Since high school, I always hated writing. Yet, oddly, it always came naturally to me. I communicate much better in text than I do in words. Writing this blog has turned my from hating writing, to loving it. Even when I know very few people read this, I get a certain satisfaction out of putting my thoughts down on “paper” in a place I know I will be able to look back on, and forever be able to evaluate my progress as a “writer”.

Would you agree, or disagree?  When I say this, I am not implying that people who do not have blogs never read, or stumble across a blog.  This is obviously not the case, since half of the links on Digg, sites like Lifehacker and Gizmodo, among other things, are blogs.  What I am suggesting is [...]

The design of this site, although it may not appear as such, has probably over 200 combined hours of time wrapped up in it. It started as a mock up drawn in photoshop by my close friend Jin, and the rest was left to me. The goal was simple. I wanted to create something fairly minimal, while still having room for lots of extraneous content, and I wanted it to be very unlike anything other blog I had seen.

As I have been working on my new design, I have realized something:  Doing web development sucks.  Flat out, sucks.  I have deep compassion for those of you who actually decided to do this for a living.  As much of a perfectionist as I am, I could not do this job on a daily basis. [...]

I recently decided to redesign this blog. (At the time of this posting, you can obviously see that it is not finished yet as the design of this site has not changed.)  I am a self-proclaimed PHP expert, I know CSS and HTML pretty well, and I dabble in Photoshop.  One thing I lack though, [...]