As part of my newly launched business, I first bought one brand of DVD and any errors I had were a result of development, by which I mean, I hadn't yet got the product into a workable format. I had no problems due to media errors.
I went back to MicroCenter in Rockville and bought in bulk.
In the second batch of DVD data disc pressings, I had a 100-percent error rate of a product that pressed fine on the other brand.
In the current stock at MicroCenter, as regards Data DVDs,
Magnavox == GOOD
Memorex == CRAP.
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Congratulations on the new business, Hardman. Is it related to your recent patent grant? Do you have a website for your business yet?
I’ve got an ex-tech friend who works at USPTO as an examiner and a dad who is perennially coming up with vague, unpatentable patent ideas, so that’s my main insight into that whole world.
If you need any cut-rate graphics work for your new business, I’m your person. Coming up with logos / service marks could be kind of fun. I could work with your existing visual ideas/sketches if you have any.
And if you end up disliking my work and don’t want to use it, I can take that, too. But I’m really getting ahead of myself here. I realize that you’ve kluged a lot of your web graphics in the past; they’ve got that classic Web 0.0/1.0 look.
Don’t take my tabloid-style blog graphics to be a representative sample of my style, by the way. That is just blog eye candy done mostly in poor taste. I can do prettier/slicker stuff.
Here’s a crassly commercial web layout I did last spring:
Luxury Condo Vacation Rental — Scottsdale, Arizona
If you click on that you’ll also see some good examples of over-the-top ad copy that I came up with to pad the graphics with.
So, Hardman, feel like renting a luxury vacation condo in the golf capital of the American Southwest? ;}
Now that Phoenix is a foreclosure hotspot, I don’t think this condo has as many takers as it used to. It’s actually not a bad little place; the pools look kind of nice.
If you need anything sexy and Web 2.0-looking, I can try to come up with something. I can also do a lot of that CSS junk, too; it can be tedious to work with but it’s pretty good for layout/flow control, etc.
I can also do tedious techie grunt work if you have any of that.
Hahah, “networking” is fun. Who needs Facebook when you can leave shameless pleas for freelance work on people’s blog comments, anyways?
(Actually I’m on Facebook, too, but that’s a long story.)
Hell, at this point I’d probably barter web monkey work for guitar lessons.
Re the whole Web 0.0-1.0 aesthetic:
My vote for one of the kookiest examples of this would be the Heavens Gate cult website.
It has all the obvious giveaways that it was composed in the nineties: 8-bit graphics, pics coopted from Hubble imagery, high-contrast black-and-jewel-tone color scheme, liberal use of Times New Roman, and on and on. The only thing missing is the html eyesore known as the <BLINK> tag.
Oh yeah, and that website also has more than a little pre-millenium tension to boot.
Yeah, I used to be an art student with avant-garde-evangelizing art instructors. Alas, it’s pretty hard to shake their influence, even when just you’re doing crass commercial freelance work on the side.
Hmmm, guitar work bartered for web-monkey lessons...
As for earthops.org, about half of that was done on a monochrome monitory with a "Hercules" adapter card, which barely ran "X" and all I had for a compatible browser until maybe 1999 or so was Netscape-4.
Due to the very HTML-3.1 Transitional nature of klaatu's Earth Operations Central page, and also considering that later on I had more and other things to do, even trying to bring it up to HTML-4 Strict standards was clearly going to be too time-consuming. Besides, the importance wasn't the appearance, the importance was the links.
I had to slap all of that together without search engines, you know.
If you'd like to see some real Web-0.1 work, see this. I actually use <blink&ft; tags. Intentionally.
The thing is, I have always been more intent on pointing out that when I say something in a way that people should read as a definitive declaration, or when I write it, it's not just my opinion, it's a well-supported opinion with lots of science backing it.
Al Gore might claim to have invented the InterNet, but I was definitely on the Global Climate Change page long before he was. ;)
I used to get mail from people at NASA who told me that they really loved it because it has all of their "most used links" on one page.
I suppose I could upgrade it somewhat, but WTF. I leave it there as a monument, a time-capsule (as it were), to the early days of the WWW.
BTW I have considerable feelings of guilt over the whole Heaven's Gate thing. See this one bit of unsupported speculation from UseNet March 23, 1996.
Perhaps you like the looks of the new earthops.COM better? Sure it's just another MediaWiki but what the heck.
BTW, so far the business website is here.
Hmmm, I wonder if all of those spiffy police computers in the squad cars boot from read-only media with preconfigured IP addresses? If so, why wasn't I ever paid for the patent violation? ;)
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