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- July 18, 2011
New Blog Sections Underway
July 18, 2011Read moreI spent quite a bit of time this weekend burrowing out a larger website, adapting my old SeahTwentyTen and CleanrAgenceum WordPress themes to work with the new structure. I moved all my main website development into source control too, using Subversion. I also soft-launched Nonazon.com to use the “Cheap Websites” template (thus successfully eating my own dogfood). It has been a very busy and productive weekend, although I didn’t get to see the sun very much. Tradeoffs, tradeoffs.
All this extra web infrastructure is designed to make it easier for me to write a lot more, on the theory that the more I write and share, the more motivated I get. I have avoided following-through with this for years because I didn’t want to clutter-up the main blog with voluminous daily chatter, and it wasn’t clear to me how best to do it until last week.
The next step is moving old content into the new sub-blogs, which will help concentrate the topical material into a more concentrated, browseable form. There is no automatic way to do this, so it will take a bit of time to develop that process. In the meantime there are two sub-blogs available: the old Agenceum Design Agency blog, and the brand-new “Stream of Consciousness” journal where I am keeping much of my raw thinking as it happens. I’m not sure if it will be of interest to anyone except me, but you are welcome to peek.
Now that the system is in place, I am hoping is that the main blog will become more of a relaxed, general-audience fun space. We shall see! It’s all a work in progress :)
- July 17, 2011
John Mayer on Disintegrating Focus
July 17, 2011Read moreFound via Evelyn Rodriguez on Google Plus: this recap of a music seminar with John Mayer. Of particular interest to me was the idea that when you are focused on something small things like crafting that ultimate Tweet, you don’t practice the harder things you really want to be doing, like writing that great 4-minute song:
“The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You’re coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still 4 minutes long…I realized about a year ago that I couldn’t have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic. I had four million twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn’t write a song.”
Something to think about
- July 15, 2011
Scientific Reasoning and the Language of Teaching
July 15, 2011Read moreThis article in Ars Technica, College Upperclassmen Still Fail at Scientific Reasoning, suggests that professors inadvertently speak a different language than their student. Another data point toward text books that fail to explain, because they’re trapped in their own world.
- July 14, 2011
Deploying a Dot NET Application
July 14, 2011Read moreA few years ago I was writing code for a museum exhibit using 3D technology in Microsoft XNA and .NET. We installed the computer with the software already on it, so I never learned how to package code for distribution over the Internet. I decided to take a look at this in more detail. (more…)
- July 14, 2011
Asymmetric Columns of Content
July 14, 2011Read moreI have recently discovered Pinterest, which implements a pinboard of cute pictures tied to one’s interest. It’s sort of a visual bookmarking system, and the people who are into it generally are trying to pick beautiful pictures. I also like the layout of the screen:
I looked around to find out what jQuery plugin might implement this kind of layout, and I think it’s Masonry. Noting it here for future reference.
