I will begin by stating that jQuery has certainly made everyone’s life much, much easier. Specifically, I find that I enjoy the toggle function.

You see the little RSS icon on my bar over there? You know, the orange square. Click it – I dare you. See how nice and easy that text appears? Well, you can add a nice, easy, and cute RSS feed to your own site as well.

All it takes is a little bit of imagination, a few snippets of code, and an even smaller amount of jQuery. Read more »

In my last post, I stated that to be successful, a person has to be interesting as well as take an interest. I explained very briefly a few ways in which this could be accomplished – namely, reading and getting out there. But how does this make a person successful?

First, let’s assess our definition of success.

What is success?

You might say that it’s being a big CEO. It’s being at the top of the pyramind in your field – the big cheese, the big guy with cars and money and a trophy wife. Or maybe success to you is being able to retire and live in the tropics. Is that what you feel will make you happy?

Certainly, I’d love to be able to retire and live in the tropics! However, I feel that that’s more something that comes after success. As for the other statement, have you ever heard the statement ‘money doesn’t buy happiness’? Unfortunately, it doesn’t. It might be able to give you more perks in life, but I feel that many people fall into the pitfall of money somehow purchasing their happiness for them.

Step one. Take a deep breath. Read more »

As some know, I always tried to help out where I could at LiveJournal where I could. I even took an official design and coded it into HTML/CSS for them (which was perhaps a highlight of my summer). I also volunteered (and still do, to a point) as a support volunteer for LiveJournal – helping users do things with their account, such as confirm their email address, debug their CSS, et cetera. It was definitely a highlight for me, and I greatly enjoyed it.

Then, LiveJournal was sold yet again, and many of the friends I had made in their San Francisco office were summarily laid off. I do believe I started stepping away from LiveJournal at this time, as I suppose I sensed that things were taking a turn. I worried about the blog. Read more »

So, for the last day, I’ve been working on my blog design.  For some strange and unknown reason, the sidebar had randomly shifted downward – despite me not having changed anything.

Now, I use WordPress, and pride myself at having skills and understanding of the CMS.  My old manager from my last day job taught me much of what he knew about WordPress; the rest I learned through reading and experimenting, and creating new WordPress themes.  I had Dre set up a subdomain on the server where the site is hosted, and WordPress was installed onto it, giving me a place to practice and play with what I saw as a fun, fascinating toy. Read more »