Joshuaink: So, what's a nice geek like you doing at a blog like this?

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So, what's a nice geek like you doing at a blog like this?

Wednesday January 5, 2005

Part of the plan for the re-design is to get the Elsewhere section into better shape and that will include blogs that I read.

I think I do actually read most of the blogs of the people who comment here regularly but still, this is my plan/request, if you are a regular or irregular reader of this site, tell me about yourself.

I guess what I am looking for is your blog/web address, the country you come from and what the main focus of your blog is. For example, I might write:

John Oxton, 32 year old CSS designer (whatever the hell one of those is!) based in the Cotswolds (United Kingdom). My blog is mostly bullshit with the occasional design note.

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Craig

1641 days ago

Craig Erskine, 30 year old web developer based in Green Bay, WI (USA). My site is slowly turning into a web design business site. Soon I hope to add my personal blog to qrayg.com
Ian

1641 days ago

Ha. Everyone knows blogging is the gateway to pure evil.

Anyways…

Ian Main, 22, web designer of…web…designs. Located in Canberra, Australia. Enjoys watching people enjoy long walks along the beach.
Darren

1641 days ago

Darren Wood, 24, Auckland New Zealand.
http://dontcom.com (currenly being upgraded to wordpress1.5 – so its a little shakey) I’m a web geek. mainly front-end code but a can mangle any PHP you give me. dontcom.com is geek/personal.
Schultzy

1641 days ago

Jonathan schultz 15 derbyshire uk.
www.pastymuncher.com just a site for friends realy as im still learning webdesign

and
www.pastymuncher.com/schultzy

I mainly like to concentrate on good code that is meaningfull and accessible and valid
Matthew

1641 days ago

Matthew Campagna, 26, freelance CSS web designer, newspaper journalist, photographer, off-and-on ESL teacher, located in the United States at the moment, but that’s likely the change in the next year or two. My blog is mostly photography with occasional bullshit.
Rob Mientjes

1641 days ago

Okay, so you know me and all, but let’s do this! :P

The name’s Rob Mientjes, I’m a whopping 16 years old. I’m a young web developer and graphics designer from the Netherlands, and my blog, located at zooibaai.nl, is stacked with nonsense and the odd design-related post.
Switch

1641 days ago

Bond, 16 years old and from the Netherlands. Have no profession, dreams or interesting hobbys, I’m just boring and that of the main reasons I never post comments to the blogs I read. Don’t ask me why I started a weblog, I can’t design and have no topic to talk about.

Anyway, have fun, you website looks good but the redesign would obviously look better.

Oh, my blog is about nothing and was just a stupid experiment. The language is Dutch so you won’t be able to read it, hah!
JD

1641 days ago

JD Huntington, 21, web designer for a small design shop and a fulltime computer science student to boot.

http://fishbulb.info is where I do most of my stuff, but I’ve been focusing on getting a nifty TXP design in place, so the place has been a bit stagnant lately.

Love the site, especially your “live build of textpattern” series. Keep up the good work.
teli

1641 days ago

So you want to know who your readership is eh?

Name: Teli (yes, it’s short for something – Telian)
Age: twenty someodd years old
Occupation: semi-geek (web designer)
Known for: being “unique in my own way”
Location: The Red Planet (aka somewhere in South FL, USA)
Ma Blog: Rants, raves, BS, and other things – every once in a while I post on what bit of geek knowledge I have or come across.

Can’t wait to see how your design transformation turns out :D
Andrew Hume

1641 days ago

Hi John,

Andrew Hume/25/London/UK/

Musician and (tentatively) web developer. Sometimes people give me money to build sites: it’s all terribly exciting.

My blog (brand new, thanks for the link yesterday, brand new matching gravatar to come): CSS, typography, the usual suspects… no doubt with some healthy cow poo thrown in.

I also founded and wrote UsableType
Shawn Grimes

1641 days ago

Shawn Grimes, 27, resides in Springfield Missouri. Is a vector editor for a neon sign company and Graphic Design student. http://hexfactor.com is where his blog is found and it contains not so deep thoughts. ;)
Malarkey

1641 days ago

Hi, my name is Malarkey and I am 23 years old and live in America with Britney Spears.

I am 6’3”, dark and people say I look a little like a younger George Clooney.

In my spare time I like wind-surfing, playing pro-basketball and playing my genuine Jimi Hendrix Fender Stratocaster.

