Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

Seriously, dude.

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

I know, I know. I never update this site. It’s sad really.

I’ve got a new project in the works. It’ll basically be a blog/resource site. I’m going to offer links to free tutorials, free graphics, free themes, free fonts, free advice. Maybe have some guest bloggers. Mostly it’ll center around web design and/or freelancing. I know there are plenty of other sites like that out there, but I’m hoping to give it a little something different. I definitely want to focus on free. And maybe have a bit of a ladies’ point-of-view. Most of the sites like that that I’ve seen have been written or run by men. Or if they’re for ladies – they’re for moms. There are plenty of us professional ladies out there who aren’t necessarily moms, or that isn’t a big focus on our professional side. I’m not saying there won’t be anything for moms, but that won’t be a big focus.

Still in the works, of course.

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Stating the obvious.

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

desktop, laptop, iPhoneYes, yes, I snuck a new design in. About a week ago? Maybe two. Ha, I don’t even remember now. I like it, overall, but I feel like it’s lacking something. I didn’t want to use that little octopus, but it felt like something needs to go in that spot. And I don’t know what yet. So for now, I will consider it a placeholder until I get my “eureka!” moment of realizing what I should put there. I don’t consider it quite done until that happens though…

I ordered my very first laptop about a month ago, and it just arrived! It is named Agent Blue. I wanted to name it Agent something, and I ordered a laptop with a blue case, just to have something different. So my pal Rob named it Agent Blue when he was networking it to my desktop machine. A Dell XPS M1530. I am sure I spent way too much on it. But I will get much use out of it. I thought when the laptop arrived, I might be less enchanted with the iPhone I got a few weeks ago, but I am finding room in my heart to love both new pieces of technology in my life. We shall live harmoniously. It’s like I have machines for small (iPhone), medium (laptop), and large (desktop) techy stuff I need to do!

Hi, I am officially a geek.


I know you’re wondering if you got lost.

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

But alas, this IS in fact silencia.net. After TWO YEARS, it is finally redesigned. Overhauled. Simplified.

I tried a few times in the past, and abandoned the designs because they were not up to par, or I simply couldn’t get something VITAL to work properly.

I have noticed over the last couple years that all my “inside pages” were basically stuffed with useless filler to take up space and make a menu even worth having. So now there is NO MENU (stop looking for it). The only inside pages are for the portfolio. And I don’t imagine too many people are going to go looking at that.

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Sometimes things work out nicely.

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

iPod nanoSo a few weeks ago, my beloved iPod died. I thought it was all over, the angels had sung. But it miraculously resurrected itself from the dead a day or two later when I checked on it. Then last Thursday it died again. So I plugged it in for a couple days thinking it might resurrect itself again. Nay. It had kicked the bucket. So it was time to go to Best Buy to see if the replacement plan I purchased for my iPod would come to good use.

What I had was a silver 4GB iPod nano that was $199.99 when I bought it. I guess it was the “2nd generation”. The tall skinny one. And apparently the iPod nano that goes for that price now is one of those new little 8GB iPods that also have video capability. So I exchanged my old one for a new black shiny 8GB iPod nano. Yay for me!

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I thought I was a nerd…

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

That crazy computer of the future from the '50s or something.I have been making websites since 2001/2002 or so. I was in the Web Developer program at a community college for a couple years, though I didn’t finish. I’ve worked as a web designer for a web company for the last three years. I work on websites just about every day of my life, even if I’m not at work. I would say I am fairly in-the-know with web design and development.

I do not know what “Web 2.0″ is.

I even read the Wikipedia entry for it, and I still don’t know what it is. When reading the “Technology Overview” of Web 2.0, it doesn’t even sound like it’s a new thing… to me. Am I wrong?

Web 2.0 websites typically include some of the following features/techniques:

* rich Internet application techniques, often Ajax-based
* semantically valid XHTML and HTML markup
* microformats extending pages with additional semantics
* folksonomies (in the form of tags or tagclouds, for example)
* Cascading Style Sheets to aid in the separation of presentation and content
* REST and/or XML- and/or JSON-based APIs
* syndication, aggregation and notification of data in RSS or Atom feeds
* mashups, merging content from different sources, client- and server-side
* weblog-publishing tools
* wiki or forum software, etc., to support user-generated content

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