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Archive for April, 2013

Checking in…

Thursday, April 18th, 2013 at 10:32 pm

Man, I haven’t blogged in a while and I know it. I was on vacation last week and I spent it getting sick. Who gets sick on their vacation? >_< sigh... Being sick took me out Mon afternoon to Wed but the rest of the week, I was still 1/2 outta it. But I tried to use my time as best I could, reading some books and studying. There are a few books I still want to read. I don't think I'm learning enough so I wanted to try doing more of that. I spent this week sleeping a lot/early. I still have a cough so I'm trying to take care of my body enough that I'm well rested. Don't want a lingering cough. Want to get rid of it ASAP. Been playing dota during the night but tonight, I'm gonna try to study more til sleep. Haven't worked on Secret Project KB at all this week, despite working on it last week quite a bit. Haven't done photography in a couple weeks. Need to start that up again... While I'm here, blogging, I think I'll write a bit about some other things...but we'll see how that goes >_<

Secret Project KB updates II

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 at 10:02 pm

Updated my secret project KB site a bit more.

I’ve been reading The Smashing Book which I got a few years ago. Unfortunately, as with all web publications, namely that of one published in 2008, the content is somewhat outdated – and yet still somewhat relevant. It’s funny, they talk about things like IE6 and jQuery (as relatively new)…but they also talk about relevant things: optimization, brand, usability, brand, type, color theory. I realize I’m pretty bad at all aspects design; especially color theory and type. I’m going to try to improve those aspects. I realize now that I’m too narrow-visioned with development. I need to become an expert, I need to be more aware of the field as whole. Design and usability specifically. Honestly speaking, I would rate my design as a 2, my usability skill is a 3, and my development as a 6.5. While improving my development, I need to bring my other scores up.

Anyways, that is all.

Sherlock

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 at 11:57 am

Just watched BBC’s Sherlock (it’s only 3 episodes per season, and 2 seasons!). Totally got my post-House fix from it. Except you know what? Sherlock is…smarter than House. I had my doubts, House is incredible. But…Sherlock’s smarter. Also, not as lazy.

I think Moriarty is one of the best villains I’d seen in a long time. Y’know what House never had? A villain, an equal that could beat him. It’s much more fun and satisfying watching a cunning hero beat an equally cunning villain (Death Note, Sherlock). You only get a real spectacle when watching two equals compete.

Anyways…just wanted to write about it. Can’t wait for Season 3 cuz I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END OF SEASON 2.

Also watched Silence of the Lambs and watching Red Dragon…really drawn towards intellectual characters. Hannibal’s pretty smart too. Not on a Sherlock level, maybe on a House level. But Hannibal can make you do stuff with his words. I think Sherlock could do that as well, but House likely couldn’t…..or could he? I don’t know….

Secret Project KB updates

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 at 10:24 am

Updated my secret project KB site a bit. Updates include:

  • Redesign of site
  • Clearfix CSS addition
  • Responsive Layout for multiple mobile browsers excluding iphone >_< my site won't seem to properly fit on it... :/ (ruh roh)

What do you think?

In the meantime, I’ve been working on my photography a bit. 19/43 done.

Watched a couple movies. Going to try to start studying stuff. Check out my achievements section for an up-to-date list of what I’m working on.