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New WalkAbout Logo
20th of July, 2009 in the year of our Lord
I just finalized a project with Greenville College Resident Life this morning. I was asked to design a logo for WalkAbout— a 10-day hiking trip in the Smokies.
I’ve gone on the trip twice so I had some personal experience to bring to this project. A big part of the trip is a 48-hour experience in which students fast in solitude with nothing but the clothes on their backs, a half-inch foam mat, a sheet of plastic (not quite big enough to completely shield from rain), and a page of the Bible. At the end of the experience, students are encouraged to create a circle of stones as sort of a personal monument.
The time I enjoyed most on the trip was at the end of each night when we would sit in a circle around a fire and just talk.
I drew on these two components of the trip to create this logo (and badge):
The only thing I don’t really like about it is the raised bar on the As, but they’re not too bad. That was one of the clients’ ideas to make them seem more like mountains.
I’m a Workaholic.
13th of July, 2009 in the year of our Lord
At the very least I have workaholic tendencies. I get so caught up in what I’m doing that I’d rather continue working than spend time with friends. Even right now, I’ve been drinking and all I can think about is working on learning about HTML 5 and CSS 3.
So here I am at 1:30am sitting at my computer about to play around with the internet.
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Somewhat related— my Gallup Top 5 Strengths are:
- Developer,
- Restorative,
- Belief,
- Responsibility,
- and Empathy.
The only one of those unanimously agreed upon by those who know me is Responsibility.
lunarpages
19th of June, 2009 in the year of our Lord
Lunarpages has great support.
My first domain purchase was greenvillegutterpress.com. I purchased this site as an add-on. I no longer wish to continue working on the GGP, so I contacted Lunarpages support about making curtisblackwell.com my primary domain.
My first email to them was at 2:32pm. They asked for verification at 2:54, I got back to them at 3:38, and the job was done by 4:03.
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Don’t use Yahoo! for hosting (or anything really…). Bad customer support, they have their own (crappy) control panel, and no phpMyAdmin. It allows you to install an old version and upgrade it, but then you get this message:
Your PHP MySQL library version 3.23.49 differs from your MySQL server version 4.1.14. This may cause unpredictable behavior.
If you’re having this problem, I strongly recommend transferring to Lunarpages. You’ll be amazed at how painless it is to work with them.
Free Nostalgic Video Game for both Mac and PC
26th of May, 2009 in the year of our Lord
I found this and thought I should share it. It’s a great open source version of Worms. The biggest problem I’ve discovered is that you need a PC to host a LAN game.
