Michaelbox

The sand­wich is, with­out ques­tion, the best thing ever dis­cov­ered by man (suck it, peni­cillin!), and bread is the most ded­i­cated sol­dier in the sandwich’s army. Bread makes it pos­si­ble for loose meats and stray condi­ments to tran­scend their dif­fer­ences, to come together and cel­e­brate their tasti­ness in an orga­nized and mutu­ally ben­e­fi­cial fash­ion. It brings order to your fridge; with­out the bread’s stern but fair con­fines, what would keep your deli meats in line? Or your peanut but­ter and jelly? You’d have to just eat a spoon­ful of peanut but­ter and then des­per­ately chase it with a shot of jelly. You’d be pound­ing fist­fuls of var­i­ous meats into your maw and chug­ging Grey Poupon just to feel some­thing. Bread fixes all that and keeps your food safe and eas­ily trans­portable. It’s like an edi­ble enve­lope that mails food let­ters straight to your mouth.

Read more: 9 Ridicu­lous Cook­ing Myths You Prob­a­bly Believe | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_19628_9-ridiculous-cooking-myths-you-probably-believe.html

This is an evolv­ing list I’m sure, but I just wanted to get the ini­tial one out the door. Feel free to add sug­ges­tions in the comments.

• Move myself up to a more com­pet­i­tive posi­tion in rates
• Bet­ter under­stand javascript and jquery
• get my finances to a point of sta­bil­ity and being able to afford the same perks that an tra­di­tional employer offers
• Vote in the South Dakota Pri­mary Elec­tions this sum­mer, for the only can­di­date worth their weight in gold.
• Get at least three patches into the core code for WordPress
• Help make top-notch doc­u­men­ta­tion for Word­Press in their theme/plugin devel­op­ment areas of the Codex
• Help make top-notch doc­u­men­ta­tion for the Mozilla Devel­oper Network
• Locally net­work more and meet new peo­ple, both per­son­ally and professionally.
• Launch Hand.Writtentweets, my too long touted idea.
• Get this site here on an orig­i­nal design
• Drop sup­port for IE7 in my free­lance work
• Meet at least one of the Word­Press Core commiters
• Attend a big-time WordCamp

I was curi­ous to see what each cur­rent Pres­i­den­tial can­di­date used for their web­site man­age­ment and which doc­type they used. So I went on a lit­tle bit of view-source hunt­ing. Can­di­dates checked on:

• Ron Paul
• Mitt Rom­ney
• Michele Bach­mann
• Rick San­to­rum
• Jon Hunts­man
• Newt Gin­grich
• Rick Perry
• Gary John­son

Here are the results for each:

• Ron Paul: Word­Press with xhtml Strict
• Mitt Rom­ney: Dru­pal with xhtml Strict
• Michele Bach­mann: Word­Press with xhtml Transitional
• Rick San­to­rum: Dru­pal with xhtml Strict
• Jon Hunts­man: Expres­sion Engine with xhtml Strict
• Newt Gin­grich: Dru­pal with xhtml Transitional
• Rick Perry: Word­Press with html5
• Gary John­son: Word­Press with html5

Note­wor­thy spots: none of them use Joomla. Hunts­man dared to ven­ture away from the WordPress/Drupal crowd. Perry and John­son are both using both of my pre­ferred choices.

If I was vot­ing strictly based on CMS+Doctype, John­son would win hands down, with Word­Press and the html5 doc­type. How­ever, John­son is in the same posi­tion that Ron Paul was in, circa 2008. Even though, from what I’ve seen of John­son, I think he’d do a lot of good and bring a lot of san­ity back to Wash­ing­ton, when it comes down to it, my vote is going to be for Ron Paul. Too much of me agrees with what Ron Paul has been say­ing, to pass up on the chance right now.

I’d like to get some dis­cus­sion going here.

Is the web design/development indus­try boom­ing, a bit stag­nent, or hurting?

Are you fel­low web pro­fes­sion­als doing well for your­self, man­ag­ing to get by, or per­haps hurt­ing a bit, espe­cially with these tough eco­nomic times?