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Update of the Day

Gradually we are going to trek inside this marvelous world of user interfaces. We manipulate information using a definite mental model and our job is to recreate a newer model atop this existing one to reach ultimate tranquility, transparency and accuracy.

The best user interface should be quintessential. But it never hurts to look polished and beautiful. Polish is an important degree of any design since patterns and textures give a delicate notion of the quality of the core underneath the veneer. That is, form and function may and should blend. Take either away and the whole pyramid would have collapsed.

In intuition we believe.

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Nota

Computers are bicycles for the mind. Tools are apparatuses (apparati!) of the human brain. Platforms are the stages on which applications prosper. Weeds in gardens may either denote poor management or fertility. Without conductors there would be no sound. The best ones empower.

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Revolvus

There is a silence where hath been no sound

There is a silence where no sound may be

In the cold grave, under the deep deep sea

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Nota

突然想到之前做的小書裡面，有人寫著「總統馬英九的美名遠播」，真是讓我有滄海桑田之感。到時後書本送去「國家」圖書館存檔過個十年再拿出來看，不知道該仁兄會怎麼想。另外，還有這種文字：「我據實以答，告訴他們陳水扁是台灣政府腐敗的最主要原因，也談了台灣的民主制度和效率低落的問題。」我已經不知道提早看出兩造貌似實話的謊言根本都是謊言，以及拒絕選擇其中一邊站，究竟是不合群還是孤單。

我們有沒有可能讓所有下一代的孩子，永遠不再必須面對這種因為自我發見被嚴重延遲，而在日後生出的困窘？有沒有可能不再有一個瀰漫死亡氣息的結構？總結：高等笨蛋的內團體。自以為是的笨蛋可以作出一點點事情，但做完了就會凋零。

但信仰的力量是不容否認的，即使有時候他們信仰的祇是糖衣，終究他們因為具有信仰，所以成了一點點事。

Update of the Day

New Portfolio Site. Experimental work on new & open navigation.

Hammertime

An imminent project. ; )

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Update

Things are proceeding faster than usual, and if fate favors — yes, if fate favors. A series of gleeful companions planned, illustrated, post-processed and are now ready for test-production.

Well, I just couldn’t believe a school like this actually holds two events in Taipei, and the second event takes place in a café. Please wait for me. I don’t need no more university fairs.

Finished lots of graphics in front of the laptop and finished the initial architecture (mostly retro-fitting the existing architecture back to a WordPress installation) of the imminent proj.ne. Fun to say, hack when you have to but do that as a plug-in.

On 960.css, it is good and people use it. But people use it like stock photography, and its unavoidable residue in your X/HTML markup kind of made me sick. And if you use stock photography or stock graphics, you end up having a project that screams “me too”. If you were going to use a grid system, please build it using your own parameters and take all those existing grids as a reference. If you were going to introduce it to your site, please at least build an interpreter (in case you were using ruby + webby or languages that does the trick) and keep all that grid_4, container_12 and so out of the picture. Of course sites may change rapidly and we still need some 960-prowess. Here is my proposal — wrap up a JSON object like this and throw most of your “static” elements in:

var monoBindings: {

'div#monoWrapper': 'c12',
'div#monoHeader': '12',
'div#monoStylistic': '4 pf2 alpha'

}

Then write a one-liner, utilizing jQuery, put before everything: preferably inside $(document).ready, or if you heart $LAB, its .block() :

$.each(monoBindings, function(parent, context) {

$(parent).addClass(context);

});

Now, no more sore eyes.

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It’s complicated.

One phrase to describe it all: premarital affair.

I am moving to another spot in the city really soon, leaving this place behind. There are 200s of books to be carried over to the new place and I am looking for responsible couriers.

Let’s see what turns out next.

ps. Designing is like raising children, but you are free to kill your brainchild any time it misbehaves.

proj.hei

Page calling for consensus on that Heiti TC should be reworked. Project of Sept. 13, 2009.