Taking Responsibility — Confessions Of A Web Designer

Today I was asked to put blinking text into a website. Today I had to make a choice. Live with the consequences of knowing that I've contributed to making the internet a worse place or refuse.

I refused. But this isn't just a story about just that. It's also the story of a boy waking up to his path.

A Matter Of Subjective Importance

Let's get the important to me — but useless information to you — out of the way first; Coheed and Cambria's conclusion, The Afterman: Descension,  to the double albums Ascension / Descension has finally been released. It came out last Tuesday and it's super-fucking awesome! If I was wearing a hat I would lift it, pure awesomeness boys and one of the few albums where every song is pure win!

There. Now I'm done with that. I'm going to keep listening to their album on repeat for quite some time, because why frankly… it's that awesome. Check out my "This Is My Jam" profile and listen to Gravity's Union to hear what I mean. Oh [deity] that sounds horribly self-promotional. What could I do to counteract it. Nah, you know what, don't check out my current jam if you don't feel like it. Do listen to the song though. It's awesome. Here's a Youtube link if you don't believe me.

Now I'm actually done "promoting" this. Join me after the jump and read more about, well… other stuff too. Like coffee roasting and web design.

The Incoherent List Of Things

Be warned. This is more a list to myself than anything else. I need to summarize my thoughts somewhere in a simple to-do list type schematic so I won't have to keep everything in mind all the time. Should you for some reason still feel like reading it, be my guest. I warned you. This is probably as incoherent train-of-thought writing as it's ever going to get.

Make No Wonder

And here's the single reason why I won't be posting anything today. It's called Make No Wonder and is a procedurally-generated wilderness landscape in HTML5 Canvas and stuff. And quite frankly I didn't think it would capture me so. But it did. Curse you Matthew Hollett! He's also created Onopo which is a thing of beauty.

Now go! Play Make No Wonder and tell me what you thought.

A Revisit To Nostalgia Avenue

Reading about beije's never-ending gaming session got me thinking about how gaming has contributed to shape who I am. Well not just me obviously but then again, this isn't a blog about other people so…

Join me as I go back to the early 90's and look at where and how it all started.

He Did It All For The Beans

Yeah, this one is about coffee. Again. But to be fair, it has been awhile since I last wrote about coffee and thanks to the power of "the jump" you can actually choose not to read it. How cool is that? It's pretty cool, that's how. But you're going to want to read it, aren't you?

Back To The Regular Broadcasting Schedule

Welcome to the new year. It's just like the last one, except you're quite likely hungover whilst I'm not. Now that I've completed my challenge of besting the number of posts for 2011 — by one but that still counts — I thought I would reward myself by doing something some people have been doing for years and I'm… well… just behind the curve in that regard. Time to play the catch-up game.