Month: November 2001

I have to say this semester have been really tough for me, cuz i overloaded (taken an extra unit) + i do some part-time web-design work. That meant i have more assignments, more projects but less time. I totally don’t encourage 3rd year students to try that. I’m just glad this part of my life is over.

Great, now i am starting to switch back to the normal heartbeat, my burning passion for life is flaming strong. God has been great in this semester, although i had an extra unit, but all the due dates are seperated so well that i just worked back-to-back on assignments. Although i did not like the trip, but still it was great… i think i am starting to sound like daren. haha…

okay i believe all of us have seen pictures using the CRLI (Consecutive Run Length Insertion) compression, but might not have known it was called that. Zeldman in his book Taking Your Talent to the Web mentions the following…

In 1995, when 14.4 modems prevailed, some clever web designers began masking every other horizontal line in an image to maximize LZW compression and minimize bandwidth. This technique of masking images with evenly spaced horizontal lines is know as CRLI compression (www.inforhiway.com/faster/crli.html).

What started out as a bandwidth-oriented tool had become a stylish design fetish by the late 1990s, as newcomers to the field fell in love with the CRLI “look” without understanding its utilitarian purpose as a tool of bandwidth compression. To designers, stripes were “webby”, and “webby” was cool. As the Web exploded into public consciousness, consumers and ad agencies seemed to agree with this link between “Web” and “cool”. The ever-popular striped effect was soon seen not only all over the Web, but also in print and television.

~ excerpt from Jeffrey Zeldman‘s Taking Your Talent to the Web

I strongly recommend this book.

This is quite a moving song.

Cold Enough To Snow
by Jennifer Warnes

Where did summer go?
How’d I miss the change of season?
All at once the wind blows rough
It’s cold enough to snow

In the street below
People laugh, they got no reason
Don’t they know it’s cold enough to snow

When we were together
And you were staying
Funny but the weather still felt like May in did-December
Now the chill winds blow, sunny skies they’re only teasing
You won’t show, it’s cold enough to snow

On the radio, there’s a man says
‘it ain’t freezing’
What’s he know? He didn’t watch you go

Now the sun can’t shine
If it wants to, fine
But it’s cold enough to snow

riverview rise conference

Went to church today and took a quick pix for you ppl to have a feel of what RiverView is like.

For the past few days my sleep patterns are so screwed. Yes i do have 8 hours of sleep everyday, but its 4 hours at night and 4 hours in the afternoon. I so need to switch back.

I just got one more major assignment left which is due next monday, can’t wait for the liberation.