Meanwhile back at the ranch...

Yay update time!

Ok, not really yay, I have too much to write and not enough time to write it...

News flash: I attempted to play some golf yesterday and found out I really suck at it. The putting part is fine, getting the ball to the green however seems to be a bit of a challenge for me.

More news: Dear god what happened to the moose.

Also, I thought I would share one of the recent Cyanide and Happiness cartoons with my trusty audience. Click here to view(opens in a new window)
I would have posted it here, but that would require more effort, enough effort for me to say "fuck it, you lazy buggers can click for a change".

Carpe Diem baby!

For those of you that don't speak latin, that means "Seize the day".

The reason I am posting with this particular topic is because I just got myself inked with those words :)

If you're confused... well... just take a look:

I just got this done last weekend...

Now it's just a patient wait until I get the next ones done.

That was pretty much the most exciting thing I did all weekend... well... the most exciting thing I'm going to share on this blog anyway, hehe.

I guess this was a rather short update.., perhaps the next one will be a bit longer :)

QuickTunes - hmm because I'm lazy

I was just browsing for some random new software for my mac, and came across this little app called QuickTunes.

It's a small and lightweight program that sits in your menu bar, and will give you some nice and quick iTunes options from the menubar. As an added bonus, it also allows you to set global hotkeys.

If you're like me and are too lazy or find it too much of an inconvenience to go into iTunes every time you want to change volume/song/etc. then this app is worth a try.

You can find it at http://www.dbachrach.com/opensoft/index.php?page=QuickTunes.

Thats all - its 3.30am so I think I'll go do the sleep thing now :)

Hmmmm Multimedia

It's about time I update some more about the new job.

It's going well!

Ok, I know - you want to hear more. Fair enough. So after kind of getting settled in, I have been working on several projects, and in general I like the work I do there, it can be a bit stressful sometimes, but that is mostly attributed to Internet Explorer being a screwed up web browser.

In case you're wondering what it is exactly I do, here is a brief description.

I am a so-called Multimedia Programmer (this is a fancy term for HTML/CSS/JS Front end developer).

At my firm we have several people involved in the production of websites, the people I deal with the most are the designers and developers. I am their middle man.
I'm lazy, so I'll put this in point form.

• The designers do their thing in Photoshop and hand me and my colleague the final designs.
  
• We then cut the designs up (we don't actually "cut" the designs :P we take out the graphics and make them into manageable pieces for the design, like background images, buttons, headers ... stuff like that).
  
• The we code up the HTML and CSS and little bits of Javascript for the site.
  
• When we're all done with the initial layouts we import those into the custom CMS we use at our firm.
  
• At this point we do some tweaking and then hand the HTML/CMS templates over to the developers who code all the other functionality into the website.
  
• Possibly some design/structural changes take place, so we incorporate them.
  
• Some more tweaking happens here and there as elements of the site get modularized into the CMS.
  

Wow, that actually seems like quite a mouthful for a brief description...

So there you have it. Thats pretty much what I do.
Then there is of course other little random things, like developers needing help with some CSS or HTML and sometimes JavaScript, or one of the producers needing a few images resized.

Right - so small update turned long update, well for this time of the night anyway.

I think I might go get some shut-eye. I also realize you don't care that I'm going to bed right now, but I've already typed it, and it seems like a waste of time going back and erasing it.

Laterz

Jim Who? Ah Bourbon!

Wow, I actually made it onto the Jim Beam website.

I know what you are all going to say... you're going to say: "John, you're an alcoholic and why are you leaning behind the Jim Beam promo girl?".

Ok so, I may or may not have been drunk, but I wasn't leaning behind the promo girl.
I was swaying!

Just in case you're the disbelieving sort of person, here is the link to the photo on the Jim Beam website.
Also just in case - I'm the one in the green-ish shirt 2nd person from the left.

This actually was a few weeks ago at The Woodport Inn - where the Jim Beam Partycrew happened to be hanging out that night. I only happened to be there because the view is nice, and they sell Jim Beam (not like they don't sell it anywhere else, but any excuse to go out will do).