Once upon a time, I took an entry-level economics course at Georgia Tech. It was part of the required curriculum for engineers, so it’s not like I took the class because I had this burning desire to learn about supply, demand, and why I don’t have any money.
Anyway, even though I had a full semester’s worth of micro-economic details thrown my direction, I absorbed very little theoretical knowledge about economics and economic systems. This remained mostly true up until this summer when the election and the sub-prime mortgage crisis collided, resulting in a glut of informative articles and pieces on economics all over the Web.
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If you’ve ever been in the business of content production, then you know that you can get on a bit of a roll after a while. Sometimes those rolls can last for a few days, and other times, they only last for a couple of hours.
For me, they’ve been elusive lately, but I have to figure that’s because I haven’t specifically focused on them. I wrote about Zen-like creative workflows over on Pearsonified, and I truly believe that you can trigger a higher level of productivity by performing simple mental exercises that force your brain into activities that you would otherwise suppress. [click to continue…]
Whenever you release a theme, you really need to take the time to fine-tune even the finest detail. Here are just a few: [click to continue…]
Right now I’ve got this great new monitor, the 30" Apple Cinema HD, and although it just begs to be used for design and coding purposes, all I’ve been able to do is code up some non-paying client sites.
Non-paying? Client? What?
It’s not entirely non-paying. It just doesn’t pay immediately, so that also makes it a little more difficult to finish, for some reason. Done well enough, though, it could prove to be worth tens of thousands of dollars—literally.
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I distinctly remember telling my girlfriend that March would suck. This was all the way back in 2006, so bear in mind that things may have been different back then…
Suffice it to say, though, that March did end up sucking, and there I stood on the 31st, right once again.
When you live in this part of the country, crappy weather during the “green” month is nothing if not par for the course. However, the one thing that skews my outlook is the fact that when I was a kid, I always viewed March as sort of a gateway to spring, which is an elegant way of saying that I thought the weather wouldn’t suck so badly most of the time.
Every year, this turns out to be wrong. If you live in the Midwest, March sucks. [click to continue…]
Sometimes writing in this manner is really strange. Take the title of this post, for instance. I didn’t give it any thought beforehand, but at the same time, I had to tell myself that this was the title I was going to accept because it was the first thing that came to mind. Strangely, I couldn’t shake the thought of it, either.
And thus, a title was born.
Does it have any meaning? At this point in the text, I suppose not. At least my mind hasn’t really connected any virtual dots with it yet.
Perhaps it will in the next 5 or so paragraphs… Wouldn’t that be killer?
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