Dylanz Net

Kite surfers catch the last of the daylight at the end of another beautiful day in the Netherlands.

• First stop, Animal House Quotes at imb.  Not for the easily offended.  But a classic nontheless.
• Then I opened up KCCN FM 100 for good tunes for my web stroll.
• Next up, a quck review of indifference curves via a Google Search…I drilled down into a few sites, but Wikipedia was the one I relied on for comprehensive information…
• And from there, I linked to LaTeX (pronunced Lay-Teck) to see how they represent math equations….surprisingly, the Wikipedia description was far more informative than the official web site. 
• Somehow–I can’t recall how–I ended up at a WordPress themed blog tracking down some informaton on LaTeX.  The blog had some interesting information, but more importantly, it had a great design.  So I had to track down the design called Notepad Chaos created by Evan Eckard for Smashing Magazine. 
• The comments in that article mentioned how Notepad Chaos looked a lot like Web Design Wall.  So I stopped over there to compare….Once at WDW, I found myself wandering down lots of Internet Rabbit Holes (IRbHs) from the links in various posts and articles. 
• The first tunnel was over to  Ma.tt where I learned how the WordPress creator spends his day.  I would love to leave my office empty for 6 days a week… 
• From one of those articles, I learned about Gravatars, images that you can use all over the Internet without having to upload new images to each and every blog, website, forum, etc, that you might visit.
• Of course, I had to visit the parent site for WordPress, Gravatar and others….and that is Automattic. Great stuff.
• And I’ll bet you didn’t know that some people intentionally remap their keyboard and type in other than QWERTY keyboards.  There is DVORAK and AZERTY…who knew?!  I had no idea. Not sure if I can switch but I’m intrigued.
• A link in one of the articles took me over to The Power of Less.  Something I could clearly spend some time reviewing!  Focus is good. I’ve already modified my computer usage to shut down Outlook when I’m trying to focus on other things.  I am going through withdrawal, but a little concentration will get me past this.  I no longer visit my Facebook page either…Less is more. More time for me.
• And while enjoying the great web designs I found, I decided to go looking for more WordPress Themes and ended up at WordPress Theme Park.  Nice.  I’m thinking of using some of these graphic ideas in a logo I’m designing.
• And without dragging you through the mud, I’ll just say that I hit about a dozen other sites related to logo design, internet design, and graphic design in general.     
• Finally, I’ll close this list with the last link I visited before heading outside to enjoy the evening by jogging through Den Haag for a couple of hours– Tim Ferris’ blog–where he talks about his 4-hour week.
• The timing of visiting that final webpage seemed appropriate as I later stood on the beach in Scheveningen, NL .  There were crowds and crowds of surfers, windsurfers, and kite surfers who had been in the water for most of the day.  Here in the NL, most businesses seem to close promptly at 5 or 6 pm and only stay open late one night a week.  Which got me to rethink the idea of working hard and working late to get more done…all I have to do now is take up kite surfing….

And with that in mind….why am I still sitting here writing this blog?  Time to go work on another project.  Signing off for now.  Peace to you and may you enjoy life.

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ylan

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