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Is it a Blog? Is it a journal? What ever it is, everyone seems to feel the need to keep one. It’s funny to watch though and see how long people stay with it. I was thinking the other day that I had been doing this for at least a year or two. Well, check the archives. It’s been a while. On occasion I go to check out my friends online “whatever these are’s” and no one is keeping thiers up to date. WTF guys. Come on Grant Jon and Kyle. Where’s the news? Mr. Nemelka is keeping his updated, why not everyone else? I don’t know, maybe it’s better not to say anything unless you really have something to say. I mean, after all you have made it this far into this post and what have you really gained from reading it. Maybe you now know the names of my friends who have sites. Maybe it’s not a complete loss.

My first magazine advertisement came out today (or at least today was the first time I got to see it.) It is available to readers of the Jan 2005 issue of Connect Magazine. It feels like the first time I redesigned a companies website and pushed it out to the live internet sometime in 1998, yet better somehow. I hope this marks the begining of a continual growth pattern. Most graphic designers are making the move from print to web. Most with much difficulty. Having learned to deal with 72 DPI and 640 x 480 resolution (remember those days?) I find it quite liberating to say “hmmmm, how high should I take the quality of this one” knowing full well that it is only going to print at 300. I think that is why established print designers have more success moving into flash than HTML. They can’t deal with all the rules. I wonder how many web designers are making the move to print like I am. Feels like driving on the wrong side of the road in England. You know you are doing it the right way but no one else can figure it out.