My Dad is Asian (Episode 1)
09.02.2010
Kevjumba never ceases to make me laugh. He’s one of the reasons why I feel so proud being Asian. 
In the upcoming season Amazing Race, Kevjumba and his father (portrayed in this video) will be there to compete. They represent my local area, so I’m rooting for them. BAY AREA PRIDE, YOOOOO~!!
Posted in Culture, Entertainment, General, Hodgepodge | 
Tags: asian culture, comedy, Entertainment | 
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Web Designing Ethics
09.01.2010
I realized recently (I seriously need to be more alert rather than not realizing things right away and then realize it until much later) that the only reason why I got Twitter was to subscribe to various Twitter accounts of special interests, primarily towards web designing/development, video games, and the likes. I stumbled upon this article that I should’ve written a long time ago. Sadly back then, I was a lazy-ass writer who couldn’t think of blogging something interesting other than random stuff no one is going to bother reading LOL. 
Ethics in the World of Web Design – Black, White or Shades of Grey? (Crazy Leaf Design)
The points mentioned in that article is pretty common sense to every web designer/developer (whether they work professionally or only as a hobby), but mostly pertaining towards those who are doing freelance business (or even an employee of a bigger designing firm). It touches base on plagiarism as well as going through W3C Web Standards before launching the site to the public. It’s a well worth reading, even to those who aren’t in to web designing/developing. At least people will have an idea how web designers/developers have similar ethics as every other artist of all fields (fine artist, painter, composer, performer, etc.). I guess you can say that many of us web designers are artists by nature.
It’s a short read. Go read and comment when you can. 
Yet Another Lame Non-Personal Post…
09.01.2010
I’ve done mostly improvements and updates regarding the blog. Artisteer finally took note of the major bugs on its 2.5 release and provided an upload patch to fix these bugs. At first in the beginning I thought that I did something wrong when I added new plugins that are compatible to the latest version. Sadly all the old plugins that I really enjoyed using in the previous version of WP is no longer compatible and that I have to dig on newer plugins I’m unfamiliar with that would be suitable to my needs in this new version.
A few things I added…
- Added a formspring widget, since no one really goes to my formspring anymore
- Replaced TweetMeme with the official Twitter (RT) button
- Changed the default smilies in to the ones I used before & installed Smilies Theme plugin
- Changed colors of the Contact form using the built-in CSS file by the cforms plugin
- Re-added GD Star Rating plugin. I may be doing review entries again.
I’m still playing around with the new custom menus and I finally figured out. Good thing the page order of the original pages created work now. I still need to finish the minimalistic-style default theme for my portfolio. There’s also a lot of fanart that I want to make using the mobile device wireframes that I made (and also downloaded from other artists) and display it somewhere in my blog (not going to showcase them in my portfolio if they’re not even mine). I can’t wait to design some stationery for a particular… organization… that I’m wholeheartedly part of.
Except I’ll probably going to be involved in silence because at the moment I feel alienated. I’m feeling half-and-half at the moment. I feel that it was right of me to “disappear” and go back on lurk mode, but at the same time I also feel that I was forced to leave because I’m not that favorable compared to the ones who are popular within.
Good things do come to an end, after all.
Posted in Art & Design, Epic Fail, Fandom, Site Updates, Ultimate Geekery | Tags: fandom, geekery, plug-ins, wordpress 3.0.1 | 1 Person »
No More Technical Epic Fails!
08.27.2010
… for now, that is. After going through several epic fails while rebuilding this blog, I finally decided to give it another try to have all my old entries imported. And this time, it’s no longer an epic fail.
I can’t touch these old entries anymore, before more epic fails come on my way with this blog. It’s too bad that everything, including the spam comments that Akismet captured from two months ago also got imported. Never worry, folks! I’m going to re-archive everything updated in case this site goes through another major epic fail.
Just a short, nonsense blog entry. I’m inspired to do other stuff but not inspired to write about them here…
… till later. Hahahaha!
Portfolio Site on the Way!
08.27.2010
Sometimes, it feels wonderful to get back to your own reality again.
After searching high and low for inspiration on what my portfolio site is going to be, I finally found a solution. Sort of. Actually, I’m going to start off with default themes designed for portfolios. I’m thinking of incorporating my landscape photography in here as well but I’m still trying to figure out how I’m going to do it. I’ve gotten seriously lazy with plain hand scripting due to the rapid upgrades of web development scripting that it’s hard for me to catch up with them and learn the updates. Have I gotten old-fashioned or am I losing interest in web designing/development by itself?
I’m gonna use this default theme for now. Maybe I’ll change the colors and do some other stuff with the core CSS file. I also need to create a small logo as well. Luckily this theme has a built-in feature in to the WP dashboard/admin cp that would give me the ease of customizing what I need to display my work.
First accomplishment I did for the portfolio site. I made a new favicon. LOL
[ブレットジーについての夢] Global GT & Self-Reflection?
08.26.2010
Okay, I have to be honest. I’ve been to gazillions of fandoms from anime/manga series, videogames, and even towards (Asian) pop culture/entertainment. I’ll also have to be honest that I occasionally dream about them (in which I find them eventual inspirations towards (fan)fic writing). But never have I dreamed so intense as how I’ve dreamed about Bretzie when I go to bed.
Lucky for me, I don’t get super-addicted that easily as pretty much my occupation/career heavily involves the internet LOL. But that just reminds me, I really need to get my ass down and find inspiration in how my portfolio site design is going to look like. It has to have a design that has my name all over it. Someone give me inspiration!
Posted in Bretzie, Filipino Entertainment, General | Tags: bretzie, dream, fandom, global fans, self-reflection | No One »
“All I Need is Love” – OUT NOW!!
08.24.2010
Listen up Bunnies and Bret fans! Bret’s first single All I Need is Love is now out on sale via digital download at the Star Records website. Global fans, you’ll have to use your credit card to purchase (even if it’s only around 50 cents USD) and download.
Why am I encouraging all fans to purchase and download? Because real fans don’t go the illegal way by going through file-sharing sites such as Limewire or hang out at torrent sites or even use downloader plugins to get the real song on YouTube (though the whole song isn’t out there yet, but I bet you someone is eventually going to upload it there). Plus, fans who don’t pay to support their idol are the lamest, cheapest, shameful people in the world.
Here’s your chance to show your support!
[CREDITS] Anna of the Bretzie Bunnies, who makes beautiful, sweet and seriously kick-ass Bretzie fanvids that would get your asses kicked with love~! <3 This teaser vid is going to ROCK YOUR WORLD!
Posted in Bret Jackson II, Filipino Entertainment, OPM/P-Pop | Tags: all i need is love, bret jackson | No One »
ADRIANNE MARIE is a 30-something Filipino-American dudette who digs so many things enough for her to be considered a certified nerd. She likes to read, write, play around with graphics and web designing, landscape photography, listening to music, singing and traveling. She currently lives in Northern California, USA.
This is her personal site and blog.
