Welcome to the “peariblog”. I'm James Foster (pearible actual) and this is where I hope to have a few interesting things to say about design, the world we live in, and life in general (too obscure? Contact me for a prize if you get the reference without resorting to Google!).
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This question seems ubiquitous lately, and I’ve seen some really surprising answers to it. The following is my own opinion only, and serves to let you know what to expect from me, and anyone working for pearible.
Web Designers absolutely MUST know xHTML and CSS - no exceptions. Read the rest of this entry »
Recently I read an academic paper on writing processes. Overall I found the premise flawed and indulgent, but I did manage to take something away from it - there are people for whom writing itself is a transformative event. It molds their thinking as they write, sometimes changing it drastically. They think of themselves as “writers” and feel a deep need to express themselves in the written word.
I’m not one of them. Read the rest of this entry »
It would seem that there’s some sort of hole in the wordpress 2.5.1 security. I noticed some strange funkiness with the site the other day, and when I looked at the blog code, noticed a hidden little snippet that I clearly hadn’t put there. The consensus on the support forum was that sites that were compromised before upgrading were vulnerable even after moving to 2.5.1 - the only problem there was that peariblog isn’t an upgrade, it’s a fresh, clean 2.5.1 wordpress install Read the rest of this entry »
I’m essentially a very private person, which makes this whole “blogging” thing a bit of a stretch for me. I was thinking about that, and the general idea of self-disclosure this morning. What is it that makes the best music, book, blog, painting, photograph, whatever so compelling? Often, for me at least, it’s the level of (real or imagined) self disclosure from the creator. When we feel like we’re getting a glimpse of a real person - don’t we find that so much more compelling? Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve made it clear to M that I wouldn’t hesitate for a even a moment to leave her for Ingrid Michaelson - she, in turn, informed me that should Ewan McGregor ever come calling, I’m on my own.
Fair enough.