Website Fit For A King

November 30, 2006

I just got done developing a very simple website for a local pizza and Italian restaurant. Very simple and affordable for our client. Check out King’s Pizza and let me know what you think. Let me know if it looks funny and what browser/OS you are using.

I’m A Quitter!

November 27, 2006

Update: I failed to quit smoking after something like 6 days. I quit quitting, so the title of this post still applies. Carry on.

It smells, it makes me smell and it turns my lungs crispy and black. That’s right, we’re talking about cigarette smoke. Sure, I love to walk around the city with a smoke in lip or accompanied with a glass of wine, but do I really need to have a smoke 10 minutes after I get up in the morning? Or everytime I get in the car? Or every 20 minutes while at work? No. I could easily save all these plastic memories but is it worth my health?

I’ve noticed it most in the past few years with my singing voice. I imagine my lung capacity is 40% of what it was before I smoked. I know that cigarette smoke gave me a “rustic” tone to my voice which I actually like, but I’d love to be able to take in more air to support longer, truer notes. That’s not the only reason I’m quitting. I’m quitting so that I don’t have to lie about it to potential girlfriends. It makes me look weak. We started a kitty here at work and Mike and I (who smoke like its going out of style) are giving $5 everytime we want to smoke. If we want to smoke, we can only at the office during the week and must pay $5. The winner after a few months takes both kitty’s. That’s really whats going to get me going. I hope Mike is weak. He’s not in the office yet but I hope hes hurting and weak so at least I can make some money out of this trying time. (The whole next week I may be a bastard, but please understand.)

Thanks to my friend Christynn I have found QuitNet and after signing up it told me that every year I quit smoking I would save $1,551.25. And also, every year I was still not smoking, would add 1 month, 17 days and 9 hours onto my life. Sweet. I’m gonna be around for a long while, suckas. In about a year of not smoking I will reduce my risk of cancer and heart disease by 50% of where it is now. Within 3 days I will be rid of nicotine in my system. Within 10 years of quitting I will have reduced my risk of heart disease and cancer to right around if I never smoked at all, so, here’s lookin at me in ten years.

Do it yourself: Lightbox

November 06, 2006

We recently contracted a website for a restaurant that wants to shoot it’s signature dishes to be published on their online menu so we had to figure out the best solution to take well lit photos in controlled white environment that would allow me to pull it out easily in Photoshop.

I found a great article entitled Do It Yourself Lightbox on Joseph Holt’s website. I followed his directions and 15 minutes later and $80 lighter, I had my very own lightbox. I’ve posted my pictures here so you can see the results. I’m pretty excited about it, myself.

I used a Trisuit cracker box because it was colorful and had depth and was the best thing I could find in the office that day. And, I like Triscuits, big deal.