings, both of them are friends of mine, but I would have loved to go. There is just so much stuff that goes on over the span of the conference that I would benefit from knowledge wise and of-course it’s a lot of fun as well. I think one the great things is meeting new people and other designers. Social networking is on the rise and the more people you know in the world the better off you are in your career because you have more people you can learn from and there is a lot of exchanging of ideas at this conference.
A month ago or so I joined up with one of those new Web 2.0 Social Networking sites called Twitter (www.twitter.com) and I said to myself what a silly idea! The first thing is who really cares about what I am doing now (posting to my blog if you must ask, sheesh!). Second thing is what a pain it would be to have to visit the web site each time to post what you’re doing all the time!
