Textonic

ramble. rant. rinse. repeat.

Post archive for ‘Blog’

Another Year, Another Reboot

Can you smell that? It's the smell of fresh pixels, of computers overclocking to keep up with all the memory Photoshop's using. Yes, today is May 1st, the day of a million reboots. For those of you thinking I'm on an acid trip, I'm not. I'm talking about the CSS Reboot and it's Flash Counterpart, [...]


Categorized as Blog, Design, Elsewhere, Miscellany

Digg is Corrupted

Well, the past few days have been extremely interesting to me. I'm slowly seeing the downfall of Digg.com, a social networking website where users choose the stories they want to see, or so we all thought. In the recent weeks situations have occured where multiple stories appeared on the front page of Digg.com. The odd [...]


Categorized as Blog, Miscellany, Technology

I’m a Teen, not a Stereotype

Though I must admit that Random Shapes has been successful since its inception, I haven't seen any shift in the movement to shatter teen stereotypes. If anything, I seem to be getting more dirty looks, comments, and emails from adults. One thing I've noticed is that nobody seems to pay attention to anything I say, [...]


Categorized as Blog, Miscellany

The Move is Over

Finally, I've only been anticipating this moment for the past three weeks now. I've finally moved from my old home to my new one, and with my own bedroom to boot. On this note, I have to apologize for the lack of posts lately. What with the yard sale, performing maintenance on everyone's computers (actual [...]


Categorized as Blog, Design, Miscellany

Question: Is April Fools still cool?

Is it just me, or has April Fool's Day lost its attraction? Years ago I remember plotting for months at a time ways to pull pranks on my family, but it all seems worthless now. With the popularity of the internet almost every website seems to feel they need to pull a prank. Slashdot released [...]


Categorized as Blog, Design, Media, Technology