July 30, 2004

wow,

That was tough.

Two days ago I decided to add my blog to Yulblog in order to get some publicity for a post I had written about setting up a learning network. Little did I know, that;

#1 I am more desperately in need of some web-learnin' than I had thought.

#2 One should never try to do touch-ups their site with a presentation due in 48 hours because one ends up wasting all ones time fixing ones diary and no time writing a very important presentation that is due in less than 72 hours.

July 29, 2004

Stands for: Fear Of Design.

I am having a moment , where I really wish I had learned more about design/coding and less about "interventions " and "the end of the meta-narrative" while I was at university.

No. Wait. Actually what I am realizing is that the craft of web design (and now web development) evolves faster than I do, and what am I going to do about that?

I learned web design very much like the other designers I know, informally and mostly sitting at home or at school or at work with a tutorial in one window and your project in the other.

July 27, 2004

this thing is so small, actually what is small is the screen and then its recommended resolution is 1400 x 1500 which is an f__ed up bias to start with, but is also just so tiny.

I know all I ever do is focus on the negative.

I have an itsy bitsy teeny weeny home xp running centrino wireless enabled laptop.

of course it arrived on a day when I had planned on staying in bed for no less than the whole day.

so now i am blogging abed. how nice.

next thing is to systematically deconstruct this baby and try to understand it's inner workings. and how to type lying down.

it looks like it's been put in the dryer.

July 26, 2004

A couple of things have happened today some good some bad.

The bad thing was that I gota kick in the pants about a site I made earlier in the year, when I wasn't quite as up to speed on coding as I am now. Too bad for me the sites been in my portfolio for months and it had several very obvious mark up errors. I feel both ashamed and irritiable as a result of this.

I guess the lesson is to always check out your old projects whether or not you are still actively working on them.

The good news is that I walking down by the tracks today, and I caught sight of a VIA rail passenger train going by with one splash-painted car on which was written " wireless onboard"

what a great idea! I wonder how it is being implemented. I am so curious and now I really want to go train-hopping in a totally different sense of the word, I wonder if I could sit down by the tracks and "hop" their wireless connection ??

I would have to ask someone else I am totally new to this whole thing but an art project about trains and wireless connectivity could be really cool.

Some starting off points are the obvious links between technology and bringing people together.

A less obvious links is the history of canadas railsystem being one in which visible minorities (notably people of asian heritage) were exploited in it's construction. Then the typical users of trains during the time of the railroads development were obviously people of a higher class than the guys laying the ties.

The same is true of wirelss technologies; the people using wireless laptops (and I include myself in this group) have more privelage then the people physically constructing the chipsets.

I mean there are so many other interesting ideas... Wireless technology is going to radically change the way we conduct our everyday lives, this was true of train travel across canada as well - once it became ubiquitous.

Anyways I should go try and fix the stupid mistakes I made and then get to work on my linux presentation.