Did a 468 x 60 banner for MAWA today, you can see it here. Its quite funny as it is based on a sticker from them.
roots
In the earlier parts of my youth I was shouting out to be different, to be unique, to disassociate myself from tradition and to create and live in a somewhat new and different lifestyle. I never knew where I was heading, but I knew where I was avoiding.
Still being on an unending journey of self-identity, I question myself on the things I do and the life that I am living. Is it all worth it? Am I doing anything now that I will come to regret when I face my grandchildren? Will I face myself in an eternal turmoil of self reprimand and become a grumpy old man?
“The life which is unexamined is not worth living.” ~ Plato taken from quotationspage.com
Self identity comes from respecting who you are, but who are you anyway? What is it in your blood that you can’t change and denounce? What do you represent? Who do you represent?
Currently I am holding quite a fair number of roles which I believe many are, spouse to my wife, son to my parents, grandson to my grandparents, brother to my siblings, cousin to my cousins, etc… student of my uni, part-time web designer to M Graber Consulting, webmaster to several websites, moderator to several forums, church goer of CNL and an ambassador for christ, etc…
I am also a descendent of the Pan genealogy and a proud citizen of my nation Singapore. I know who I am, I know where i come from and I know what I have to do. Do you?
(–_–) Zzzz
I had 14 hours of sleep last night and i am really feeling refreshed. Gotta do up some web-design work for the next couple of days and get ready for exams that will happen next Wednesday.
Its so exciting knowing that i will be going back to Singapore at the end of the month. I am so going to switch to holiday mode soon.
no more school work
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…
of LZW and CRLI
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.