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All done with school for my junior year. It's possible that I could
graduate with only one more quarter of schooling, but I'm not counting
on it. All the same, it would be cool to dive into things!
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Goodness, I just finished the redesign of this site after about a week
straight of work. Designing a site can be elaborate! I spent months
crafting just the look I wanted, hitting upon it last week. I sat down
to tweak it and then separately designed the front page to fit in with
the same motif. Once I was settled on the design, I worked out a
backend infrastructure with <a href="http://www.php.net/">PHP3</a> to
automate publishing. Previously, I had to do a fair amount of legwork
to publish an article, and many parts of the site were non-homogenous,
leaving the site without a consistent look and feel. There had been no
navigation bars, either.
<p>
So I recoded over 70 pages for this site, including 40+ writings (5
new ones that I rediscovered), 15+ news entries, and some new parts
altogether (like the <a href="../projects.php3">Projects</a> section).
Whew! Well, I'm pretty much done now and can get back to real work.
The new design should let me put in new features easily, and quickly
change the look and feel of the site, should I need to. This place is
getting big!
<p>
Work on the book is progressing, I've completed the Introduction and
Chapter I. I intend to release the book in its entirety in HTML at
no cost on <a href="http://www.TheMP3Book.com/">the book's site</a>.
<p>
I'm going to be starting a company, an
<a href="http://www.idealabs.com/">IdeaLabs</a> of sorts for the online
music technology industry as a joint venture with
<a href="http://www.blinkmedia.net/">Blink Media</a>. The tentative working
name is "Mad Cow Corporation!" Already, we have a
great startup (a.k.a. <i>calf</i>) we're developing. Can't say what
it does, but damn, is it cool. More details later, but if you're
interested in giving a hand with some cutting edge online audio
technology, <a href="mailto:david@weekly.org">drop me a line</a>.
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Lately, I've largely been working alone in my house, which gets to
be a wee bit lonely. I have a hard time concentrating on things, and
I don't feel quite as happy when there aren't other people around.
I'm going to see what I can do to put some sprig into my social
life. Working at home is not all it is cracked up to be. (Although
the first week of this was pretty incredible!)
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