Archive for April, 2006

site performance – wanting feedback here

I’m sure all of you have noticed how lethargically slow my site is. First of all, I would like to know how the performance is from other places, as my personal connection is pretty unreliable to test a site with. But, I also wanted to know some other things, as I am thinking about switching [...]


myspace design ver. 1.1

Mike Davidson has done a much better job of articulating the horrific design problem that is known as myspace. He has actually worked to create a better looking myspace page by hacking the code. Check out his blog, it’s good to know that other people are worried about the atrocious design of myspace. Also, [...]


internet explorer

internet explorer

First of all, I would like to apologize for my recent rantings on seemingly mundane and insignificant matters such as internet service providers and browsers. With my first year review rapidly approaching, I find myself more and more cynical and just plain bitter about many things. I realized how bad it had gotten when I [...]


a holiday

Since I enrolled in grad school, I have somehow managed to stop photographing as much as I used to. This is very disheartening and alarming. However, what I find very interesting is how many of my friends in grad school have been experiencing the same thing. Personally, I have found it very difficult to come [...]


who is Tom?

So I signed up to myspace today, simply because I was getting angry at not being able to see my friends blogs and other content. In accordance to my last post about myspace, I was again completely disappointed with the myspace site and their apparent lack of concern regarding design and layout. Oh, and [...]


apple and windows

apple and windows

so apple has released boot camp, which allows mac users to boot windows onto apple computers with the new intel processing chips. I must say that this sounds pretty amazing, especially considering that now you can buy an apple and get the best operating system in the world and windows xp (so you can run [...]


website revisions

I have been working pretty hard on the website lately, refining the visual look of the site and making browsing a little easier. I’ve been engrossed in code, writing html and CSS. I have changed things a little bit, but the majority of you will probably barely notice a difference. Oh well, at least [...]