Anything else you would like to know?
Jeff Croft

1641 days ago

Jeff Croft, 28 year old web designer from Kansas City, USA. Primarly a front-end designer, speciallizing in XHTML, CSS, graphic design, and typography. Personal web site, jeffcroft.com, ecompasses a blog about various topics including web design, and a terribly out of date portfolio.
Eric

1641 days ago

Eric Irvine, 18 year old student and hobby website designer from Ontario Canada. My blog is just random junk that I feel like saying and is going to be overhauled in the near future (I’m perfecting my CSS skills at the moment).

I’m a new subscriber.
Cody Lindley

1641 days ago

Cody Lindley, 28, boise, idaho, same story different verse.

Yes, CSS, client side web geek and closet designer. Occasional Sprinklings of PHP.

Ta dow!
RAMON

1641 days ago

Andrew Creek

Work at an agency doin print and web. On my “blog” I curse A LOT! Because my mind is weak and I dont have time to express my feelings of discontent creatively.
David

1641 days ago

I’m David Hay, a UK (Sussex) student with a sideline in web design that’s just getting off the ground.

I post religiously to my blog every day, thus explaining why some posts are the odd gem in between ramblings rather than the other way around. Blog is about anything, pretty much, although I do prefer to talk about technology than myself.
Anton

1641 days ago

Anton here. Doing the 3rd-person thing:
A mid-thirties creative professional who works under the radar as a rich-media developer for a very large insurance company. Anton resides in central Illinois (around a lot of corn) where he raises his two beautiful children (one of whom is disabled).
He draws, he writes, he plays guitar, he enjoys gaming, is not afraid of doing laundry, dishes, or the kitchen, and he also becomes bored easily with things that do not challenge him.

Booya.

Maybe I should work on my site a bit. Shall we race to the finish?
Jeff Smith

1641 days ago

Jeff Smith, 23, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada.

Web/UI/Graphic designer/developer for a small firm in Edmonton, Alberta. Personal site: http://fromaway.jeffsmithdesigns.com, mainly just a blog with a few entries every now and again regarding web design. Portfolio site: http://www.jeffsmithdesigns.com/index.php.
Jenny

1641 days ago

very cool. redesign is always good!
Derek Featherstone

1641 days ago

/feather/tags/
/Derek Featherstone
/33
/male
/married
/three children
/Ottawa
/Canada
/boxofchocolates.ca
Zara

1641 days ago

24 year old creative-type person currently going to advertising school and interning at a small web design agency in Minneapolis, MN (USA). I pretty much just write about what’s going on in my life on my site (www.muddled.org). Nothing too interesting :)
Turnip

1641 days ago

I’m Jon/Jonathan/Turnip/him, a 15 year old would-like-to-call-self-web-dev-but-doesnt-feel-experienced-enough. I live in Reading in the UK. My blog is mainly stuff I like to talk about.
Joen

1641 days ago

John Asmussen, 25 year old graphic designer / tree hugger based in Copenhagen Denmark. I use my blog for venting, discussing and annotating things I might want to remember one day.
Pete

1641 days ago

Peter Costello
A 29 year old Web designer based in Sydney Australia. Relocating to UK in 2 months and starting to freakout.

domestik.net , my personal site is constantly being re-worked live, subject is primarily design although I’m currently trying to run my portfolio through movable type so all the more recent entries are folio work.

Sometimes, when I’m not working I like to eat butter.
Kevin Evans

1641 days ago

I’m Kevin Evans, an IS Development Manager (what’s one of them?) from Wales. My blog is mainly for fmaily to keep in touch, but includes a fair amount of geekery.
jolo

1641 days ago

Jolo 19
I’m a Graphics Designer and a frustrated Visionary Director hailing from Phils. My blog is concern about diff. design spectrum, activities in life, and some non-sense stuff. :)

I’m happy coz’ I met a lot of diff. people. So nice.
Nathan Pitman

1641 days ago

Nathan Pitman, 27 year old new media designer/developer based in Berkshire (United Kingdom). My blog is also mostly bullshit with the occasional insightful post. ;)
kogakure

1640 days ago

Stefan Imhoff, 26 years, from Germany. Oftentimes web designer, somethimes 3d-designer.
My blog is in german language and mostly of everyday stuff from the net and martial art. Maybe it will someday become english ;-)
Hayo

1640 days ago

Hayo Bethlehem, 22 year old new media designer (blah.blah.)/webdesigner based in the Netherlands. Also photographer for local media. I have a personal website. Not a weblog.
Veerle Pieters

1640 days ago

Hi, I’ll start by being what seems like the oldest and only female here :-) I’m 36 and run my own design shop since 1992. Been blogging for a year now and most of the time I rumble about design, music, Ibiza etc ;-)
Peter J.Lambert

1640 days ago

Peter J.Lambert, thankyou very much.

