Caught In The Whirlwind
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Random Happenings
Sep 18th 2009
I’ve got a few things to report about since my last update.
First of all, I think I’ve finally settled on a basic color scheme/design for my mom’s quilting/craft website. I’m still tweaking it at the moment and I’m trying to decide if it looks too…web 2.0-y for the craft content. But I finally found something I liked well enough to take it out of the initial planning stages. Going to see if I can get some more work in on it during my lunch here.
It’s a good thing that’s getting finalized too since one of the first projects in the Digital Typography course that I’m taking is to do a business card/letterhead/envelope for something, so I figure I can work her up some stationary while I’m at it. The course is coming along quite well. We’ve finally started working on the computer and with InDesign which I’m finding pretty cool. I’m learning some stuff and generally enjoying myself which is a pretty good sign. I’m not regretting the decision to go back to school.
On a totally different note, I got a little bored yesterday and continued my blog transfer. I’ve got everything that I’ve posted on Vox from when I signed up through November 2006. Once I get out of 2006 the months will speed up as I settled into more relaxed posting style.
Lastly, on a product review front: The new Muse album has REALLY grown on me since I posted my initial review. The weaker songs clicked and it’s become one of my favorite albums of the year. Which only serves to diminish the Porcupine Tree album more…Oh well. I’ve also been enjoying Scribblenauts. But I’ll save that for a separate post when I get a minute to do a proper review.
Thinking Of Moving (My Blog)
Aug 11th 2009
I’ve gotten a little tired with the lack of updates that have been made to Vox over the past several years. It’s like Six Apart has totally forgotten about us over here.
And that made me think that there’s just about 3 years of my life archived on this website and there’s no way for me to get at it if the worst happens and Vox goes down. And I’d hate to lose a lot of these postings. So I’ve decided I’m going to start transitioning over to hosting my blog on my own website.
Back when I first started with Vox I tried wordpress hosted on my own site and didn’t like it quite as much. It wasn’t as smooth, didn’t have as good support for multimedia stuff and I had to really deck it out with plugins in order to get it working how I wanted it to. But I tried it a couple days ago again and it’s definitely come quite a long way.
Right now I’m posting in both places at the same time while I go post by post and transfer 3 years worth of posts over to my own wordpress. It’s currently located at http://www.nopurpose.org/blog/, but that’s not the final design at all and there’s a bunch of fine tuning I need to do to make it work right. I’m still going to post both places for the time being…going to take me a while to transfer everything over. I’m 1/10th of the way done now.
Even if I don’t make the transition entirely, I’ll at least have a backup of what has become my online journal. I definitely don’t want to lose some of these notes and experiences.
QotD: What I Love About Vox
Oct 25th 2006
In honor of Vox’s launch tomorrow, what’s your favorite feature or aspect of Vox?
I’m kinda scared about the launch actually… So far it’s been a very nice community of people hanging around, but as soon as you open the doors and let anyone in… We’ll have to see what happens.
Anyway, I really like how easy it is to use. I’m a tech-y guy generally and being a web developer, I’ve got no problems getting down and dirty with the code, but if I had to write my blog like that, I probably wouldn’t even use it. I’d be fighting with the template and plugins most of the time instead of actually just using the thing.
I also like the question of the day idea, since it’s really helpful for thinking up topics to write about.
Vox rocks 
Ooh, Shiny New Vox Stuff
Aug 31st 2006
I think I found another theme I enjoy…one of the new ones that came in release 11.
It looks like they’re really making a lot of refinements to the whole process here. I really can’t say I’m too fond of the little ad banners that show up on your front page if you’re not logged in, but really, it beats messing with your own blog software and getting everything set on your own with tags and stuff.
I found when I was running my own wordpress install, I seemed to spend more time tinkering with the site and trying to get things like tagging and an image gallery working right then I did actually writing stuff. Good thing I got my Vox invite when I did…
A Very Long Day…
Aug 14th 2006
Well, I’m pretty bored at the moment. I’m currently really the only one here in my department at work. Everyone else has the day off. I’m also currently in one of my slow periods where I don’t really have a specific project to work on. So I’ve just been doing a lot of reading up on stuff (like continuing my quest to learn ruby), as well as tinkering my other site (Hey, it’s PHP work…it’s called practice!).
I’ve been trying out this vox thing…It’s a really nice service, very easy to use, lots of AJAX-y dynamic stuff. The integrated image/video/audio gallery system is very, very nice. I’m not to keen on the google ads at the bottom, or having my personal thoughts and posts walled away in a proprietary service. I’m still debating if I’m going to move over here, simply because of how easy it is to work with, and for the social network aspect of it. It seemed kinda pokey too, which is another negative. It’s got a bunch of positives though. Argh! I can’t decide.
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