Foobar Studios

In and of recent times, I have had a lack of time to really do any website design and development. I’ve posted a few random things I’ve come across while I’m at work, or get an email that includes such humorous things.  Needless to say, most of my time has been consumed by work, or by cleaning and fixing things in my apartment.

I would do more site development and such, if I happened to have any clients. Unfortunately, I do not. Spreading the word is hard in this small town, but I am determined to help create some competition around here, considering a certain company that does websites around here I don’t care for. They do most of their site programming and coding based on artistic design and layout.  Don’t take it wrongly, though. They do create some great site layouts, but what gets me is some of the extremely unnecessary coding that is taking place. It’s almost like they take a template, add what they need, then be done with it.

Hopefully this interview I had yesterday will spell out some good news for me. My current job is now in limbo. Working as a temporary laborer is difficult, but when that temporary agency loses their biggest contract to another company, and your job technically expires on February 2nd, it makes life even MORE difficult. I’m trying to decide whether I should go ahead and attempt to get hired on with this new company, or draw unemployment while waiting to hear from a certain local company to contact me back about a job. I really hope and PRAY that I get this job. It’s exactly what I’ve been wanting to do. All the work that pertains to it, is exactly what I went to college for. Not only do I want the job, I am striving for it!

Getting hired with that job will answer some of my prayers. Whether people believe me or not, I have been working EXTREMELY hard at finding a job that requires the knowledge that I have acquired through schooling. I didn’t work that hard to be relegated to a job that has no benefits, little pay, and absolutely no room to move up. Seemingly, I may be finally reaching a point where I am no longer “spinning my wheels”.

Ok, that’s enough of my rambling. Have a good night.

I couldn’t help but laugh excessively hard today when I came across this story (http://tinyurl.com/a973cn).

They didn’t properly back up their databases, they just kept their data mirrored. What a bunch of fools!

I’m going to start uploading some photoshop work that I have been practicing and doing. Enjoy it! Here’s my first one uploaded: (more…)

Well, the folks over at WordPress are already talking about 2.8. Check out their blog post here, and then take the survey here.

Alright, just let me embellish on the fact that President-Elect Barack Obama won the election tonight. I’m very excited, because the world is in need for a change. President Bush alienated practically the entire world, and McCain/Palin would have just made it worse for us. We are no longer the MOST powerful country in the world, and Obama is the right person to help bring us back to the forefront.

Alright, and back on course. I’ve been working on my site itself, and a site for a realty company that I’ve been developing off and on for the majority of the year. I’ve been utilizing some new AJAX tools and techniques, and I think I’ve fallen in love with AJAX. Now to soon explore Ruby on Rails and some new implementation ideas of PHP. I’m brimming with ideas since the failure of my work on ArtistOneAnalytics. I am hoping that he doesn’t utilize some of my website ideas that I’ve been stewing over for the last year or so. If he does, I feel it may be a breach of the NDA agreement we signed on. My ideas are my OWN, and not his.

Also, something that has been on my mind about today’s financial crunch we’ve been on: What would happen if the plan from Fight Club actually was implemented? Would they have redundancy set up well enough that it wouldn’t do a thing, or could something actually be planned out to the “T” that would utilize the destruction of the credit market? It’s an interesting concept that Chuck Palahniuk explored.

EDIT:  For those who are curious why I like Obama, I’ll try to post an elongated write-up about it.  There’s a lot to say about him.

Still working on getting things set up.  Doing a lot of design for my website itself.  Can’t wait to get it up and running!

It may come in tiny increments, but I have achieved the successful move to Dreamhost!