Gosh, I really need to work on my sleep cycle.  LOL.  I was going to do that last week, and I was doubly committed to doing that this week.  Alas.  Anyway, I did some serious interface managing today.  I had to sign up for a bunch more accounts (ps for the love of god make me find fewer pages that I absolutely must register for stop).  So I learned how to edit wikipedia pages today.  It is very easy and a lot of fun, if there’s something you know about you should try it it’s great.  I was planning on making a wikipedia page for temporary airbrush tattoos but I have a bit of conflict of interest.  Wikipedia it seems frowns on that sort of publishing.  So maybe I’ll try it later.  I just don’t feel ready right now, and I certainly don’t want to get banned from wikipedia, it’s one of my favorite sites, and I couldn’t bear the embarrassment.  I think I made the right choice not pushing it.  I don’t want to risk hurting the image of my company.

You may have noticed that this post is devoid of images.  I didn’t have La Pasion (watch Dexter coming on CBS) tonight for graphics design.  We’ll see how tomorrow goes.  I did cross two things off my to-do list today.  Maybe I can keep it up.

Oh I forgot

24 January 2008

I’m usually so charged up at the end of these long days that I have been liking to take some time to just chill before bed. So what that means to me is playing with graphic editing and writing code for the web. So take a look at this stuff, and drop me a line what you think. Now remember, I’m looking for criticism, because the more I get the more work there is still to be done.

PS. I’m sorry to say that I’m not exactly sure how this uploading stuff will go. I hope that it’s built right in so that you can comment on each file, but we will just see. “We will just… we will just have to see” [matronly, if any of you haven't heard Mindy do the character I'm referencing here, you simply must] “You just… you really should see her do this.”

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Another Late Night

24 January 2008

Another late night of working on the computer. I just can’t believe how much there is to learn. I am working, as some of you may know, to develop free web traffic to my new employer’s site tatstore.com. This is a pretty tall order, but I had no idea going into it. I will be happy to see the fruits of my labor coming to term, even just a little.

My days have been strange. For example today, I have been literally working at my computer since I woke up this morning at 10:30 which has been what… 16 hours not quite. I haven’t slept haven’t eaten, but I also somehow strangely feel like I haven’t gotten much done. Fortunately for me, I have a gigantic list of sites that I registered for today to remind me that I have in fact done something. But other than that, those hours are just lost. I just spend so much of my day learning that it is difficult to point to what I’ve done at the end of the day. Mercifully, as I am getting to know all of google’s organizational products, like their calendar, I am able to keep myself on track. Unfortunately, the breath of this “track” seems to grow every day. Throughout the day I build up my to-do list for the next day or so. And every evening, when I’m putting my final items in that list, I look and see that I hadn’t checked off a single thing from the previous day. I feel like I am chasing a ghost down a rabbit hole. When I set out, to learn about rss, I end up learning javascript. Once I learn a little about javascript, I find that I need to know more when I try to use bookmarklets (applets that function like bookmarks in your browser), and I still don’t know anything about rss, which reminds me I might need to know about xhtml (which is actually just smoke and mirrors anyways). At times though, the chase can be exhilarating (which explains why I have not gotten up from my computer in 16 hours).

Anyway, I am really excited for tomorrow. I have some actual implementation steps to do tomorrow, so at the very least I will have something to show for all of my efforts, in fact one and one half weeks of work.

Wish me luck, and I’ll be thinking of you all.

Thank you all,
Benn

hmm… still working

22 January 2008

I’m still trying to figure out how these work.

Hi, I’m just learning how to use wordpress. I’ll see what happens when I do this. I think I might start writing my blog again. idk. Peace out for now.

Hello world!

18 January 2008

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