Well, that sucked.

Need freelance? Know someone that does? Even better, know someone with a fulltime position in NYC (or NJ, or PHL)?

Isn't that the cutest thing ever.

I'm not going to say that I love only pointing out how dumb people are, but let's face it, the standards nuts might have flipped. Having failed to convince the working world to arbitrarily drop useful tools for reasons they can't even agree on (semantics? open source? accessibility?), they now think wearing colored hats is a good idea?

Landmarks.

Before you go further, at least glance through: 1. Landmark Web Sites, Where Art Thou? 2. Something’s Missing in Web Design

Planning Futility.

Finally got my freelance work cleared off my plate after a killer week at work. Now the fun begins.

I'm going to start on my first book cover soon. I'm throwing out most of my restrictions though. I still won't be creating finished masterpieces, but I'm not going to force myself into a 2 hour limit. I'm still holding myself to a shorter time frame, but I want to be realistic in how long it takes to do one.

My current list includes: * Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson) * Stardust (Neil Gaiman) * Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein) * Pattern Recognition (or Pattern Recognition or Idoru, not sure) (William Gibson) * Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)

I did finally get to read the last Harry Potter book - but I don't plan on attempting a cover. It was a good book and I honestly love the cover illustrations. To redo them would insult them.

Otherwise, I'm also going to redo my current site as Flash 9 / Actionscript 3. No, I don't plan on redesigning it. I'm happy with it now (finally), but I need a project to learn AS3, and redoing my current site would remove alot of the guesswork and frustration that can come with a design project.

Last, I'm going to update the blog design. I had originally picked up MT as an experiment to see what I could do with it for a work-related project. Seeing that I've more or less kept this blog up to date, I figure I should get around to updating the design.