incompetence

So here I am at work. We've been working with a vendor of ours to develop our marketing website. Well this vendor is a marketing firm that does websites. Unfortunately we don't have the time or the resources to build it ourselves, so I've been asked to help them figure out how to write html apparently. One would assume that if a given person is given detailed instructions examples and everything needed to accomplish a task that the given person could the complete the task if only they have the most basic understanding of the task and the technology used.

In the field that I am in there are many tricks that we employ to make different web browsers to behave near about the same. So naturally one would assume that if a person is in this field they would understand some of the basics of these tricks or at least know that they are there to be used. This however was not the case. It makes me wonder how many other so-called web developers who don't really know the trade. I'm not talking about the 15 year old who does websites for a couple of hundred dollars, I'm talking about the folks who still rely on Dreamweaver to make their tables for them and charge ten grand or more. Maybe thats what will in the end set myself and others apart. The sad thing is that most people won't know the difference.

As a side note I may not post for the next week as I'm not sure what my internet access will be like.

things I will have to learn

A few days ago I came across 5 mistakes of a blogger. The five points the author makes are extremely valid... However it makes one wonder if the author read his own post. Not to be a jerk or anything...

He's missing periods left and right. The last sentence is missing a word I think, does anyone happen to know what a "14 year" is? Point 2 is rather odd; maybe when he meant "simplify your navigation" was to remove it all together? With number 4: what is this blog about? I couldn't find an about section anywhere other then the little blurb at the bottom of every page that was the same. Which, I might add isn't necessarily the best thing to do, SEO wise, that is have the same content on every page.

So I have to ask just who this person is and why should I listen to what he has to say? His points are really just common sense. I guess thats what he was getting at: reinforcing things most people know.

film school

So I was stumbling along today and came across this article about film school. This of course is right up my alley, as the school I went to had a film (media arts) school in it. While they wouldn't let me in they let freshmen in... but thats another story for another time.

This lead me to think about perusing the career I've really wanted. That is to make a film. I've had a few ideas over the years and I haven't been able to settle on one. Several of them are documentaries and another is based on a video game of old. I guess the next thing is to pick one and write the story and script for it.

Needless to say I have much to do before even buying the equipment. Though the things I want/need to buy will cost upwards of $10,000 or more, so it can't hurt to start saving now. Thats all for now I'll keep this updated with what story I've decided on and how the writing is going.

BBC WTF Etc...

Per my post yesterday here is a great article from the BBC News to what I was getting at. It really makes me think if Orwell wasn't entirely off base with our language becoming extremely simplified. Though not from the government but from ourselves. It's really sad to see people in person and online who cannot construct a decent sentence. I guess thats the way of the world though...


Now for some other things. The Daily WTF had a posting today about hiring employees straight out of college. The whole story actually sounds a bit like the company I work for.

Explanation and clarification

So this is the first post of my weblog.

I'm not a fan of buzz words, therefore this "blog" will be referenced as a web-log. Since that is what the word blog comes from and makes sense. Now would we call a journal a "jlog" or something as equally stupid? No because its a fucking journal and thats it. Are we really that lazy that we can't spend the extra .002 seconds to type "we". It seems that with as much wasted and pointless ramblings that seem to plague the internet lately that we can spend the time to type and spell things correctly.