I’m a web designer/developer in York, UK.

My blog (http://pixelicious.co.uk) is mostly just an irregular brain dump of what’s going on in my life. I don’t talk about work much.

It’s in the middle of a change to Textpattern (from Wordpress) including a redesign, so let me know if you find anything majorly wrong.
Martin

1640 days ago

Martin Smith, I live in East Yorkshire UK.
By day I am a repressed HTML monkey and by night I stroke my XHTML/CSS creations and long for better days.
I have no idea where the hell Martagnan is going but I really should spend more time with it.
One day I hope to move back to that beautiful province that is Manchester.
Tom

1640 days ago

Tom Wright, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK. 30. Job description unknown. Ritualistic river surfer. Occassional blog on web and random ramblings.
isil flynn

1640 days ago

Hi – guess this makes me the 2nd female here. Isil Flynn from Saint John, NB Canada. I work at the University of New Brunswick as the web manager and assistant director of our web team. My blog is kind of a mish-mash of stuff, thoughts, musings, stuff that catches my interest, links to technical stuff etc. I just started it last April as a way to boost my creative process during some downtime. FWIW it’s at http://webteam.unb.ca/isil/elink/
Denis Radenkovic

1640 days ago

/ Denis Radenkovic
/ Married ! :)
/ 27
/ from Belgrade, Serbia
/ based in the Cotswolds (United Kingdom)
/ got slightly fed up of interior design and started doing some web and graphic design
/ my blog is mostly what I wish I had come up with first, :)
/
Rob

1640 days ago

Im rob

22 student in my last year at Brighton
doing my dissertation on web standards

Originally from Oxford (home home)
Tim

1640 days ago

Tim / 29 / Married+baby due / Bath / UK / ColdFusion/Perl/PHP{hacking}/Java{learning}/(X)HTML/CSS / Publishing Arm Of Learned Society
Anton

1640 days ago

sidenote: this has got to be the greatest collection of gravatars that I’ve seen in one place. Not the most, mind you – but the best looking by far.
Kev

1640 days ago

Kevin Leitch, 35 web designer in the UK. Married with 2 soon to be 3 kids. My blog is about web design topics and autism as my daughter is severely autistic.
Rob Sable

1640 days ago

Rob Sable, 28, Ohio USA. Java developer by day, custom webapp developer/web designer/gigilo by night.

wilshireone.com is mostly about textpattern, web development and other geekery at the moment.
Patrick Bennett

1640 days ago

Patrick Bennett, 29, New York, NY. Basically, a multi-discipline visual artist who lately finds himself doing an enormous amount of front end and conceptual online work for R/GA. My site (PB Graphic Design, NY) is more of a business destination than a blog.
Toby S.

1640 days ago

Toby Steward, 18, another English Web Designer (Manchester), aspiring businessman, standards follower, new blogger (antimatter), textpattern worshipper, college student, rugby player, squash player, internet nut, seeks 18-25 yo woman with a passion for hot engines.
Angad

1640 days ago

Angad, 18, Engineering Student.
Two words: Procrastination personified.
Tom Werner

1640 days ago

Tom Werner, 25, Print and web design. I live in Oceanside, California (north of San Diego about 30 miles) and work for myself. I haven’t written a blog entry on mojombo.com for about a million years, and by now probably 80% of the comments are from enthusiastic male enhancement product users (damn you MT 2.6 for making it so hard to delete comments!).

Also, I invented Gravatars and WAC-FR (the partial inspiration for SIFR). I like mountain biking, snowboarding, and rock climbing. Also, eating pizza is nice.
Adam Bardsley

1640 days ago

I’m 25, a Web and IT administrator for a student union in Lancaster, UK (but that doesn’t make me a student!)

My blog is about life, tech and philosophy, although it’s a bit new right now and kind of more a learning experience around textpattern and new CSS techniques. I think I’m going to review my toys when I buy them as well.

