Starting the ‘buckle-down’ at 8pm last night.  It is now 8.30am. 12 Hours done and 12 hours left to go before the folks arrive and I can’t do any more work today. Gotta get this site done, but SO tired.  It would appear that the ‘second wind’ only comes when there’s sunshine.  Damn grumpy weather.

Maybe it’s because I’m not a coffee buff (yet), but coffee just smells infinitely better than it tastes, and the ground beans smell better before they’ve had water poured through them.  It’s odd.  I can open a packet of coffee and the smell instantly hits me in the same way that nostalgia would; less an assault on the senses than on my memory; which is odd, seeing as nobody anywhere I’ve lived has really been THAT into coffee for it to play a major part in my life.

Either way, I started drinking the stuff for real about 2 months ago- trying to see what the attraction is.  I don’t fully ‘get’ it yet, and I don’t get a coffee buzz, but I know that a year from now I’ll have associations with the taste of coffee and late night web design in a rural welsh cottage listening to cat power…

…which doesn’t sound all that bad when I say it like that.

tumblinfeminist:

“I just wanted to say to him:
If its ok for you to rape me because I was dressed like a ‘slut/skank/ho/whore’; then is it ok for me to shoot/stab/maim/kill you because you are a male who looks threatening? Aren’t you asking for it?”

Seriously you guys walking round in big drunken groups, wearing tshirts that show off your muscles that could potentially pin me to a wall, being rowdy at the back of the almost empty 10.20pm bus and making the space around you feel less safe for anyone who is not a white cis man - if I pull out a knife and stab every last one of you “I’m entitled to every inch of space around me” fuckers it’s fine because you were totally asking for it because the way you’re acting and looking fits right into my ideas of a man who could potentially damage me or other women. What do you expect walking around acting like you could hurt someone at the drop of a hat? It’s your fault, I can’t help myself when I see a potential threat, it’s just nature. If you don’t want to be stabbed for looking threatening then cover up, wear something baggy to hide your muscular body, walk around by yourself so you’re less intimidating and keep your head down when I walk past so I don’t think you’re going to target me.

In a nutshell, basically. 

(via mekarice)

Holy hell, I just counted up my open tabs & windows and I had 271 tabs open in 6 windows and chrome was just dealing with it like a boss.  I was like a kid in a sweet-shop ctrl-clicking links here-there-and-everywhere, and Chrome was just like ‘yeah, whatever’.

Ladies and Gentlemen- THIS is why I will never go back to Firefox :P

nythroughthelens:

I want to write about my own subjective experience with attempting to monetize my talents in photography and writing. It’s something I have wanted to write about for a while but the subject matter intimidated me because it’s not a success story by any stretch of the imagination and while you could argue that my story is still in the process of being written, it’s still hard to come to grips with certain financial realities especially when they are linked specifically to your own passion(s).

An excellent article came out a few days ago called: “The Facebook Illusion” by Ross Douthat, a columnist for The New York Times. It’s an opinion piece about the state of the digital landscape in the wake of Web 2.0 and lofty collective aspirations of finding ways to make “lots and lots of money on the Internet”. One of the segments from Douthat’s article that resonates deeply with my own situation is this:

“As The New Yorker’s John Cassidy pointed out in one of the more perceptive prelaunch pieces, the problem is not that Facebook doesn’t make money. It’s that it doesn’t make that much money, and doesn’t have an obvious way to make that much more of it, because (like so many online concerns) it hasn’t figured out how to effectively monetize its million upon millions of users. The result is a company that’s successful, certainly, but whose balance sheet is much less impressive than its ubiquitous online presence would suggest.

This “huge reach, limited profitability” problem is characteristic of the digital economy as a whole.”

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Some context is always good; a few years ago, I decided to go back to school to finish up a degree I was unable to finish in my early 20s due to financial limitations…

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