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Monday, September 16, 2002

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Another day, another 8 hours here at work. I got a new cellphone - Motorola P280. The advent of GPRS technology is upon us, it's only 2.75 extra a month (1mb transfer, 40 cents each additional mb) for the data with Voicestream/T-Mobile. I was sucessfully able to dial up via iR from my laptop @ 9.6k, so it's not required to use with a Palm or laptop. I don't quite know the details yet, but I imagine you should be able to get 40-50k via GPRS.

I got a call yesterday from the Satelite internet installer. The dish is going to be slightly bigger then a normal TV dish, they plan to mount it at seccond floor level, it's $100 more if they have to put it on a pole in the ground, or up higher on the house. The earliest I could get an appointment was October 4th, so I should be online and back in business by then. I hope to get to some more web stuff then I have been. I find it hard to sit still and work on it, but once I get in a groove I can't stop until I finish what I'm working on. If I'm doing graphics or whatnot, I can't just stop in the middle, I forget what combination of filters I was using... or how I blended layers or whatnot. That's what happened with the bubbles, they're all similar, but being done at different times they're just a little bit different.

I would like to do a redesign, the current design worked so well for what I started out doing, I think I'll get rid of the windows and words down at the bottom, maybe create another background and create a different theme, along the lines of the bubbles, the links embedded in the graphic background that jump out when you roll over them. I like the non-conventional.

The rating I got a while ago made me think about the feel of the site, what I have here for download, viewing, and what my "mission statement" would be. I am offereing media for the most part, things to think about, that I've thought about - and things I just plain want to say. I like to call it "digital media to stimulate the serotonin". Serotonin being one of the main chemicals released in the brain to create a pleasant feeling of well being, or happiness, if you will. I share the things that make me happy, experiences, people, places, pictures, music, movies... or that have given me some sort of catharsis for the better. I want to share the happiness that I find in every day things. I'm often referred to as being "amused with simple things". If you're amused with simple things, then it doesn't take much to make you happy. That's a good thing.

Phenylalanine is something that jumped out at me from a box of mints. It had a large warning for "phenylketylneurics" people who are intolerant of phenylalanine. I then noticed it was in Diet Coke and other drinks, candies, etc. It's also a chemical present in the brain that works closely with serotonin, so it went with the theme.

Because it's such an obscure word, a search on Google for "phenylalanine" in combination with "music" or "movies" brings up my site as the 3rd or 4th result. A clever marketing ploy, I must say. =]

I have a hankering to create, clever ideas for menus... but nothing to put on the other end of those menus, not enough content :] Function and form, fusion... fabooo.

Labels: 2002