Jun 11, 2010
I haven’t had much to blog about and I’ve recently started becoming addicted to Tumblr. Tumblr suits me more as I’ve learned because I don’t have much to say but there are other things on the internet that are interesting to me that I’d love to share with others.
Jun 06, 2010
Sometimes I’m overcomed with severe apathy. Self diagnosed severe apathy, that is.
I don’t see why some things are just so “important” to people. Like the news. Who cares if the President went to Chicago or if there was a bank robbery in some town? Perhaps local news, sure. Who cares what happened in the Civil War. Sure we should learn about it but is there any sort of necessity to having a Civil War debate? Who cares about politics. Why bother arguing about it at the dinner table when that dinner table argument would change nothing? Who cares about what a cargo ship looks like or “internet” stuff as the boyfriend likes to call it.
Sometimes, when I see someone putting passion into something, it makes me resentful. Perhaps it’s because I really don’t have the same kind of passion as they do. And perhaps it is the fact that I can become mildly interested in something and enjoy doing something but I don’t have “extensive” interests in talking about it every single Sunday dinner. Perhaps I’m apathetic but I just find a lot of things so pointless.
What is my malfunction? Is it that I’m not smart enough to see the value in things majority of people care about? Is it because I think one person can’t make a difference? Probably. How do I fix it? I don’t know.
May 27, 2010
For those that follow me via RSS, I have updated the feed to exclude the WordPress posts because I want to keep from turning my personal blog into a niche WordPress blog. Sharing knowledge is one thing but I don’t want that to be my ONLY focus and the ONLY thing I talk about here. I think for a while there, I didn’t talk about anything else. I really want to try and spread my writing out a bit more. If you’re interested in my WordPress tips, there’s a separate RSS feed that can be found in that section (added to the main navigation) or you can subscribe to that feed here.
Now about work, I don’t know how common it is to work with someone in charge and feel like they’re not knowledgeable enough to be the one taking lead on a project. You don’t want to straight up say “You don’t know your stuff” but at the same time, that’s exactly what you want to say. I’m really too nice to really want to intentionally insult anyone I work with. I always attempt to have a good working relationship with my coworkers and the higher ups.
What annoys me is when people that don’t know about something try and take charge. I feel oppressed because I want to take a product to the next level and do it right the first time. I want to eliminate the extra steps for a blog that this person is creating with hardcoding something instead of making it dynamic. In a way, I’m saying I hate being told I can’t do something when I really can. I’m really pretty much at the grunt level at work. All the stuff I’ve been doing lately, I volunteer to help out with because I enjoy it. However, as much as I enjoy it, it becomes much less enjoyable to go that extra mile to help a coworker out when I constantly feel like they need to be in control of every single aspect when they really don’t know anything.
May 26, 2010
My new WordPress theme is up. So if you’re reading by RSS, I do hope you come see my work in progress thus far.
I didn’t accomplish all I wanted to but I figure that since the general look and feel is there, I’d go ahead and go live with it. I’ll still be doing mostly back end work and maybe tweaking the fonts a little bit.
My portfolio section, while not the best looking, does now have it’s own dedicated spot. I need to update it with all my recent projects. I’ve really put off on putting projects on there.
I wanted to point a post written at CSS-tricks about server side programming language of choice. I am proud about the remarkable number of people that are using PHP. I personally love PHP since I first started dabbling in it. It’s easy to learn, it’s still being developed and I think eventually, it’ll be one of the languages most preferred by developers.
May 21, 2010
Working on a new blog theme. The free themes that I’ve been using have been great but I really need some more levels of customizations. Some of my goals for this is to incorporate/improve features of plug-ins I consistently use.
Here are some upfront ideas for my next blog layout:
I’ve needed to build out a custom theme for myself for a long time but since I’m a web producer/developer for the most part during my day job, I’ve felt burnt out. However, I also think that I should have a place to showcase my web development skills, along with having a theme that makes me enjoy writing. Because let me be honest, tradition blog flow is kind of boring.
