terror of terrors…

Posted by Joshua S. Hill

April 16, 2007

Why oh why is it that my girlfriend is on the phone to my mother…

Yeah, sure… because she works in Bosnia, there is no chance otherwise for my mother to see how well I’ve lucked out, and for Rachel to have any contact with my mother apart from this… but still, it sends shivers down my spine.

Not even a run around the bloc (three times) managed to dissuade my fears. Ah well… In God we trust… huh?

On the brighter side, it looks like I may have a potential time waster. I’ve been offered the chance to redesign a website that has, in all honesty, needed a lift-me-up for awhile. With the Web 2.0 boom, the flash site design and layout has fallen by the wayside, to be replaced by the ever popular blog.

From 13 year old’s who feel their parents hate them and feel they need to have a tag - Emo (while the rest of us over the age of 20 are yelling at them because it’s called being a teenager) - to companies, the blog has been transformed in to more than just the inane dribbling of the nerd with nothing better than to whine about his lack of a girlfriend (has he even looked in the mirror?) to a way to keep people reguarly informed about people and groups.

So, my goal will be to drag this certain organisation kicking and screaming in to 2007 with a blog that will accomplish all the goals of the early 2000 model website, with the penache of a decent website.

In a seperate interestingness, Wordpress have removed a blog that has apparently violated the Terms of Service. In and of itself this is not an unusual occurence, considering that the human race are, on the whole and by nature, pornographic. However this site most recently contained the ability to open Firefox within Firefox (yeah, you heard me… listen to episode 451 of Buzz Out Loud ([tag]BOL[/tag])to hear Tom Meritt wax eloquent about it). I won’t post the line of code that will begin this function, but if you check out this website, you’ll find what you’re looking for. The point of this is to say that I find it strange that in some way WordPress felt that their ToS were being violated. It is neither harming or benefitting Mozilla (makers of Mozilla), and does not represent any spam or malicious intent. Hmmm…

Once again, on a totally serperate note, I’ve just been reading (yeah, these posts normally take me an hour to read as I go surf the web in between paragraphs) about the Burning Man. Without trying to explain it myself, I’ll relay below what the ‘About’ page says.

Here you will find links that will take you on a trip through the past - through the history of Burning Man - from its early days on a small beach in San Francisco through its evolution into the bustling city of some 25,000+ people that the Burning Man event has become today. These people make the journey to the Black Rock Desert for one week out of the year to be part of an experimental community, which challenges its members to express themselves and rely on themselves to a degree that is not normally encountered in one’s day-to-day life. The result of this experiment is Black Rock City, home to the Burning Man event.

All I have to say is that, I really want to go!!! I’m going to leave you with a video of one of the art pieces that I found on TV Free Burning Man, called the The Big Round Cubatron (check out it’s own website here). In addition (yeah, I’m seriously addicted to this thing now…) check out the photos on [tag]Flickr[/tag]… they are simply sensational!

Check it out, it’s seriously worth the 6 minutes.