I promise I won't bite, no matter how delicious you are @_@

I whipped up a quick Mindsay Wiki entry for myself. It's pretty much an extended profile that, honestly, probably sums up every post I've ever made here into one wiki entry.

Have at it. If you want to edit it, go for it, the more words the merrier.

I'm almost amazed this is still here... If I ran Mindsay I'd purge three-month-abandoned accounts in a heartbeat >_>.

Well, hi.

I'm doing more work over the summer. Yay. I'd like to finish asap though... need to get out.

Podcasts worthy of mention:
bdtsp
TWiT with Leo Laporte and his henchman
Security Now with Steve Gibson, one of the smartest people I have ever even heard about.
"Thing A Week" - Jonathan Coulton. Musical-based podcast, he writes and produces an acoustic-y little tune every week.

I can't really provide links to any of them except BDTSP. A quick search of the iTunes Podcast Directory will get you there.

Best Wishes,
Internet Coder #5266245

Well, since I've gone and commented a few places, I suppose people will be checking out whatever I've got written here, which is... well, not much. Or nothing. Or it was nothing, because I'm currently typing what I suppose constitutes something. _{THAT DOES NOT COMPUTE.}

The other day I went on a grand adventure in the land of "what happens if you have a very large pagefile on a secondary hard disk which, for reasons unbeknownst to you, has a kernal problem and some broken sectors, and the pagefile is corrupted, yet Windows continues to try and access it". The adventure did not go well. I should probably just stop cheating and buy 4gigs of RAM :0.

I'm doing some PHP work for my gaming clan (because its fun to play together). New site layout, completely interfaced with forums, fun stuff. Unfortunately IPB is a complete and total bitch to work with, or so I thought until I discovered the beauty of the IPB SDK. I love it when someone else does all the work . Aaand... .well, I thought you might want to know that, o anonymous reader of the internet.

ooh look theres a button down there that says 'Publish En

Well, I've either been a busy bee, or a pretty idle bee depending on your perspective. I haven't posted in this because...

1. Battlefield 2. I am thouroughly enjoying BF2.
2. Finishing a client site which, for $50, is very powerful. Too powerful. Why am I charging this kid only $50!?
3. Debating with myself whether or not I'll be a shark with this kid (I know he is a kid) over this site. I think I'll undercharge for it, he's younger and doesn't have a ton of money. Besides, it's all starters. He will come back for little fixups after his 6 months free are used up.
4. School. Getting school'd is rough. I'm acing all of my classes effortlessly, but the busywork takes up so much time.

So there we go.

_FIREFOX!

Well, time for an actual post. The Internet is the stage o' the world, wonder what will happen here.

At the moment I am working on four websites independantly, and two jointly (which is plenty considering I hand code everything out of Notepad; I can't stand WYSIWYG editors). Basically, business is doing well. I think I'll be finishing up two of them soon and picking up a new one over the holiday, which is great. The thing that interests me, however, is how some people find me. I'm one person on the internet. I've gone and created what I feel is a handle that sticks in your head pretty well (Sir Whilms even seems odd to me), but I still would never expect people to distinguish me from any of the other 1_E100 web designers out there. (Ugh, a Google in that notation... I'm such a nerd).

Google, actually, ties in with this post pretty well, but that's for later.

Basically, I've never once bought an ad. Never. I rarely pay any attention to ads, no matter how well they fit in with the context of a page. I just find forums, establish myself as someone who makes (good) websites, and things just happen. Any aspiring web designers may want to write that one down.

And now we move into the subject of web advertising. I'm pretty sure every seasoned web surfer on earth has become banner-blind. If you see something that looks remotely like a banner ad on any side of any page, it gets ignored. When ad firms figured this out, they designed annoying DHTML and Flash ads that litterally hijack your web surfing experience by moving/popping up/combusting smack dab in the middle of what you're trying to read. The very concept of forcing a users computer to do something (open a window), or literally stealing attention by moving in front of the actual content, just to show ads for what is invariably a ho-hum service makes my blood boil. Google Ads are the overachievers of web advertisements. They work well, they're driven by very powerful technology, and the ad seller can change the colors to blend with their site design better (which scores extra points with me, I'm obsessive over that sort of thing).

....

Ok, that was a bit of a mind dump. The odd thing is, I just suddenly ran out of anything to say at all. I work on websites and prefer Google Ads for their coolness.

Uh, that is all.

(I think tomorrow I'll spill my thoughts on something slightly more intersting... it's like 1:00 AM here and I really need some sleep)