Jayeblog

If you see me walking around campus, or around town, or (starting very soon) around the city, you’ll almost always see me wearing a messenger bag on my back. I catch shit for it sometimes—people tease me about having a “man-purse”. I shrug it off, but in a way it’s true.

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I was reminded today at work that some people actually read my blog, so maybe it’s time for an update. Things have changed since March.

For starters: I’m in New York City, working at R/GA, a digital advertising firm in the Hell’s Kitchen area. They do all kinds of good work, for a lot of different brands. I’m on the tech team, doing front-end development, mostly Javascript and CSS.

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Ach, it has been an unbearably long time since I last Jayeblogged. I promise, I’ll be back to it very soon. In the meantime, check out some of the stuff I’ve been doing.

My iPhone site is completed. Only viewable on Mobile Safari.

RITI Mobile is complete, too. It’s an improv game library and random word generator, and it’s really awesome. It’s technically viewable on a desktop, but you really want to use an iPhone or an iTouch for this one too.

I designed some print media for the new teas we’re getting at the Leaf & Bean. I’m very pleased with them.

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Jayeblog’s a bit dusty, and for that I apologize. Life is busy for a third-year undergrad, and I’ve had a string of false-starts the last few times I’ve sat down to write here. It’s something I’d love to do more often, but I’ve discovered a few bugs with my blogging process.

Most of the time I’m sitting down to write about some new project I’m working on. As soon as I start to write, though, I inevitably open up Dreamweaver and begin fiddling with the project instead of blogging about it.

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What do you look for in a homepage? Are homepages even relevant nowadays? I think, ideally, your homepage is a page that grants you speedy access to any or all of your most visited sites. So when you open a fresh browser, or double-click the tab bar, or do the ctrl+t thing, what are your options?

There are a number of browser-based solutions. Opera’s Speed Dial (and its imitators) is a pretty nifty solution, offering nine spots to quicklink to your favorite sites. There’s also the ever-advancing curtain of address-bar intelligence, which are probably even faster than any page-based solution.

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