I am printing out that "50 Ways" article. It is really useful to see what other designers that are years into the business have learned from the experience and from the design industry as a whole. This summer, I am going to really look at "minding my own business" and really getting my own newbie design studio in order. I want to get back to basics with my work and try to get down a "10 points" process (or so) that I will design by from now on... I know that sounds anal but one of the things that I hate the most about doing design work right now is the fact that I dont really have MY process down to a science right now....I just seem to be using bits and pieces of things that have worked for me in the past. I mean, as a designer (of any kind, really) there are certain things that you do EVERY SINGLE TIME. And for some reason, EVERY SINGLE TIME I have to think up the whole process all over again....from contracts to completion and it sucks. More to come on this topic folks...I am sure of it.

Earlier this month, I blogged about a special little ditty of a site that helps "myspalkers" out by giving you the marital status of myspace users. Well, the download squad now reports that the service offered by SingleStat.us has been shut down by News Corp., MySpace's parent company. Sorry myspalkers....looks like you were foiled again.....damn those pesky parents!! LOL

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. Confused? Eyes hurting? so were mine, but I found this little internet surfing tidbit to be quite interesting. Want to know more about its origin and additional information (hopefully true) about its creation? Click here.

I am burning ya'll.... Well, Ok, not literally but I am offically fed and burned. My new FeedBurner feed address is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AWholeLottaYadda. Lets see how this goes.......

Pilot 06/08/06 - Season 1

Nina and her husband held a party at their house for friends and neighbors. They passed around a lottery pot where people were encouraged to put in a dollar for that night's lottery. Nina was surprised to hear that her old boyfriend, Cameron, and his wife were moving for Cameron's job. Meanwhile, she was shocked that she had to hear it from partygoers and not from Cameron himself.

Songs/Artist Websites from the first episode http://www.sambisbee.com http://www.emilianatorrini.com/ http://www.johnbutlertrio.com/ http://www.butterflyboucher.com/ http://www.aqualung.com/ http://www.expressyourself.net/ http://www.we3kings.com/

As if there were not ALREADY a billion reasons not to start a myspace page (does immaturity, peer pressure and just plain old stupidity count?), now myspace lovers and what I have coined as "myspaalkers," (mysapce+stalker=myspalker) have a whole new way to check up on their favorite imaginary loved ones.....SingleStat.us is a new website that promises to offer you a way to check up on the relationship status of the person you obsessively stalk,...uhm...I mean are interested in, based on their myspace page. The Download Squad reports that the website, "will watch their stalkee's special someone's profile and e-mail them as soon as their status switches to Single." ***** We interrupt this blog entry for a test of the emergency GET A LIFE broadcasting system. This is only a test. If this was an actual emergency, your life would actually BE this sad that you had to watch stalk a stranger's myspace page to see if their status changes in the ridiculous hopes that they would actually want your sad ass. But since we will hope and pray that this is not the case, we will not return you to your regularly scheduled blog entry. Thank You.***** Now, I make no bones to my friends about how much I truly despise (yet have fallen victim to surveying on occasion) the whole myspace phenomenon yet, I understand why some people would be so sucked into creating tacky looking high schoolish websites in a space on the net where the average person's sole purpose is to make virtual friend and beg for even more....but wouldnt making a blog be easier? (lol lol lol)

Is it just me, or does anyone ELSE wonder why this girl cant stay in ANY of the long term relationships she seems to find herself involved in over the past 5 years? What does that say about her? What does it NOT say about her?