I’ve written on this blog before 2003—which is the year I included in my tagline—but I nuked my archives over personal matters and started over, so I guess it’s since 2003. In eight years I have: written about my day-to-day life; opined on politics; offered non-starter solutions to social problems that would outlive me; had… Continue reading this entry

It’s not named after the virtue, but as tribute to Piet Mondrian, whose modern abstract work inspired the new header. I really wanted to start off with an outright Mondrian tribute, but primary colors used in his painting were used in early Microsoft software. It would’ve given an uncomfortably retro feel to what I was… Continue reading this entry

Sometime after 2006 I was unable to balance my time between payroll-type work, design-work, blogging, and tending to the design of my site. Every year I would feel the itch to redesign my site, trying to get a great “look” for it while juggling other responsibilities. This year, I decided I would take a break… Continue reading this entry

The greatest challenge I face as I prepare this site for some kind of relaunch has been the reorganizing of the blog posts’ entries. Years ago as I grew this blog I drew up all sorts of post categories, many of which I never really revisited. Such has been the scattershot nature of my writing,… Continue reading this entry

I have spent the past week or so finishing a project for a client, and as such I have gone dark here on OFJ. As with every other project that I do for a client, it has given me a few ideas for a redesign of the site, and a reboot of the content. I’ve… Continue reading this entry

Since I’ve joined Twitter on March 19th of this year I’ve felt a great resurgence in what I call my Idea Machine. For the longest time, blogging into the aether felt more like blogging into the nether. Twitter has helped me connect to people instantly, and the conversations I have had the past month have… Continue reading this entry

It’s been an exciting year in politics, but now that we have a result and my commentary will move to a more activist tone, I’ve decided to do majority of my poli-blogging on RedState. I might write an occasional polemic at AIR if I get Misha’s blessing. I do this because I intend to make… Continue reading this entry

My life: a constant work in progress and I wouldn’t have it any other way. – Set Your Goals: Work In Progress In keeping with my goal of changing what I write about here, I’m working on a redesign for this site that’s basically built from the ground up. It’s not as quick and dirty… Continue reading this entry

It started with Scott about four years ago, when I took the baby steps to design his site. I did it for a postcard and possible referral business. Over the years I’ve brought in quite a few design clients. Many have moved on, others have stayed with what I have done, while others I have… Continue reading this entry

After keeping quiet for the better part of three or four months I’ve decided to redesign my site for the turn of the new year and try something different with it. I’ve ducked out for the past year on political commentary because, well, because it sucks and it’s draining and after what I do on… Continue reading this entry

I won’t be redesigning the site; I like the way my site looks right now, with just a few minor changes I have procrastinated on. I am, however, going to be upgrading to version 2.3 of WordPress. However, I will be re-engineering the theme I use. I have used this same theme since before they… Continue reading this entry

The screenshot of a post with images turned off. This particular problem with firefox has bugged me from the very beginning: somehow the websites I make don’t play too nice with the images turned off, because the dimentions that I include are not honored by FF. If you go to Mark Jaquith‘s site and and… Continue reading this entry

Ever get the feeling you walk into your relatively messed up home or bedroom and not have the energy to do anything else but fall into bed and sleep, thus gaining the blissful ignorance of one’s one surroundings? Such is the feeling I have towards the blog right now. I am working on a redesign… Continue reading this entry

I decided to revive the definitive color scheme that I kept for more than a year. It only gets better with time. This is Version 5 of Ark.

Something’s different about the site, yeh? It’s a far cry from what it looked like before, but I decided to simplfy my task and to keep the content familiar by keeping some of the old visual elements and document structure intact. Enjoy Shiva; it’s going to be a bit cold here at OFJ for another… Continue reading this entry

As seen in my referral stats (replacing [bracketed] items with applicable info): http://images.google.[country TLD]/imgres?imgurl=[the URI of an image on my site] I already banned the Google Imagebot from my robots.txt; what’s this about?

So what does blogging as a team member at one of my favorite sites feel like? It’s quite refreshing, like a meeting at a bar with friends. Most of my political commentary will be seen there from now on; I think that I am ready, after posting less on my blog, to concentrate on things… Continue reading this entry