Enough said. I know this and you know this, but let’s just move on. I realize that my committment to the blog has a tendency to wax and wane a little, but right now it’s waxing. So I’m just going to roll with it.
A number of people have requested new or updated versions of samples. I’ll be post those and some cool new stuff in the next couple of days on the new WPF community site.
I’ll be moving to a different host this week so there may be some outtages at notstatic.com. Hopefully all goes smoothly and things will quickly be up and running again. I’ll try to keep the same rss/atom links as well, but I’m moving from Movable Type to WordPress and WordPress handles things differently.
You may have noticed another long unexplained absence of movement on notstatic.com. Woops. I’ve recently acquired the prestigious role of Mr. Mom around our house. My expecting wife has been consigned to bed rest so I’m left in charge of our 18 mo. old son (George). This is fun / time consuming / boy am I tired. With that in mind, though, I’ll try to be a little more active on the blog.
Here it is. Now that I’ve found a place to hang my online hat, I guess its time to start posting. A couple of things to kick this off:
Choosing a domain name was a difficult task. I came up with couple that I liked, but just about everything had been taken. Well, a good workaround for the domain name saturation problem is a modifier. That led to ideas like unstatic and some modified color names (like semi-orange). In the end, “not” fit the bill and led to “not static.” I’m pretty happy with it because:
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[*] First of all, static is a very cool word. It simultaneously feels kind of retro and kind of modern. Plus, not is simply the best modifier (evidence of this: opposite day, Wayne’s World).
[*] It can be shortened to “!static” which not only seems to give it a cultural twist (denoting emphasis—like “static! woohoo!”), but is also just geeky enough to make me feel like I fit in with the other bloggerati.
[*] It’s a good description of the thing that makes interactive design interactive–the fact that it isn’t static, and design is among the things that I’m most interested in discussing here
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I know something about neglect. My first car was a 1969 VW Beetle named Shazam. I bent Shazam’s front axel going down any icy hill while home from school for Christmas. I got the car home with the steering wheel cranked all the way to the right (taking only left turns) and took the bus back to school with the intention of returning in the spring. Unfortunately a ticket went unnoticed and Shazam was towed a few weeks later to make way for a snow plough. That was the last I heard from Shazam who probably eventually found a new home in the open arms of a police auction attendee. I can only hope he still feels loved.
Well, this blog is not Shazam. I’m committed to keeping all parts in good working order, never neglected.
