I’ll get around to making this look a little better. I have no time.
Apocalypse Camera
If anyone is interested in watching something bad happen tune into the live broadcast of the initial run on the Hadron Collider on Septemer 10, 2008. I like how the scientists say that nothing bad will happen, but the intention of the collider is to replicate the energy formed at the big bang. And it’s suppose to be REALLY hot, something like 100 times hotter than the sun (that may be way off, but I know it’s hotter than the sun…which is still super hot). And they believe it could create small blackholes. And then they follow that up by, “but nothing bad will happen because all of those things will be contained in a small controlled environment.” Mmmm hmmm, I bet that’s what they said when they first started playing around with nuclear fusion. And when have we ever been able to contain any other fission reaction? H-Bomb anyone?
I guess they know what they’re doing though. Luckly I’ll get to play Spore for one day before we get sucked into a black hole.
New Theme, or Lack of Theme
I have to applogize for the lack of personality in this theme, but after looking for a REALLY complete theme to build my own theme off of I found this, Thematic.
They consider it to be a “theme framework” and it seems to be really complete. They have a lot of the options available for a wordpress theme already included and should be a great theme to start with.
Anyway, time for bed.
Sarah Lacy Event
I had a blast seeing and hearing what Sarah Lacy had to say about her new book and entrepreneurial ventures in Silicon Valley and Omaha. I think her book is going to be very interesting and I’m looking forward to reading it.
On the other side, I really enjoyed meeting all the people that are interested in making web development something special here in Omaha. I really appreciate everything that Jeff Slobotski (Silicon Prairie News) and Dusty Davidson (Brightmix) are doing for the web community here in Omaha.
With as interesting as last night was I’m really looking forward to going to BarCamp Omaha on August 15-17.
And also one last thing that I found out about last night is Refresh Omaha, which I think is a great idea and I would really like to be involved as much as I can. I think Omaha has the talent to make it a great place for web development to thrive and it’s a great place to be involved in the web scene since it seems to be growing at a great speed thanks to the individuals who are willing to take on the challenge of starting their own company.
So all in all I had a great time last night and the future looks pretty bright here in Omaha.
Working with Designers
This is a great resource for people who need to work with designers. Communication is key when you’re trying to develop a good design and this would help clients a lot. I think.
This is my favorite part of the article:
10) Don’t tell your designer how to design. That’s not your area of expertise. Give a designer your requirements and preferences, but also the freedom to create something that answers them as effectively as possible. If you micromanage a designer, they won’t be motivated to do anything but cash your check.
http://www.will-harris.com/design/working-with-designers.html