About

About seven years ago I was telling my friend, a fellow philosophy nerd, about prejudices in the sciences. You see, while in a physics lab at the university, the professor said something to the effect of “Chemistry is just watered down physics, without us, the chemists would be lost. And don’t get me started on biologists. Psychology? That’s at the bottom. Well, except for sociology or maybe economics.” He was being facetious and enjoying it; in that world, the physicists were at the top. Did you just fall asleep? Yea, so did my friend, just finally just said “why don’t you start a blog? This is what they are for, you know.”

And so I entered the blogging world.

My web experience since is part of what fueled my preference for WordPress. Developing an online store or a content management system, with software like OSCommerce or Drupal, while helpful and rapid in getting a simple application up and running, didn’t always grant me the amount of control I wanted for my projects–which often involve custom functionality. WordPress has one thing I am least excited to write: blog looping. And with new developments in WordPress 3.0, it is also a viable CMS for larger scale operations. But most importantly, if I am writing a custom program for a store or a CMS that doesn’t require a radically different core, I can attach a lot onto WP. Mix some custom PHP, WordPress, and some dashes of JavaScript–and you can truly impress people.

Anyway….

Aside from development concerns, I am also fascinated with advances in web APIs–HTML, CSS, SVG, etc. Finding hidden or new ways of doing things is of great interest to me. (If you happen to have an idea, anything, within the boundary of pixels and web applications, send me an email or comment a post–I’d like to talk about how to make it happen.)

I also am a pilot, philosophy nerd (near-encyclopedic knowledge of post-Descartes philosophers), beer brewer, and baker.

This blog uses a lot of CSS, JavaScript + jQuery, and just a few images (2, maybe 3.) Load time is about 2-3 seconds and, if you haven’t had a chance, and are on Firefox or IE, drop a comment on one of my posts for an interesting effect.