I recently learned that Moleskine’s oh-so-legendary link to Chatwin and Hemingway is nothing but inauthenticity; the Moleskine of today is not a direct descendant of any notebook used by famous authors of yesteryear. My search for a notebook with a real legacy led me back to France, Chatwin’s original country of supply, and the boutique collections of French stationer Bloc Rhodia.
As I started development of the new hyalineskies codebase this weekend, I found a total lack of standards in WordPress theme development. I needed a robust, extremely flexible framework with which to base my newest theme and all of my themes thereafter; after some investigation, I found that that meant developing something much bigger than I had expected.
I’ve received too many comments lately asking for my opinion on VIRB°, a new social network by design-oriented Unborn Media. While Virb’s aesthetics are certainly nice, history has proven that usability and aesthetic aren’t the primary reasons for social network adoption. I’ll play the skeptic on this one.
An old fantasy from elementary school leads me on a quest to build the ultimate in “secret software:” a working HAL 9000-style computer with the ability to aggregate all of my life’s data into one spot while turning my apartment into a fully-automated, remotely-accessible abode. The cost constraint? Under $50. 200 hours of development time. The expected value: thousands of hours of time.
My little 2007 Scion has been really annoying me as of late: its lacklustre handling and high centre-of-gravity finds me wrestling to keep it pointed around high-speed sharp turns and linear in poor weather conditions. For some reason, though, the little car has been inspiring my actions in some of the weirdest of ways.
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