Jaco’s Random Writings

Big news! So I brought the portfolio back up. You’ll notice a new link in the top navigation bar called “Portfolio”. It’s the old system that I had from my old, ill-fated site design. Was really hoping that I would be able to re-instate the portfolio with the new site design. But alas, with the [...]

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Whoa! What happened to the website?
Short answer: I tore it down and set it on fire. It is gone. All that’s left are the ashes.
Long answer: I was unhappy with it. No matter what design I came up with, I disliked it strongly. And I realized that it wasn’t the designs that were particularly troubling. [...]

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Ahoy, everyone! Now, it hasn’t been that long since I lamented about not drawing anything. Well, I decided to do something about that. I sat down, plugged in my Wacom, and I drew something. Here it is:
This is the first drawing to get initialed “JV09″. This literally started as me just doing exercises drawing skeletal [...]

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So in-between my hunts for a job, I’ve been continuing my development on the portfolio management system (PMS, as I’ve come to lovingly call it). So far, I’ve gotten the installation and login squared away. The admin page has been written and I’m currently working on the page for adding new projects. Has the admin [...]

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Ahoy, folks. Hope everyone had a good winter break and whatnot. The New Year has started and a war has started just in time to see it in. But I’m not going to talk about that. Instead, I’m going to talk everything else.
So it’s no mystery that ‘08 wasn’t exactly a waltz through a rose-garden. [...]

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