Looking back to the new homepage

Jeroen Schaftenaar — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:46:36 +0000

For a while now I’ve been thinking about updating this design to give it a more web 2.0 feel. I updated the header and the footer to do exactly that. Al it is still work in progress I pushed this new design out already. This are the things that are changed:

New header/footer look & feel
Changed the width of the content to fit into a 960px grid
Reduced the size of this WordPress theme
Did some code improvement by removing not used code

Things that are still on the drawing board are:

Make this design xhtml 1.1 strict compliant
Move the graphics to sprites
Increase the speed of the site
Enable caching

That is it for the new stuff. A while back I found out about the way back machine. This website indexes(copies) websites and stores them in a huge archive. Of course I directly checked this url and since 2000 I have a presence there. Check out how my site used to look. Actually the design of the site is really nice.

I also found some really old pascal code. It is funny to see how programmers do things when they don’t know how to use arrays(this is almost 15 years back). I would store the data in a file and then would read it back line by line. I solved this issue of not having(knowing about) arrays by reading and writing in a file line by line How cool is that! Wow 15 years… A lot has happened since then:

Got several diplomas, degrees and thank you’s
Owned several cars
Spent time in Indonesia, Suriname, Singapore, Malaysia
Visited even more countries
Used up a lot of girlfriends
Had dinner over 5000 times
Went about 45000 times to the toilet

For the next 15 years. What I’ll do I don’t know, yet. Here is a Youtube video which is inspiring.

I wonder what will happen in the next 15 years(I’ll be really old then)… One thing that will happen soon is my graduating. For the rest it is up to life!

Another New Year’s resolution?

Jeroen Schaftenaar — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:10:32 +0000

After reading Sam’s inspiring blog post I had to think of my own New Year’s resolution. I will actually have to do something to keep myself on track to make this new year’s resolution. I still didn’t finish the book Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki. This book is good and when a book is really good it takes time to read it well. It’s a near 500 pages book and I am exactly on page 250 right now.

Reality Check quotes and talks a lot about other books. The book iWoz by Steve Wozniak one of the founders of Apple is one of them. This is the next book on my list I plan on reading. I just hope I can find it here in Puchong. After iWoz I will hold of on the Apple related books for a while… I might start reading some thrillers or mafioso books since reading next to being informative and fun should also fuel your imagination and business books for a big part take away a large part of that imagination.

Two days ago I released the first version of Inscorta and I plan to work on this a lot during Chinese New Year. Another New Year? Time for another New Year’s Resolution! Any suggestions for a good New Year’s resolution? Also my birthday is coming up(It’s already tomorrow) and this again is a New Year. Damn those New Year’s resolutions. Who was the idiot(I am just kidding) that had this great idea to put three New Year’s in such a short time span?

I have better things to do then to worry about New Year’s resolutions all day. I am busy with work and I cancelled my trips for this New Year’s Holiday to work on Inscorta, Launch poetsplaza.nl and write a report(which I almost forgot about) for my school.

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Looking back to the new homepage

Another New Year’s resolution?