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Introducing Myself

2008 | 1:48 pm | Filed Under: Miscellaneous

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Since I’m launching this blog now, I figured I ought to do the obligatory introduction post so that those of you who don’t know me can get a quick idea what to expect. Quite a few of you (bless your little souls) have been frequenting my photoblog, Captures Light, and wondering when I was going to breakout of the static index page and actually create a real blog… Well, here ya go!! After working on the design for quite a few months, now that it’s up, I realise how dark it is… That must have been how I was feeling at the time I guess. *grin*

Just as a brief overview for those who don’t know me… I’m a programmer, photographer, costumer, musician and mother/wife, and I’ll say this now, all parts of me share my brain equally. Therefore, expect to find an eclectic mix of content in this blog, from the latest CSS trend I’m dabbling in, to recent photographic discoveries, to musing on the latest 1400th century portrait gown I hope to recreate.

To the right, you can find a snippet of the latest entry from my photoblog, as the photography usually winds up taking priority one in my spare time, mostly due to my wonderful family, and the plethora of really good musicians I am lucky enough call friends.

Self-Portrait

That’s all for now. Say hi to the kids for me!

OH!!! I’m aware that the styling is not completely massaged yet for IE, particularly IE6, so my apologies to all IE6 users out there. I promise to sort it soon.

Approaching Cohesion

2007 | 1:48 am | Filed Under: Life

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I’ve been on the internet in some form since 1994, making my first webpage in 1995, back when everything was center tags and large fonts in Times New Roman on gray backgrounds. It was a fun era, full of exploration, trial-and-error, and copious use of the ctrl+R key. The first visual webpage came in 1997 as Netscape ruled the internet, and my only worries about content were a lovely summary of my friend’ top 5 dream Jeopardy categories (as borrowed from Douglas Coupland’s novel Microserfs) and a tribute to Dead Poets Society, my favourite movie at the time. I don’t even think they were called fansites way back then. It was at this point I actually started an online diary, a weekly - or more - essay about how college was going and where I might apply for my first job after graduation.

Then the job happened, and the sub-contract jobs to pay the bills, and the design inquiries, and forays into software development, the obsession with the perfectly layed-out table, then the perfectly layed-out div, and somehow in the middle of that, I missed the blog revolution, trading off spending energy on my own projects for spending energy on client’s project so i could buy a sony playstation.