May 20, 2010
Recently, someone was doing a survey about sexuality and relationships. Some of the questions were asking how many partners does it take for you to think a man/woman to be promiscuous. The information also included the general info like age, relationship status, and how many partners have you had. Name was omitted, at least.
However, going through some of the responses while entering in my own response was kind of an eye opener, to say the least.
Is it just me as a lady or is it just sort of a put off when you find out that someone have had sexual contact with 12 people? Or the higher number on the list, 24?
Most can say it really depends on age. But this age group was early to mid-20′s and it just surprises me on how… sexual people are these days.
May 19, 2010
I really know what it feels like needing to know something that you just haven’t learned yet. Trust me, I know. I’ve been in those shoes and it’s just a bad feeling admitting you don’t know. You’d rather fake it till you make it i.e. pretend to know/show confidence that you can make it happen while you figure out just how to do it. I’ve done that before at previous jobs. There is some pointers I would like to make about this philosophy though.
I’ve been doing a lot dealing with WordPress (hence the flow of my recent WordPress related entries). However, the guy actually in charge of blogs isn’t really in the know about WordPress (which is why I’m the one building the themes and everything). He doesn’ t know much about PHP or MySQL or CSS…
So someone asked him if he could put in the post thumbnails into the archive pages for the categories, authors, etc. Instead of asking me “hey, how do you do this?”, they told the person “I would love to but it’s really hard…”
It really makes the situation look bad if you say “That’s too hard to do” and when they ask someone else, they do it in 10 seconds. Really bad.
Fake it till you make it. However, while you’re faking, be sure you’re learning along the way and not trying to scrape by because you haven’t learned something. I’m generally considerate about what to speak up about and try to word things so that the not-knowledgeable person won’t feel like I’m stepping on toes.
But really, if there’s something that you don’t know how to do, you can really ask me. I’m not going to humiliate you in front of coworkers because you don’t know how to do something. I’ll show you. I’ll teach you. I’ll be nice. No, I don’t bite.
I say this to the person/people who don’t read my blog.
May 18, 2010
This past weekend, I spent some time with my cousins, aunts, and uncles which I rarely get to do. My cousin, Bryan, had a new baby girl. I thought I share a picture of her and I together because quite frankly, I don’t really talk much about family life.
Right before taking this picture, I was holding her and playing around with her. This random lady sitting at the same table was like “Wow, you are very good with babies.”
What does one say to something like that? Like would I really be handling a baby (let alone my cousin’s kid) if I knew I’d be terrible at holding a baby?
May 09, 2010
This weekend was full of getting my hands dirty and my apartment clean. It being Mother’s day weekend, boyfriend and I had plans to have his mom and step-dad over. I was really being conscious on the little things. No spots on the kitchen counter. No rat litter sticking out of the cage. No loose trash on the ground and the hallway clean. I just wanted it to be nice. I am happy to report that Mother’s day dinner was a huge success. :)
Aside from cleaning the apartment up, I also went through my Google Reader and cleaned out my RSS feeds. This is where I bring you to blogging and over-posting. I feel it’s rather more impersonal to use an RSS feed to keep up with blogs but it’s so convenient. However, I feel that most sites are running some sort of analytics so if there’s a post that really pulls me in, I’ll click on it so they can see “HEY SOMEONE IS LOOKING AT MY BLOG!” However, and this is a big however, if I can’t keep up with someone’s blog by reading my reader 4-5 times a week (averaging once a day), I lose interest in keeping up.
I think this is more reinforced if you’re posting 1000 word posts every time and doing it 3-4 times a day. To be fair, it’s not that I don’t care what you have to say. It just starts to become more “Augh, I just don’t have time to keep up with that posting rate.” I’m sure somewhere down the line, I’ll visit that blog again and resubscribe and all that. But Google reader is the “I want something to entertain me” sort of place and blogs do that. I enjoy hearing from strangers (basically) and sharing a piece of their life with the world. However, posting rate does matter to me I guess. And knowing what the hell they’re talking about also helps I suppose. :P
Anyways, just a few thoughts since I haven’t posted in a while. Any feedback is definitely welcomed. :)
