Yes yes, I have updated the theme. No I haven’t played around with it yet enough to really make it ‘customized’.Yes, I AM constantly updating this. I hope to have it finished by next weekend, but who knows. For now just know that this is a work in progress and it’ll look like crap until it gets to a point where I go, “Okay. I’m done messin’ around with this.”
All I know is that I’d rather just come up with modifications on a basic structure that I like than designing a whole different site and THEN finding a theme that matches it…
Whew.
Edit: Blah. I seriously have designers’ block on this design. I can’t get anything going. Maybe I’ll try again later.
So you may have noticed that my domain was down for a little while. When I went to renew the domain name, I was asked for a username/password. I forgot the password. So I told it to reset my password and send me the link in email.
One problem.
It was to an email that I no longer use. From 6 years ago. Uh-oh. That’s trouble. When I contacted the domain registrar, I was told that I needed to fax the new email address that is to be associated with the account and a picture ID like a license. Sent all that in. Then I’m told that the address on the license doesn’t match the address that I registered with, which was my old apartment when I was in college!
ARGH.
I explained that I live there anymore, and it still didn’t seem to make any difference. So for now my hosting company has just charged my new card with the old login info and we’ll see how long that goes. The only trouble of course is, ‘What happens when it’s time to renew again?’ Yeah. So hopefully I’ll get a response back from Tucows that will explain how I’m supposed to circumvent this but Tera-byte, the hosting company, has been excellent at helping stuff to get through. So mad props to them.
If anyone’s ever looking for a host, I’d go for Tera-Byte. Sure they don’t have a snazzy lookin’ website. But their tech support is phenomenal and their prices are affordable. I’d definitely recommend.
Alright I’m out.
And no, I’m not talking about the national championship game. Like ever… okay maybe later sometime when I’m not down about it. Haha.
So I finally upgraded my WordPress installation from what, like 2.1?? (This is 2.5 now.) I feel so behind the times. I was actually pretty impressed with how easy it was, but I totally would not have done it unless I got the spam injects that I was getting. Apparently there were a lot of hidden spam about Viagra and Levitra injected into my main template file. Suck. So hopefully this will stick and I won’t have to worry about ruining my SEO because Google sees my page as a spam site.
However my picture gallery isn’t working properly; I’ll work on that stuff tomorrow sometime I guess.
Just as most of you I’ve been crazy busy but there are two posts coming– one on the Kanye West concert that I went to (mebbe some pics if Vinni has any time to send them to me), and about my newly shorn head. Awww yeah! So those should be up tomorrow. *cough* AMY *cough*
Wow. And you thought my name was weird. (Admit it!) Apparently there are at least TWO sets of parents who felt that Vinoj would be a good first name to give their newborn son. I’ve always maintained when people ask me what my name means that my parents were in a hazed drunken stupor.
But considering that neither of my parents drink, I guess that just adds comedy and isn’t so much part of the truth.
No, the truth is that my cousins are Vinod and Manoj, and I sorta happened to be born in a month between the two bookends. (October 25, and they January and August, respectively.) So I suppose my parents thought it would be fitting that I have a name that’s an amalgam of the two. I guess I’m a “joiner, not a divider” or some sort of intermediary.
Alas, I digress. SO my co-worker Justin sends me the link to another Vinoj, and yes I knew there were other Vinojs out there, but another Zacharia?? My eyes bugged out. Of course he’s got that excessive ‘H’ at the end, so I guess my family is just to the point. So I perused through the site, left him a comment, and he’s messaged me back too on here, on the previous post I believe. He’s also got his life much more in order than I. He’s married, got a kid on the way, and so on. Me? I’m a single guy trying to make it through the THUG LIFE of being a web developer. Cuz you know… all thugs are actually web developers when they’re not straight up gunnin’ or selling crack, or whatever else they do.
I didn’t receive a phone call today regarding a new job, which was a bit disheartening. I was thinking I might be getting an interview today, but that doesn’t mean that I am about to lose all hope (just approximately 50% of it.. haha). So now, I focus on my current client that needs me to come up with another mock for him, which I hadn’t seen coming. It’s sort of a difficult thing, because summoning creativity isn’t something that you can just do at the flick of a switch, but I’m in an industry where that’s exactly what you have to do.
I suppose this is something that everyone who has to do commercial art has to deal with, but I spent hours today trying to come up with something that I would be happy with. Sure I could’ve half-assed it, but that’s not my style. If you’re going to do something, give it your best – pretty much my mantra. So I’d come up with a design, decide it was shit, and then scrap it and start over. Now, at 1 am, I think I have the header of the new design down (the header is the top part of a site by the way– on this site it would be the random pictures of me with Vinoj.com written). Now I need to worry about navigation and column layout. I don’t know if I work in a way that’s out of the norm of most designers, but it’s just the way that I’ve worked for years.
I also decided to send thank you notes to the people that interviewed me, because…. well… I think it’s good manners. And good manners are always something that we can all add a bit more of in our lives.