Design vs. Develop

There’s this series of ads on the Internet (you’ve seen them, trust me
you have) where you’re presented with a choice of every state in the
US. However, when you bother to click on an individual state, you are
forwarded to a form where you must pick the state again. Those folks at
lowermybills dot com (will not publish an actual link as I don’t need
to improve their Googlerank) must really be running the operation on
quite a shoestring if they can’t afford someone to program this
correctly. On the other hand, they seem to have an unlimited
advertising budget…

Evidently, Google is now working on a personal portal which will eventually include support for RSS feeds. (Thanks again to Mambofrog).

Having become thoroughly addicted to RSS feeds (see the right-hand
column), I’m wondering when Google will get around to helping people
keep track of their favorite feeds. They already own Blogger, which
offers their own Atom format for feeds. Are they trying to wait for the
standards to shake out before offering something? I’d really like to
see a web application along the lines of Gmail for this.

Looking for a color scheme? Search for over 6,000 of them at colr.org. They use "tagging", a growing trend of simple categorization where people just label things. (Thanks to mambofrog for the link.)

This keeps all of your notes in a single HTML file on your computer: http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

For those of you who really want to know, this is all done through a lot of CSS and Javascript. Simply fantastic!

An interesting New York Times article I’ve read recently (via City Comforts).

On my way to Maryland, I stopped in Frankfort, Kentucky to visit my
good friend Clay. Coincidently, this was also the weekend of the Kentucky
Derby.

As a part of the traditions of this state holiday, free breakfast is
served (compliments the Governor) to anyone and everyone who shows up
in Frankfort. Later in the afternoon, everyone huddles around their TV
sets to watch two minutes of horseracing action, along with two hours
of commentary.

I’ve come to realize that 1) no matter where you live, people are going
to ask you why you are there and 2) when you leave for another place,
people are always going to ask why you’re moving. Then there’s either
an implied or actual conversation about the place in question. A
combination of several of these adjectives will be used: expensive,
busy, dull, crazy, stagnant, declining.

At the end of the day, you have to pick a place to live, so it may as
well be somewhere you think you’ll enjoy. You can always move again…

This weekend has finally come to a close. Between watching
commencement, celebrating, hosting friends, and planning a move,
I am almost entirely exhausted.

Leaving town just as many of my friends are graduating makes it feel as
though I spent a strange sort of fifth year in college. This year, I
have learned a lot about myself, where I want to live, and the kind of
work I want to be doing. I wouldn’t say that spending a year in Tulsa
has been a waste of time. I’ve found that if you spend time regretting
something, you’ll then be sorry you spent that time and a vicious cycle
ensues.