classified under Design, Personal
Inspiration is good. But the recent explosion of CSS and web design galleries has me spending valuable time looking through half a dozen sites looking for the latest design trends and new ideas. I am actually overloaded with inspiration!
Now I’ve heard of Information Anxiety. It refers to stress caused by the an overload or lack of information. I think the same applies to inspiration. So I’ve taken the definition of Information overload from Usability First and just replaced the word information with inspiration :-P.
Inspiration Anxiety: Stress caused by the inability to access or understand the inspiration you need, caused by inspiration overload, lack of clear organization to inspiration, insufficient inspiration, excessively difficult presentation of inspiration, etc.
classified under Books, Personal
I was shocked to hear Micheal Crichton passed away at age 66. I never would have guessed he was that old or that sick.
The guy was one of my favourite authors. Sure, he wrote a few clunkers if you’d compare them to other Science Fiction novels, but I think he knew exactly what the Hollywood studios were looking for. You can’t deny that each of his books had excellent a good premise. Though they were based on science, only about 5-10 pages in each of his books dwelled on the actual explanation. The rest had things being blown up/ eaten, bleeding, dying, shape-shifting, getting colder or evolving. Although they did all those things with strict adherence to reality/history/physics. I believe this because of all the references that he would include behind every novel 
Bottom-line: His books were good, not bad. There’s plenty of worse crap out there (ahem… Chetan Bhagat). Crichton was a best-seller. End of story. He will be missed.
classified under Design, Personal
Yay! The new site is up!
Finally, after 4 different re-designs and much deliberation over which CMS to use, my new site is live and kicking. The whole re-design led to a discovery of a process that many designers and some developers go through. This will be the subject of a later post.
Comments on the design anyone?