09:30 - Feeling.. strange.
11:17 - still feeling kooky
12:42 - eating white castle, and unwinding

coffee total: 0

09:45 - Running on overdrive. Metabobek. Nuff said.
12:53 - Feeling kinda lost like Physics 151
13:54 - I feel like a pressure cooker.

coffee total: 0

09:54 - Need to wake up still.
13:56 - Finally got my Sony V6 headphones eq'ed just right. It's beautiful.
16:15 - These cookies from costco are delish.

coffee total: 2 cups
restroom stops: 2

10:11: A little blah.
10:55: Holding my head. Disorder(ed web design) makes me uncomfortable.
12:15: Still blah-ish.
12:21: They took the carafe. What is going on here.
12:47: Eating raw beans.

coffee total: 1 cup in liquid, 1/8 cup in beans

11:13: I like Michael Jackson. Sore from pull-ups last night.
14:10: Can't get computer to succumb to me. Kill me now.
16:02: Weezer Christmas is wonderful
17:21: I want to eat food.
22:27: Comfort food for me seems to be a sausage & egg biscuit sandwich and french toast sticks from Jack In The Box. Right now is a time for comfort.

coffee total: 1.5 cups
restroom stops: 3

09:55: coffee
10:00: still easing into work
10:38: keep feeling like there are invisi-ants on me
11:13: livesite redesign - ugh, confused
13:06: hungry, but trying to hold out; anxious about cisco

coffee total: 1.5 cups
restroom stops: 3

09:10 : "I'm alive."
10:00 : "So we got this huge bag of decaf coffee beans in the kitchen at work. They're not gonna go anywhere."
11:36 : Feeling strange. There was this flurry of activity as coworkers crowded around my computer to find a solution - ultimately there was no solution. So now I'm left to... sit here.
20:33 : Eh.

Cups of coffee: 2

09:57 : like a silent programming bomb fell on my brain
11:04 : very angry at table cells
12:05 : hungry, mentally fried, lazy. Making coffee.
13:16 : happy that I got to practice my triads (guitar)
14:39 : wired, and both excited and scared at workload
15:58 : uninspired, and ready to go home
16:55 : delighted to go home
22:28 : tired, but also feel accomplished

Trips to work bathroom: 5
Cups of coffee: 1 + 1 iced mocha

Trips to work bathroom: 3
Lines chatted: 682

I've been busy with School of Worship:
Emails and word docs and excel sheets and reserving rooms at church and website work and flyers and coordinating times...

Had dinner with Daniel last Tuesday, which went well. We don't talk much in the house, and I felt that it was a good gesture in order to ease any tensions that might have built up over time. I hope to arrange a similar dinner outing when Mike comes back as well.

April and I had lunch with the Chen's on Sunday. The meal ended with all of us deciding that it would be good to set up a sort of dance party at church. I suppose that is something that I will be arranging...

My hard drive had a "near death" hiccup last night, with bleeping sounds and moments of freezing up. In great fear I looked up new hard drives online (I've lost some hard drives in the past, so I have some legitimate fears). Ultimately I tried my hard drive again this morning... and it seems to be working fine.

So I decided that I'm just going to leave it where it is on the floor of my bedroom, and not anger it any more than I already have.

Last night with April we stopped by a Hot Topic and they had "Thriller" for $10. So I bought it.

This morning I ordered "Bad", "Off The Wall", and "Best of The Jackson 5" off of amazon.

"That's definitely been a theme lately in my life, just realizing that the goal is not peace in itself, but really peace in Him... not avoiding trials, but finding peace during the trials... knowing that God has a greater plan in mind, and great things in store for each of us"

"You are good when I’m poor and needy
You are true when I’m parched and dry
You still reign in the deepest valley
You’re still God in the darkest night"

When life is good, I have someone to thank. When life is hard, I have someone to cry out to for comfort. Jesus is more than enough reason and meaning for life.

I am not perfect - none of us are. Jesus is not for perfect people. Jesus came for sinners and the broken. He knew we needed forgiveness and grace. He knew we needed a real hope we can trust in.

How do I know He is real? His promises are real. He has transformed and changed my life. He has changed lives of people around me. He has answered and continues to answer prayers.

Ever since I chose to follow Jesus, He has shown me so much proof that He is real that my only response has been to love Him back, and live a life that is dependent on Him.

Up late editing photos...

Over time I've discovered that... I take less and less time pre-processing, and exponentially more time in post-processing. It's become evident that my priorities are now subject and composition (if I don't see anything worth shooting, then I just don't shoot). The rest can be dealt with later as long as I get it in the ballpark.

A new camera body will be nice in the future. There are things I'd like to capture that I just can't because I've reached the limits of what the D50 can do. Soon enough...

My 17-55mm lens kinda pooped out on me tonight - the zoom ring is stuck, and super hard to adjust. I know I bumped the lens a couple of times on Thursday, and it was getting tossed around in my backpack all week. So I looked up my extended warranty paper work (it's covered until 2012), but after some research, it appears that the warranty company went out of business. (insert long, sad, silent pause).

Due to current life plans, a replacement/repair is not likely to happen until next year sometime. I wonder what God's trying to show me here.

Had a heavier (but good) talk with Chris. We just talked matters that need settling (that won't settle themselves).

So after all of this I walked to the kitchen and found ants all around the sink (oddly going for a left-over bottle of ant-killing bait). So I told the ants that I would've exterminated them, but I was just too drained and emo to deal with them at the moment.

In happier news Vic, Kelly, April and I went disco dancing in LA, and had Philippes for dinner =) I had a pickled pig's foot that was gnarly big, but way complicated to eat, and a tad too awkward to consume in front of guests.

Independent of all pig feet, we still had a great time.

Cloud computing, chromeless?, FOSS, GPLs... humans -> robots -> information, "The design of everyday things"

This conference has been thoroughly humbling.

Vision
Brand equity is user experience
Keywords
Emotional response
Typeface
Color
Test in context

Golden Ratio: divide by 1.62 into two sections
Rule of thirds: divide by 3 into three sections
Line height... keep it in multiples of 1 lead...
use Fibonacci for font sizes

YSlow in firebug

Long day, long phone talk. I feel somewhat defeated.

html5 cache manifest - specify in header which files you want to cache, so it can load before even hitting the server

Windows mobile and blackberry don't have webkit yet.

vibrate
navigator.notification.vibrate(0);

This workshop seems to be more about iphone applications, than mobile website design. I think I'm going to hyper-ventilate.