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For those that have been waiting for it and those who haven’t, I’ve installed a zenphoto gallery here, which will be updated with important stuff I won’t be bothered to upload to flickr.

Just one album at the moment, some of my graduation photos. It will get bigger.

Have at them!

I’ve read and heard so much for this movie. Different opinions and harsh arguments (bless IMDb) from both sides. But I decided to give it a go, even if I’m late for the Oscar show.

I call a movie good when it touches me AND (like in && - absolute AND) has something to say. For example, the last scene in Titanic touched me, even got me wiping my tears off my embarassed eyes, but didn’t have absolutely nothing to give to me. On the contrary, Mulholland Dr. maaaybe had something to say, but didn’t touch me at all. Maybe because, hmm…I DIDN’T GET AN F’ING WORD. (sorry, fans, I guess I’m shallow)

But opinions are always subjective and humble, and in my humble opinion, “Crash” was a good, good movie. Several people lives revolving around racism, with constant up’s and down’s.

If you want to give a Canadian a chance to tell you about racism in States, give it a spin. You’ll like it.

(Matt Dillon & Thandie Newton were the extra touch for me, I love them)

Crash, Paul Haggis, Matt Dillon, Thandie Newton

Past week has come and gone in an amazing rush.

Since last Wednesday, the author of this blog, amazing me, is graced with one more paper. A degree in Computer Science Department of UoC, or University of Crete, Greece.

It’s less important than it sounds, but hey, it’s my degree.

I leave you hastily with a photo, and a promise to write a post soon about Gamics, which I attended during the weekend.

Notice the degree sexiness. Sexee.

Also, a post about my brand new iPod nano that my crazy friends gave to me at my graduation day.

Yeeha, I’m a Apple child now.

graduation, degree, ipod nano, apple

Ten commandments, after several months of web design work in my part. Potential clients, please follow these:

1. Have a clear image in your mind about what you want to achieve with your website. Even a draft will do.
2. Try to look around the internet for competitors, and scribble down what you like about their sites.
3. Educate yourself about what’s the fuss about “copyrights”, and learn to obey them. Don’t tell your designer to “take a screenshot of this site and copy it in mine”.
4. Your designer is no teacher. She will help you around the web a little, but don’t except her to guide you step-by-step in how to search for porn sites.
5. Understand that you get what you pay. You cannot pay a lousy 200$ and all of a sudden you realize that “my site looks tacky”.
6. Your designer isn’t your friend. She just works for you, for some hours per day. Don’t expect that calling her at 2 a.m. will make her happy.
7. Content is the word. You must provide your designer with content. No, two competitor links isn’t content.
8. Pay in-friggin-time. If you suspect you don’t have enough money for your new site redesign, postpone it until you have.
9. For heaven’s sake, don’t insult your web designer. She’s a human being, probably more tech savvy than you, and sometimes she can’t take even the slightest of sly humour, coming of your part.
10. Finally, if you think you can do it better than your designer, sit down and do it yourself. Spare her the pain.

Of course, I don’t expect any of my current and future clients to do this. But that would be a happy, happy world for web designers.

client, good client

News Flash!

I recently updated my blog interface to include coComment support.

Do you know coComment? Thanks to Lea, I just recently found it too. It’s the first blog comments aggregator, still in beta. I tried it and it works pretty good, so why don’t you go there, give the people some love and the FF extension a try?

Spread the love. Include coComment in your blogs too.

coComment, blog comments, comments aggregator