It’s been a while since I posted. I finished the spring semester with a 3.77 GPA, and a 3.84 GPA overall. Hard work but it’s worth it. I recently redesigned my website to advertise myself as a freelance designer. I think the redesign is a success – warmer colors, better content layout, and slick jquery and mootools effects. I hand-coded the static pages with PHP, CSS/XHTML, JavaScript (mootools & jquery), and of course kept WordPress for my blogging backend.

I integrated the flickr API into my frontpage to display random images from my flickr account. I also integrated my last.fm account to display a live stream of the album covers to the music I am currently listening to – thanks to KomodoMedia for the Sexy Music Album Overlays! In addition, I’ve got my facebook status being piped into the ‘About’ page, of which I had to run through some loops to get working.

I am currently looking for web design or other graphics related work, and I hope my redesign will help bring in some clients with the aid of craigslist and other resources.

I’ve been lazy lately with posting content on my blog. I know, I will admit it, this easy school vacation time is really relaxing and enjoyable. However, I have been actively working on a bog redesign, but I need to dedicate more time and keep plugging away at it, otherwise it will never get finished.

Lastly, I have purchased a 24″ LCD monitor! The Samsung TOC T240 to be exact, and it looks amazing! A huge 1920 x 1200 resolution, support for HDMI, DVI, USB and others. But best of all, 24 inches of screen real estate, i’m stoked! I’ll post pictures when it arrives, so come back soon!

Just on time for the release of Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex… grrr i cannot wait much longer! Gnome-Look.org has slightly redesigned the look of their website, giving it a more modern, dare i say, facebook-esk look. I like it though. The sidebar menus & tabs are simpler and easier to read. The colors are more visually appealing and give it more of a Web 2.0 look.

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