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Out with the Old
I’m preparing for what I hope will be a new phase in my life. And one of the things I need for this change is a revised online presence. I’ve experimented with various ideas and concepts. And I want to try and implement them in my life. One of the first to feel the changes,…
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Welcome to 2010. Where the Hell is My Robotic Servant?
Happy New Year to all my readers! 2009 was quite an emotional year: the first batch of my close friends got married, a death in the family, the ups and downs of dating, professional life and all that jazz. Last year I’ve felt I’ve grown like no other year. I started work in 2008. But…
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Taking a Repose
You may have noticed that my blogs seem to get shorter and shorter. As you can imagine I’m busy wrapping up things for this year. In addition to all that, I want to spend more time writing my novels and articles. Plus I need to catch up on my coding projects as well. You should…
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Hmm… The Future Feels Clean
So do you like it? The theme on the website that is. I decided to go with a variant of light greys, royal blue-purple and amber highlights. It does have a spartan, minimalistic feel but I like it. I considered rebuilding the theme as an ExtJS or jQuery UI powered on. But honestly, this works…
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A Clean Future
The future is white? Bob, the future has been white since the 60’s. – Autotainment, Big Ideas The future has been white for a long time, thanks to the likes of Stanley Kubrick and the folks at Apple. Thats why the theme I’m crafting for this website, is called “Clean Future”. I took the “Open…
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Writer’s Block – Echoes in the Endless Returns & Totally Unknown Writers Festival
Last week I mentioned that I restarted writing of my novel. Well actually I’ve restarted the writing of TWO novels. Yes, I’m writing TWO novels in tandem. And while it sounds like a bad idea, this can work since I can switch between the novels depending on the mood I’m in. If I’m in the…
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The Totally Unknown Writer’s Festival
Tonight I’ll be going to the Sixteenth Totally Unknown Writers Festival. I highly recommend it, especially if you would like to hear aspiring young and young-at-heart writers in Toronto.
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Updates – justCheckers Open for Business
An update from the justCheckers website: Cleaned Up and Open for Business 2009, November 17 – 18:02 — Dorian Pula It took a while. A much needed upgrade, some changes to bring this site back into the larger multi-site effort I’m involved and some re-integration work back into SourceForge… and justCheckers is back! Finally there…
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Excuse the Dust
I apologize again for the silence earlier this week. I meant to post a few posts earlier on, but I did not get around to it. Also you may have noticed that I’m updating this blog. In fact in general I am updating and cleaning up my “Web” presence in a big way. Hence I’m…
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Before I Lay Down My Pen and My Head
Things are going fairly smoothly for the trip. Not yet at the point at where I can say I’m packed and ready. And there remains a good chunk of work to do. However plans are proceeding forward. While I look forward to my trip, lately I’ve felt like my self-esteem has taken quite a beating.…