094 - BenjaminWood.Net Newly Updated!

In between all the pain of recovering, drastically rearranged sleep schedule, and trying to stay comfortable, I have been able to update my website (www.benjaminwood.net). I had the idea over a year ago, what took so long was finding a reasonable design for the portfolio, as well as filling that portfolio.

It's become very tricky to make a personal website these days. Thanks to all the features of Youtube, Myspace, Twitter, and Facebook - and to a lesser extent delicious, reddit, linkedin, and dozens of other sites - there isn't a whole lot to do yourself. I guess, the ultimate would be to combine all these social networks into a coherent, useful site. But I'm sure such a feature already exists.

Part of this design was to change around this blog so that it fits better with the site as a whole. I did what I could, but I'm afraid any more changed would cause the template to explode!

So, I'll see what I can end up adding to the site. I imagine, however, that 99% of additions will be though the blog, twitter, and Flickr. I did make it easy to change the pictures throughout, so hopefully I'll change them and you'll be surprised!

093 - Revovery leads to... being productive?

I attended one class this week - the first class of the semester, as it turned out. And it was a busy one. It's almost overwhelming how much work there will be to do before April rolls around. But once it does, the question becomes, what to do then? Fortunately, I have well over a hundred days to figure that one out.

I did make a logo, though




I had surgery on Tuesday. Talk about a strange experience... One minute you're playing with the heart rate monitor in the operating room, trying to lower your heart-rate, the next a man walks in and plays with the IV unit... and the next you're struggling to make out one of any of the several clocks that adorn the recovery room. And your throat is beyond dry. And it hurts to move.

Then when you make it home, it's as if very little has even happened. "the pain's not too bad," you say, "it's been worse before!" And then you wake up the next day.

Pain killers have been a good friend ever since. But not one with whom I can laugh. That hurts too much.

And without the ability to do much, have I been watching movies or playing games? NO! I don't know where the time has gone, but I did make a logo!



And I gave CFFN Radio a bit of a new polish. The site needed it, and I don't know that I'm completely satisfied with it... but the organization's main website needs to be reworked. So there's opportunity there as well.

So to everyone who has enquired about my condition, I'm doing well. In some pain, and probably not yet ready to go out, even to check the mail... but I'm taking the opportunity to do a bunch of little things on my "to do" list. Like make logos.

039 - Doubleyou doubleyou doubleyou dot

Yesterday, I was just abuzz with energy, so I began work on my website, for the first time in about two years. And surprisingly, I'm almost done! Hopefully I'll get enough work done on it this weekend so that it can go up. The image is just a snippit of what'll be shown on the site.

And the Sens aren't in the playoffs anymore! I was looking forward to working on those dead nights where the entire city is collectively focused on televisions big and small not in the store. Oh well, what's that great Ottawan saying? "There's always next year"?