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Archive for February, 2009
Found: a ton of photos
Feb 16th
Another storage unit find: a ton of photos from old shows in Florida and beyond.
I’m working slowly to get these all scanned in a quality format, but for now here’s three previews that my friends in Die Tomorrow will appreciate (yes, guys, I will get these scanned clearly for your upcoming reunion should you want to use them).
I guess I’ve been around awhile
Feb 16th
I started what I would consider my “professional” technical career back in 1996, with my work at Mitsubishi Silicon, and then Sussex Semiconductor.
In 1997 and 1998 I began working on my own company, Flame Internet.
My non-professional career spans back to 1994, when I was using an 8088 to dial into M.I.T via my four-winds BBS system. Hello, my introduction to the Internet.
I found this article (from the Sun Herald, in FL) when I emptied my storage unit last week. While the content is quite dated, I find it interesting that I’ve been working with the Web much longer than many of my superiors throughout the years – yet, my projects, ideas and opinions often get overlooked.
Article with me in it from the Sun Herald, June 1999 - Sandra L. Nortunen
Being overlooked isn’t always the case – I’ve built a lot of stuff I’m quite proud of (and been involved in a lot of junk, as well), it’s just frustrating sometimes to feel that my experience has serious value, yet my opinions aren’t treated with the same seriousness. Maybe ten-plus years of experience isn’t enough.
I love What The Font!
Feb 16th
About a year ago, I contacted the folks over at MyFonts.com about an idea I had – Shazam (or SnapTell) for fonts.
Basically, I wanted an iPhone application that could take pictures of type in the wild (billboards, packaging, etc), load the photo into MyFonts “What The Font” server, and return the typeface name (with the hopes that a user could make a mobile purchase – sending the typeface to their desktop inbox – or, at least be able to save the new typeface name via e-mail).
Well, my contact with MyFonts.com went quite well, and I began a brief iPhone application project where I tried my best to build an app. My attempts didn’t go so well, I abandoned the project, and just hoped for the best. It seems a lot of my ideas get made by others (sometimes to the breaking of my heart), and now MyFonts.com has launched their WTF iPhone app!
This application looks stunning, and I’m just now downloading it to my iPhone. I’ll write a review and have asked my wife, Justine (a great graphic designer, and iPhone owner) to do the same.
Congratulations, MyFonts.com, you guys have done a great job!
Update:
Super iphone Blog apparently has crawled the Web and found my Web site, adding this post to their listings. Unfortunately, there seems to be some kind of translation error (also appearing on all their copied posts) – maybe that’s meant to make the content seem original? Whatever the reason, it’s a funny read.
blog scraper: fail