The new machine has been purchased. Since I’m a bit anal about starting fresh with each new computer, it’ll take me a couple of days to have it up and functional.
If you’re curious, the “starting fresh” bit is more than simple habit, it actually accomplishes two very useful things for me:
- It makes sure I don’t bring anything dirty (corrupted data, bad files, etc.) or unnecessary into the new system.
- It gives me a chance to exercise the new system, and get used to anything quirky about it.
Yes, it moos.
I know, I’m supposed to do this in the dark, then spring it on everyone as a brand new birth, but that just didn’t seem right.
I mean we all are in need of the occasional redesign, aren’t we? And we can’t hide ourselves away until our metamorphosis is complete, can we?
All of us go through our days, slowing making changes to this or that part of ourselves, growing, changing, living. Why should my blog be any different? Isn’t it more honest to keep the process open, expose the flaws and fix them, while you watch?
Starting out with a minor bit of coding and a liberal application of Photoshop to a Great Master, I’ve plopped the mess in front of you, to watch it slouch its way into existence. Together we’ll explore the good, bad and ugly of this. What works and what doesn’t?
The software is updated.
Step 2 will be a new template while I sit back and watch what happens.
Rands is usually good for something interesting, but this time he’s really on to something. In today’s world design is a part of development, and development is a part of design. You can’t effectively do one without knowing something about the other. If you’re a one-person shop, you have to do both at the same time.
Some pull quotes:
“Designers have two choices. Either dip their feet into the programming pool and learn this frontier technology, or figure out how to speak developer.”
“…they must be passionate about something other than writing fast, bug-free code because software is art.”
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Some naive folks from Utah invited me to join their concom recently. They were bidding on the World Horror Convention.
We got the bid! Have patience. It’s a new site and we just got the bid for 2008, so there’s a lot of decisions that are just now being made. I’d tip you off to them here, but Robert Bloch promises me he’ll stop haunting me if I do, so you’ll just have to be patient. Just expect to come and have fun.
Wow. Me on a concom. Now that’s horror.