Version four randomness.
First of all, let me welcome you to version four of the site. It’s merely an improved version three of some sorts, since all that’s changed is the new placements, the new main page (it kicks ass), the design in general –
And the new logo. It’s in pseudo-3D, and it looks cool, at least for me. And did you know that it took me several iterations of sketches until I got into the sort of final thing? On your right is the full paper of logo sketching I’ve had a couple days before starting the design. Well, you can see that the idea I’ve had is already there, I just needed the perfect one. Also, you can see that I suck at drawing stuff, let alone sketching stuff with straight lines, so excessive laughing isn’t necessary at this time (although you can smirk if you want to). Heck, I even went as far as doing actual 3D stuff, which turned out to suck more. No miraculous stuff or actual matrix calculus going on there, just pure randomness. And while speaking of randomness…
I learned this once in high school; that the freedom that you think it is, is not the “real” freedom. Freedom is not free will. It’s not about doing what you want to do. Freedom means you are doing what you ought to do — your deeds, your responsibilities, things like that. People often complain that they don’t have freedom, but the kind of freedom they’re looking for is erroneous. So guys, don’t do things that erroneous. At least for me, I can really say that I don’t have freedom, the deeds that I ought to do, simply because life doesn’t permit to. It permits me to do the complete opposite.
Most people (especially myself) don’t appreciate the stuff life has given all of us, and what other people has given to lighten our loads. Well, for example, a lot of people I know mostly ignore all the efforts that I’ve made through the years, which makes me think, “To hell with this; nothing’s happening.” And sometimes, they are ones being angry while I am the one who deserves to be angry at them (although I don’t provoke my anger anymore, especially recently, when it’s useless being angry).
So what do you think? Is your life leading to an erroneous dead end? Are you being under-appreciated by your peers? Does the new Derivatrix logo kick ass?
Edit: As for the Portfolio, I’m lazy. Period.
Dot, dot, dot.
Oh-kay. While I’m still sorting out the comments part (especially the comment form — I mean, come on, are you really sure you can put long sentences in that thing, without getting outside the big ol’ box?), I’m going to put a placeholder here first — this blog entry, so you’d know that I’m still here, and that the design isn’t finished as a whole yet.
Kinda off the topic here, but why do some people put ellipses as their status messages. No text, just the pure three dots. I find them quite irritating to say the least. If I were to figure out what the ellipsis would mean in a status message, I’d say that it’s kinda like the “Buffering” or “Loading” things you get in videos. But look, humans are capable of thinking with a snap of a finger; it doesn’t take three freaking dots to think about what your status is. If it does for you, then you sir, are too damn slow. I’m already mentally slow, and that only means you are even slower, which is about insane.
Next time, use a dash instead, or ever better, don’t use the status message as your loading indicator.
Some preparations.
So today, I’m preparing for stuff for the upcoming week (or weeks, depending on the impact). First of all, preparation is made because I’m about to be bombarded with school work again, so I have to put all of them in a calendar. I’ve tried them once — last term, first week, to be exact. It [not surprisingly] worked, but decided not to do it yet. Well, now’s the time to do it, I guess. Second, I don’t have a lot going on for this site, so I might as well revamp the whole thing again. Not much of a deal, though, since it will still run off of WordPress, and I got other [more important] priorities.
Priorities that are, sad to say, as vague as shadows on pure darkness. (See? That’s even ambiguous in itself.) I hope it’ll be clear by next week though, so don’t worry.
I’ll see you guys on October. I think it’s time for that “Wake Me Up When September Ends” song again. *Plays Caramelldansen instead.* xP
[Google] Chrome shines for me.
Ever since last week, I’ve seen this sentence looming around the Internet. At first, I thought it was a pun for an old April Fool’s joke that I’ve never heard of. (I’m obviously a fan of Google’s April 1st webpages — remember Google Gulp?) After reading some articles, I learned that Google Chrome is actually a real web browser, and it’s initially available as a beta software for Windows. As an OS X Leopard user, I kinda held back because there’s no Mac version, until I saw a couple more good reviews. And so I restarted my computer and booted to Windows, just to try it out.
For a beta software such as this, it works well, honestly. Wait, so that’s why they say it “shines for them!”
It’s been my default browser for Windows, and it’s like a new experience all over again. Most visited webpages (just like Opera’s, except more practical for me), Gears integrated (great for doing WordPress posts and pages while your Internet connection craps out on you), Incognito windows, and more things that you would likely see in other browsers are in here.
It’s fast too. I’m not going all scientific here, but it definitely feels faster than the Firefox I have in OS X. Even if Chrome has its tabs as separate processes, and that would probably mean more required memory, it’s still smooth as silk. Maybe it’s because of their new Javascript engine — yes, I’m a sucker for Web 2.0 apps.
Okay, so if you are open to other perspectives of web browser religion, or if you’re just curious, then give it a try.
Oh, some fun facts:
- For some reason, it always crashes when I opt to shutdown while Chrome is open. No biggie, though; you can just ignore it.
- There are fun “about” pages in Chrome. Try about:internets and admire the view.
- There was a controversy concerning the EULA of Chrome. A part of that agreement says that they will own everything that you create using that browser — blog posts, forum replies, documents, everything. Fortunately, they’ve fixed that part hours after the discovery.
Hundreds, but not thousands.
What you are looking at right now is not a mosaic of a blue-green-colored watermelon, nor is it a large pit of death of words. This is simply a word cloud, kinda similar to the tag/category cloud you see at the very bottom of this page, and its purpose is to highlight the words that are frequently used in a selection. The selection is - you’ve guessed it - everything in this site. I’m feeling narcissistic already. (Not the disease, but I really wouldn’t mind if I had one.)
This graphic is made on Wordle. (I’ve attributed you and your service now, so don’t cry - or run to your lawyers - about it anymore, okay? So we’re good?) It’s quite easy to manipulate the colors, text, things like that, so thank them for having the blue-green text of awesome right in front of your faces. Oh, and have you noticed the most frequently used word I’m using? Yeah. Now I can prove to others that I can sound like an L.A. dude, without being an L.A. dude! Like, it’s not obvious that I’m doing this for, like, a lot of times already. So interesting.
Going off topic here - but I’m doing this in the middle of a final examinations week. Who in the right mind, or with the [rare] common sense, would do such nonsense? That’s right - me. I’m born to do things with perfect timing. Or lack thereof.
And I’m taking back my first statement. It does look like a blue-green-colored watermelon.