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Hello random joy

There are times when the internet confounds me. I work as a freelance developer and often spend time surfing and surfing to find things to inspire me or make me more engaged with my own inner creative. Last week something happened that started normal and then suddenly spiralled into some genuine interaction leading me to new a bright future of endless influences.

The catalyst a short trip to cssmania.com for some clever inspiration led me to Mr. Dan Klammer’s personal portfolio http://danklammer.com/, which is captivating in its own right. After a couple of usual poking around examinations I really started to look at his site. Read content, see social icons, etc, and discovered a little link to 8tracks.com or more specifically to a mix he had posted on 8tracks. The mix was great and his followers also had profoundly good taste in music and so I proceded to listen to their work and made an account for myself.

Someone out there is snidely thinking, “Good job grandpa, you finally made into the mixtape digital age.” Shut your food hole mouth breather.

I really truly love this site, if for no other reason that its elegantly simple and utterly usable interface allows me to take the art nerd passion of Rob Gordon and share it with friends and family. The selfless nature of making things for other people (like mixtapes) is a great exercise and it can turn you on to all sorts of great artistry that you didn’t know was there.

Thank you internet for making me believe in the mystery and magic of information, again.

Best, Z

A note worthy leap in technology

Content management systems are as fickle as the communities that support them, and often their improvements reflect general trends in the user base, but not many of them have the courage to leap out of their comfort zone and evolve into something else.

WordPress’ Thelonoius update, is something interesting. The once playful attitude of the blog software turned semi-cms is now making a turn into a big new world. With addition of taxonomies, custom menus and now custom post types, the once blog synonymous system is looking like its fellow Opensource juggernaut Drupal.

Good things come to those who love to wait for great improvements. I hope that this upgrade doesn’t foreshadow a negative change in the WordPress community.

Z

Repitition and Mind Bending Reality

There seems to be a loop or perhaps a cycle where everything eventually folds onto itself. A wrinkle in the fabric of space time that shows us the future and the past at the exact same time. For your consideration on the movies we love:

There seems to be something deliberate and deceptive about our culture. I love the idea of accidental replication but this is really not one of those cases.