November 21st, 2010 § Comments Off on One Day in Jerusalem § permalink
I wrote this that afternoon. I spent most of my walk letting these thoughts grow in my head into this narrative. When I got home, I wrote it all out in one go with very little editing. I wanted to get across the progression I went through during the day. After some minor editing, it was published by New Voices in their March 2002 issue.
Sunday, January 27, 2002
It was a gorgeous Jerusalem day; the sun was shining and there were people out in the streets. The temperature was at that in-between point where one could not decide whether to put on a hat or take off a sweatshirt. I left the apartment around 11:00 a.m. to go run some errands. I needed to talk to a friend at the bank downtown, get a new alarm clock, and buy some double-sided tape to hang a tapestry on the wall.
As I passed Tzarfat Square walking along King George Street, there was a loud crack that reverberated through the air. My first instinct was to try and write it off as construction noise, but inside I knew that was a lie. » Read the rest of this entry «
November 21st, 2010 § Comments Off on Credit Where Credit is Due. § permalink
Check out this highlight from the Chicago Bears week 11 win over the Miami Dolphins on Thursday: (Nov 18, 2010)
[If the video gets taken off YouTube, you can check out this link to the highlight on NFL.com]
November 21st, 2010 § Comments Off on WordPress as a CMS § permalink
I suppose, seeing as though I’m a web developer, my first post on my new WordPress blog should be about WordPress.
I first encountered WordPress a number of years ago when I was working on a project that never took off. I was intrigued by the idea of a simple interface for bloggers, and especially the multi-blog features.
Last year I took on a large project that I ended up basing on the Joomla framework. That was a very interesting experience. I found some parts of Joomla to be fantastic for giving me a platform on which to create, but other times it was a stifling mass of code. In particular, I needed to create registration forms with numerous fields. I spent a significant amount of time downloading, installing, testing, and rejecting various Joomla form components. I decided that I didn’t like any of them. Mostly, it was the clunky way you created new forms. They were trying so hard to create dynamic interfaces, but none of them were something I felt comfortable putting in front of the client without giving them a week long seminar in how to use it. » Read the rest of this entry «
