August 2006
Random Thoughts for August
August 28, 2006, 10:50 PM | 2 Comments
Some thoughts that ran through my head this month:
- If anyone has a spare 90 million dollars, I want one of these. I figure the extra 10 million will be enough to pay for fuel and travel expenses for a while ;)
- NFL opening day is in 10 days. I’m pretty excited about the upcoming season… hopefully the Packers can be a lot more competitive this year. Look for my week 1 prognostications to fly early during the week of September 7th.
- Speaking of the NFL… ESPN’s super slow motion is awesome for Monday Night Football (or any sport really). If the pre-season is any indication, NBC and ESPN are going to do an excellent job with Sunday and Monday Night Football this year.
- Tiger Woods is the best golfer ever. I’m sick of hearing people say that he “could be” the best golfer in the history of the sport. Even if Tiger decided today that he’d had enough of the PGA you could still make a case about him being the best. Jack Nicklaus played in a different era on shorter courses. Yes, the technology these days is way better than it was in the Golden Bear’s day, but golfers are also stronger and more athletic than ever before… well, some of them anyways. A couple of stats to back up my claim: Tiger is 3 years ahead of where Jack Nicklaus was when Nicklaus won his 50th PGA tour event. Nicklaus won his 18 majors by a combined 44 shots… Tiger has won his first 12 majors by a combined 56 shots. (Source: ESPN). Now, I never had the privilege to see Nicklaus play but there is currently no one who comes close to competing with Tiger - now, either everyone else on the tour is really bad, or Tiger’s just that good. To me, there’s no argument, I am convinced that we are watching the greatest player in the history of the sport of golf.
In some site related news, Portfolio updates are coming in the near future and probably will be launched sometime in the next couple of weeks. I’ve spent a while re-thinking my portfolio and how I wanted to go about updating it. I think I’ve come up with a pretty good solution, so I’ll be rolling it out soon. Stay tuned.
I Want a MacBook Pro
August 16, 2006, 5:42 PM | 8 Comments
Even before Apple announced the switch to Intel processors a year ago, I knew I would be seriously considering the purchase of a new Mac for my next computer. Well, the time has come and I’m at the point where I’m ready to buy, but I find myself hesitating. The problem I’m having now is that there are some rumours going around about Apple updating their laptops to the new Intel Core 2 Duo processors in the near future.
Seven years ago I was…
August 14, 2006, 12:45 PM | 0 Comments
I saw this over on Cameron Moll’s site and thought I would post it here as well. I left a comment on his entry but thought of more things after the fact, so here’s my extended list:
Seven years ago I was…
- 15.
- Preparing to start 11th grade.
- Working my first job in a bakery at a grocery store (Zehrs if you’re wondering. The particular store has since been turned into a ValuMart, which is still owned by the same parent company of Zehrs).
- Making websites as a hobby and wondering how I could turn it into a career (which I did the following summer).
- Fighting with tables, font tags and spacer gifs.
- Questioning the hype surrounding “Y2K.”
- Single.
- Becoming more obsessed with Football (NFL) and less obsessed with every other sport.
- Dreaming about the freedom that would come along with my driver’s license.
Site Redesign: Design Phase
August 6, 2006, 11:55 AM | 0 Comments
In my limited design experience, I’ve come to realize that the hardest part of any re-design (or any new project for that matter) is deciding on the look and feel of the site. Truer words could not be said about the road I took to come up with the new design for this site. It took me three completely different design iterations to finally come up with something that I wanted to stick with and develop. The process was long and drawn out, lasting two and a half months and getting squeezed into whatever free time I could find while preparing to move into our new house.
Version 2 Launched
August 1, 2006, 12:00 AM | 0 Comments
Well, it’s finally here! Reinspire version 2.0 has officially been launched. If you’re viewing this content in your RSS reader, be sure to check out the new site, a lot has changed.
In the near future I’ll be posting a few entries on the redesign process as well as obstacles and challenges I came up against along the way.
At time of launch there are still a few things I’m working on. Some of those include cleaning up the CSS and adding some more minor tweaks for IE. Most of the issues with IE have been worked out already, but there may be some left overs still waiting to be found.