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Poor excuse of a blogger, currently trying to get back to business plans after spending most of his time and energy in the past years on nonprofit assignments.

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February 2nd, 2010

And suddenly... !

Websites & Projects | at 12:50 AM

And suddenly I changed the layout of my long lost blog. I went back to the roots, to one of the default designs and started to trim the needless parts and alter the others. The result is that for the first time since I joined Tabulas, I am actually happy with the way my blog looks! I haven't finished though, there are still several things to change, including the background; I want to get as far as I can from the original design so that I feel it really belongs to me. Hopefully this unexpected revival will motivate me to start writing! Because frankly I can't remember having posted anything here but totally pointless and stupid entries.

 

To be honest, this wasn't all accidental. I had planned for a long time to make use of this blog, and it was very likely to happen this year since I'm taking time away from the consuming involvement in my website 1UP (about retrogaming) to return to web design and try some new things, which I will maybe discuss here. But I had no idea it would turn out so well so fast, and today of all day! (got up at 7 with totally different plans, got nothing productive until late afternoon)


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May 23rd, 2007

Changing Everything... Again

Websites & Projects | at 11:06 AM

It's been almost a year since I wrote something here, oops. I'll destroy this blog and rebuild something new - and hopefully build it right this time. I just need first to sort things out and also wait to get my new computer back, which current status is: "lost".

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March 22nd, 2006

Nonsense & Sensibility

Websites & Projects, Waste | at 10:42 PM

I came here to erase some spam comments (why the hell would I like to buy diamond earrings ?) and modify my link list, so why not write an entry too, it's been a while. I haven't posted lately because I've been too busy and tired, which is good news because this blog is pointless, a real waste of time, both for you and me, mostly for me, there's no you, I guess no one is reading this. Good, I'd feel sorry to waste your time.

Anyway... (no wonder no one is reading when I manage to be so efficiently boring, if the art of being boring was remunerated, I'd be the Bill Gates of boredom, Boredom Vista, to be released in 2007... oh no, I'm doing it again ! Perhaps it is because I'm tired that I digress so easily to write utter nonsense).

Anyway ! (but actually there's a point to all this, it helps me to relax (a bit); nonsense has a relaxing effect (I almost wrote laxative, go figure) and there's nowhere else where I could write nonsense, because I need to be (relatively) serious in other places where I write because I interact with people. Plus, here I can put as many brackets as I want (((or almost))) and it seems I like brackets. The last reason is that it helps me to practise writing in English though I should practise that in Samurai Nintendo instead, the long list of reviews I have to write hasn't changed since last summer).

Anyway !!! (it seems much easier to write nonsense when one is tired, very relaxing indeed but I guess I should stop now because I had something else a bit more relevant to say I think... what was it ?)

ANYWAY !!!! I've been busy coding mostly. And interestingly, once again, my preference has shifted to another project. After writing the last entry about things I should change in that new site, I lost both motivation and confidence in that project. The problem is that I've bought the domain name so I should still hurry to release the site.

Instead I had a sudden and real need to work on the Chat site. I had several ideas on how to improve it and I felt I too had improved since the original version, both in terms of programmation and organization, and what I had learnt could well benefit the site. Now my code is clearer and better organized I think. Presentation is really crucial for your code otherwise you have no idea what you're doing, especially when you stop working on it for some time (as little as one day is enough for me to feel completely lost when I check again lines of code I wrote).

I kept the core of the chat mechanism and design but rewrote all the rest and now I'm adding features. The change log is going to be pretty long when the site is finished. I'm already beta testing some functions, somewhere, but there's still some time to go before it's ready. Perhaps 50-60% is completed, then I'm going to revamp completely the splash and information pages. It's practically going to look like a brand new site when it's finished. I will also buy the domain name and all this (currently known as Chat 2.0) should be ready, hopefully, in April.

I also have a couple of projects going on for 1UP, one should be revealed soon. So basically my time currently is shared between Chat 2.0, the new project and 1UP. I haven't done anything new for Luomu.org, I almost stopped checking the site, it just doesn't receive any attention at all, and it's going to be much harder than I expected to make it attractive. As for Samurai Nintendo, the main focus lately has been the server problems, while keeping a dreamy eye on the excellent stats. I should definitely work on this site too, some big Nintendo Revolution announcements are around the corner and I have nothing ready yet, just the good old GC site.

That's what you get when you have too many sites, never enough time for every one of them and you have to decide which one needs your time the most. Hopefully I'm not making the wrong choices.

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March 14th, 2006

Money, money

Websites & Projects | at 05:17 PM

I'm going to be cryptic again since I don't want to tell what my next site is about, not just yet. It's not of importance, because it's not in English anyway, this time it'll be only in French and, hopefully, Finnish, respectively for people living in those specific countries.

This morning I realized I had to make one major change in it, and that it would require some rethinking and redesign. I need to modify the baseline because of some "legal" facts I had not seriously taken into account. I don't want my site to sound for what it's not (a gambling site) so I have to remove some elements, mostly replace gambling-related words, to be sure I'm not misundertood.

That's the first time I need to do something like this and that's both interesting and frustrating. Interesting because it helps to define my site better, at least I know exactly what I'm doing with it now, frustrating because I have to choose my wording carefully and I feel I'm censoring myself by fear of the law. I think I have quite a honorable purpose with this site (besides the fact I'm trying to make money...) but this would probably be a worthless argument for the tax service wanting to take the little money I could make from it.

At least Internet encourages small businesses and entrepreneurship and permits what would be impossible in the actual world. Too bad it's busy with sites using the same unscrupulous methods found out there.

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March 6th, 2006

The Thought

Websites & Projects, Waste | at 01:01 AM

I had a thought yesterday, about one of my websites. For some reason, I cannot explain this thought, it's about what I want to do with it. Something that I might regret later, but something also that might be very, very useful if it happens. Oh, I talk like some secret message...

Again I'm exhausted, I had a long workday as expected, and it feels. It's 1 am now, so let's be reasonnable. Bed, here I come.

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