Because I Am A Digital Boy
I’m excited about the prospect of living in an entirely digital world. Being slightly obsessed with new technology and gadgets, I can’t wait until all of my entertainment options — the non-physical ones — are available from a single digital hub. Pushing a button to summon a song through the stereo, a movie on the television or a game on the console of my choosing fills me with glee. This is the kind of thing that makes people shut themselves inside their homes, away from the world at large.
Job Title 3.0 Release
I’ve been working as a web designer for a little over five years now. I love the ins and outs of mixing graphic design and coding with the fun of the intarwebs. The downside has been, up until now, that the company I work for has been using a content management system, while helpful in some ways, has a lot of faults. A couple of the biggest faults in my opinion is that it requires a specified type of design (thus limiting artistic creativity) and it doesn’t teach us anything new in terms of web design (thus limiting our learning).
However, that is all about to change. The company decided to invest gobs of money into revamping the website product, and it will enable us to not only spend more quality time improving our designs, but it will allow us to learn new coding languages. My favorite aspect of this is Wordpress. We’re going to start creating and developing Wordpress sites, and I couldn’t be more excited. I’ve spent some time dabbling in it, but now not only will I get to use it in my day-to-day job, but they’re going to teach me how to use it, for free!
Switching from a CMS to a Wordpress and Dreamweaver HTML environment is going to take time to get used to, but because of it, I feel a renewed interest in my job, and that’s definitely a bonus.
Another Year, Another Blog
Since writing about personal things wouldn’t fit very well with my artistic endeavors over at killerrobotcomics.com, I figured that I would start another blog where I could talk more about the general things that are happening in my life.
You’re not going to gain amazing insights by reading what I have to say — although, unexpected insights are more than welcome to happen if they want — but if you’re interested with what I do with my free time, how I interact with my friends and family, things I’m excited about, and listening in on the frustrations that I come across, then feel free to bookmark away.
In the past, I’ve attempted to maintain a personal blog, but every time it ended up being more of a diary. Something along the lines of a “today I had a sandwich” kind of writing. This time, even though I do want to add in some of the personal diary moments, I want to try to concentrate more on discussing subjects, whether they be personal or not, rather than just relating what is going on. It would also be nice to not create the forum for complaining that my blogs generally deteriorate into.
Overall, I’m simply trying to do something enjoyable, where I can try to be creative, funny and opinionated, and hopefully I can learn something about myself. Kind of like the blog title indicates, I wanted to make my own podcast without have to record it.
Enjoy.