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I made some change to a setting in the Admin part of the site and BAM! The site got some internal error and stopped working! It’s actually been a few days since this happened and I finally got around to getting it fixed. What a pain!
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I signed up for a Six Sigma Green Belt course that you take on-line. It officially began February 1st. I just really started getting serious about it last night. I’ve got to get off my mental couch and get cracking!
Tonight is the first “live” class. This will be happening every Tuesday night for the remainder of the course. The rest of the lectures are videos with accompaning slides. The course also came with a thick binder with more information on each module.
I am trying to take notes in a way that the notes could be the starting point for creating my own Six Sigma “prep class” on Chomer.com! It’s just an idea… we will see where this will go!
Wish me luck!
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When I got home last night I was hoping to get at least one item of the three that I am expecting.
But to no avail. Sigh. The book I didn’t really expect since I just ordered it. But I’ve been waiting awhile for the other items.
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I haven’t posted anything new since the first post on the Kinoki pads. I thought I’d give you a quick update.
I did receive an email from them on January 22 telling me that due to a large amount of orders they are behind in shipping out the product. Here is the content to that email:
Dear Customer,
Thank you for your recent order of the Kinoki Detox Foot Pads.
Due to huge demand for this product we are experiencing a slight shipping delay. Your order will be shipped within the next 10-15 business days.
Sincerely,
Customer Service
Kinoki Detox
Well, I can understand that this could happen.
As of February 1, 2008, I am still awaiting my order.
I will keep you posted.
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There was allot of snow that fell yesterday. And then it stopped. My wife and I were suprised when we woke up this morning and there was a huge amount of new snow on the ground… and it was still snowing!
I helped my wife dig the car out of the snow. Unlike most of our neighbors we don’t have a garage.
Suprisingly for me, the “L” was actually running more efficiently today that it has been running of late!
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I started doing some investigating on what I would like as far as my site’s appearance. This is not going to be something that changes over night. More and more I’m realizing that to capture what I’m looking for is going to take a lot of thought, research, and testing. Ah well.
One of the ideas floating around in my mind is having videos on every page that are ambient. That is stuff automatically playing when the page comes up, little or no sound, and displaying in a subtle way that contributes to the “feeling” I’m trying to capture.
I did a first experiment here and found as I suspected, that the flash video player I used is an actual “window” as far as Microsoft architecture goes. What that means is that I cannot overlap it with a layer… i.e. DIV tags, etc. This rules out allot of concepts (unless I learned to use Flash).
There is still allot to look into. Allot about using color, layout, etc.
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In the latest iteration of the look of Chomer.com and it’s blog, I was pretty satisfied. Now I feel a subtle discontent that is steadily growing. For one thing, the blog doesn’t render perfectly (I need to delve deeper into the CSS HTML machinations of WordPress). Even if I did get that straightened out, it’s just not quite what I’m looking for.
For starters, I want something that has a cleaner look. A bit more professional. But I also want it to be beautiful. A site that if someone appreciates beauty, they will come to the site just to look at it regardless of the content. I know, that sounds crazy, but I want something that I would just want to look at. A web site that is Art. Something you might think about putting in an art museum.
Of course that doesn’t mean that I don’t want to have content, and good content at that, but I want to strike that perfect blend of beauty and content.
It would be nice if the site layout/look were COMPLETELY separate from the content. Not just as far as files i.e. CSS, but something more dynamic, something where I can change the look on the fly and see what it will look like before I apply it. No, I’m not talking about canned blog Themes.
In the past I’ve kind of done a random, gut feel build-as-I-go type of design. I’m planning on doing some more thorough research on this subject. I do what to look at allot of blog themes, and allot of different web sites to see their page layouts/styles. I want to note down the ones that I find appealing.
There is a need to focus in on color. I am striving for a calm, relaxed, sort of zen feeling to the site.
Some of the ideas I want to do I’ve not seen anywhere. Many of these ideas I’ve partially proved as technically feasible. What I DON’T want to do is take a great idea and implement it in a sloppy manner.
Allot of thought needs to go into how the navigation works on the site. How the pages are laid out.
I’m also thinking about using my Renegade web framework on my own site. This would give it some credibility as well as improve the overall user experience on Chomer.com.
Do you have any ideas, do you know of any examples I might like? Point them out to me. Any constructive criticism is greatly appreciated.
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Robert Scoble did a post today addressing what to do if you lost your job in the 2008 recession. I think allot of these tips are very good. When going over them I thought how many of these could apply even if you still have your job! I mean, it couldn’t hurt to position oneself better career-wise.
The advice about working on one’s blog posting items in their area of expertise. Posting a video a day to You-Tube, again, covering something in their area of expertise. This has set me to thinking about this blog, what I can post here that would be useful, as well has posting one short video a day on You-Tube, again, on some short subject that I really have a handle on.
Just zeroing in on this is a great idea for those of us who still have jobs. I tend to have grand ideas for my web site/blog. I don’t want to throw away those ideas… but I need to think about giving my readers/viewers useful stuff in the near-term that will ultimately better position myself and my career.
So what do you think? Do you have any other ideas?
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The way things were going, I emotionally wondered if I’d ever get this thing done! But it’s here! A tutorial on how to get the video out of your Canon HG10 video camera into Windows Movie Maker. Please check it out, especially if you own this cool camera!
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Well, I spent several hours working on that tutorial I keep talking about. Time flew fast. I said I was 90% done didn’t I… I think I was wrong!
I did alot of work on the tutorial last night… we’re up to 14 steps. Don’t worry! I am doing one step per page and I’m breaking the process down into very small steps that are easy to digest. So, there are alot of pages. There are alot of screen shots. There are two completed videos that are embedded into the tutorial.
There is one video that has been mostly edited but needs some music I think added to it and some titles. This mostly finished video is pretty short and shows taking the AVI file created via the whole process shown and importing it into Windows Moviemaker.
As far as the actual pages of the tutorial (there are 15 so far … if you include the introduction) go, I am at the point of describing the settings that need to be made when the user is ready to save that AVI file.
Let me see… how many pages left… maybe?
That is six new pages that I still have to make yet… whew! In addition I want to create the navigation link thing to add to each of these pages to make it easy to navigate around in this tutorial, so,….. I have some work to do still!
I’m revising the completion amount to 75%. Hopefully this is more realistic. I plan on working on it tonight again.
Cheers!