Looks like you have a very long reading list now John ;)
Richard@Home

1640 days ago

Richard Allsebrook, 36, Sheffield, UK. Currently senior applications and web developer for a UK application service provider. I’m a geek with a badge! :-D

http://richardathome.no-ip.com
Barry

1639 days ago

Barry, 32, Kent (Garden of England), finance, ex-astrophysicist, always busy, always reading.
Andy Mac

1639 days ago

Andy McCulloch, 34 from London. Ex network bod for a government dept. I bailed out of IT 1997 when I decided there was no future in this world wide web thing.

Reasonably accomplished drummer and long time bass player and now beginning to strech my legs as a part time web monkey :-)
Joshua Lopez

1639 days ago

31, Director of Willed Body Program for the University of Arizona, College of Medicine. My little blog is generally filled with complaints, questions, gripes about CSS/(x)html/standards, but mostly nonsense. Sometimes I fail to update it as regularly as I’d like to, but sometimes I just don’t have anything to say either.
Ray

1639 days ago

I’m Ray Williams, a 25 year-old government contractor / husband / father / CSS design hack. I live in Warner Robins, Georgia (about an hour and fifteen minutes south of Atlanta for those non-Americans who remember the 1996 Olympics). Mine and my wife’s website is mainly kept up to date by me, so you’ll find topics ranging from my daughter, to work, to thoughts on design, to completely random…

This is a great idea, John.
Kris Khaira

1639 days ago

Hi Josh, hope you remember me. I witnessed your site go live from a default textpattern installation to what it is now by hitting refresh. Thrilling.

Anyway – Kris Khaira, 20, Malaysia, freelance web designer. I live on an island called Penang, which was also hit by the tsunami. I usually blog about my observations of life and on web design, web standards, software and macs.
Jeff

1639 days ago

Seems I’m a bit late. Anyways:

Jeff Wheeler, 14 year old Programmer/designer in Texas. My blog is about css and programming I do for miscellaneous personal projects.
Azeem Azeez

1639 days ago

Azeem Azeez, 19 year old Web Designer based in Champaign, Illinois. My blog is about random things I go though and post some photos when I take some new ones.
Keith Bell

1638 days ago

Keith Bell, from Edinburgh, Scotland. Sometime consulting engineer, sometime independent web designer, frequent Grumpy Old Man (and here to prove that not everyone who builds web sites is under 40…)

Strive to produce accessible, standards-compliant sites (aided by a pedantic nature).

Personal site an aging joke, having been on long hiatus during my “exile” in Sweden, and my search for The Perfect Content Management System (conclusion: there ain’t no such animal). But like Fu Manchu, “The world shall hear from me again”.
Tom

1638 days ago

Hi, my name’s Tom and I’m a 17 year old student from London. Currently in my last year in Sixth Form and hopefully off to Cambridge next year to read maths.

I have only recently got into the blogging stuff on the internet and have only dabbled in web standards, but in time I will have my own blog. It will almost certainly be full of drunken stories and moaning about exams.
Elvis

1638 days ago

Hi, my name is Elvis. I used to be a really famous musician but got fed up and faked my own death. I am now living in Essex and I spend most of my time tinkering around with PC’s etc. I like your site, I like it a lot!
Narayan

1638 days ago

My name is Narayan. I’m from Chicago and live in California. My site lacks any particular focus; depending on who you ask it’s considered a political, literature, cultural, photography, or food site. I suppose the same ambiguity applies to a description of what I do for a living.
Ryan Mack

1638 days ago

Ryan Mack, 29. During the day I perform software quality assurance testing for a US tax preparation firm. In the evening, when the mood strikes me, I work on improving my blog. I don’t get to drop by as often as I’d like these days (it’s the busy season for those of us in the US tax business), but I still manage to swing by from time to time. You’ve got a fantastic blog. Always a joy to read.
Chris McLeod

1638 days ago

Chris McLeod here, 21 year-old web administrator for a multi-national oil & gas consultancy and based in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Primarily a code monkey and with a leaning towards standards compliant XHTML & CSS, I spend a lot of time fiddling with my site “behind the scenes” – when I should spend more time keeping the content up to date!

Speaking of the content, my site is an eclectic mix of personal observations, code discussion and talk about switching to a Mac on day…

When not performing not-so-amazing feats of code-fu, I spend my time running around after my 1 year-old son, Euan, trying to stop him from destroying everything in reach.
Lori

1499 days ago

I’m Lori, 38 yr. old web designer/php tweaker in oakland, ca, us. My blog is about random web and mac stuff, living with asperger’s syndrome, and other random things of interest to me. There are underactive forums, custom hangman games, and flash games to play too.

Tom

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