css

i feel like i've picked up the basic skills to great, valid css. it's web-speak for i feel like i've learned a ton in the last year in regards to css design. to appreciate css, check out a site like this.

Grief. Finding God in all circumstances.

I came home from being out tonight to find a wonderful article written by a well-published author named John Piper in my gmail inbox. Piper's conviction & dedication to truth stands as his highest merit in writing. Yet, normally his newsletters don't arouse me. His books are a different story -- I read those.

But tonight's article was entitled, "Hello, My Father Just Died." I knew this was going to be a close encounter with my favorite author. Read the story here. And while you're at it, dwell on the deeper things of life tonight.

**cheers**

i'm thankful for...

+ the perfect job
+ a kick-butt creative director
+ music that takes me back to summer 2004
+ endlessly talented co-workers
+ my parents
+ singleness
+ the maturity that exudes one the age of 24 years
+ photoshop brushes
+ helping others

my compy

I hate my PC. I had moved my machine from my bedroom to the downstairs living room at the end of last summer. When I made the move, I wasn't even motivated to get my sound system hooked up again. To heck with it, I thought. I thought it an excuse not to use my computer in the evenings when I got home from work.

It's now March and I just set up the sound system. Which is great. Now I can listen to music @ home again.

I'm a mac geek now and have been for two years now. I was thinking about the point at which I became a mac-lover the other day. It was actually very, very frustrating for me to not have the right to right-clicking when I was taking design courses in college. After I worked a part-time college job on a mac, I fell in love.

I then remembered the several times I made fun of my professor's iBook while I was in college. To her face. We were good friends. I just liked kidding her. What a jerk I was!! I now make the same comments about PC's. Irony. Ignorance. Small-brained me. I'm surprised she didn't laugh me out of her classroom. Since I wanted to be a designer and all.

Okay, this post is over. My writing has been extremely kiddish and straight-forward. **end post**

the nyc

i'm moving to nyc. for a week. some people call it vacation. i call it fourth of july fun. i get to see the fourth celebrations & fanfares, i get to see george steinbrenner and the yankees and les miserables on broadway (hopefully in English, b/c i don't speak a lick of french).

cheers, friends!
sean

blogs & RSS

i'm updating a blog i coded for my friend last fall and I just love building upon the architecture i set up @ that time. normally, getting into old code & moving things around isn't any fun @ all -- but i built this one with some pretty good organization & i'm having fun adding functionality to it.

i'm actually stripping out comments b/c we were getting spammed quite a bit. but i'm adding an RSS feed, a paginator & making sure that Google loves the site enough to get some better traffic.

the blog is for jon shirley. i'll post the RSS feed once it's up.