Michaelbox

This was orig­i­nally drafted in spring/summer 2010. I just never got around to post­ing it. The job men­tioned is two employ­ers ago.

Con­struct­ing an ideal cubi­cle life with things taken for granted

It is a guar­an­tee that the major­ity of soci­ety will work at least one job, in their life­time, that is far from ideal. For those less for­tu­nate, they may never escape the cycle. It is dur­ing our time stuck in jobs we don’t enjoy too much, that we are able to reflect and deter­mine what qual­i­ties and aspects that we’d like in a job to make it more enjoyable.

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I do not know exactly when it clicked in my mind or what sparked it all, but as I was sit­ting at my day job, the idea of writ­ing out tweets by hand came to me. I sat there rolling it around in my head and it came to me that peo­ple would be able to write beyond twitter’s 140 char­ac­ter limit with vari­able read­abil­ity depend­ing on clear leg­i­ble writ­ing. With the wide pro­lif­er­a­tion of cell phones con­tain­ing built in cam­eras, as well as many photo ser­vices being tied to twit­ter already, there is an extremely low entry require­ment for hand­writ­ten tweets.

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I real­ized that I will likely ref­er­ence many twit­ter peo­ple in posts and I think it is com­mon cour­tesy to link to their pro­file so that you can go check them out if you want. How­ever, I also want to be lazy and not have to type out their full twit­ter url all the time. Thus I decided that a short­code would be nice and efficient.

With the fol­low­ing code, <?php function twitter_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) { return '<a href="http://twitter.com/' . $content . '" title="' . $content . '\'s Twitter Profile">' . $content . '</a>'; } add_shortcode('twitter', 'twitter_shortcode'); ?> I can wrap a user­name in [twit­ter] [/twitter] and have it out­put the full link, like this (Twitter)

Edit

I have since real­ized that this is per­fectly capa­ble of work­ing with identi.ca as well. For word­press users of Identi.ca, copy/paste the fol­low­ing code into your functions.php file. It will work the exact same way regard­ing wrap­ping the user ID <?php function identica_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) { return '<a href="http://identi.ca/' . $content . '" title="' . $content . '\'s Identi.ca Profile">' . $content . '</a>'; } add_shortcode('identica', 'identica_shortcode'); ?>

Like so: (Identica)

I have too much free time to sit and think. I will never be able to deny that with my cur­rent job as a front desk offi­cer at a major bank. I can sit there for an entire shift and plot any­thing I want, in between the actual work. This time causes a lot of projects to be con­ceived and ideas for them to be con­sid­ered. Some projects are meant to help launch myself in this crazy graphic/web design world. Oth­ers are done because, damn it, I can! Let me tell you about some of them.

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I took down the web­site so that I could imple­ment Word­Press as my CMS, that can be claimed as done. How­ever, I missed the abil­ity to blog, so I down­loaded a theme and re-enabled everything.

How­ever, as I am a firm believer in man­ning up in your own field, and I hope that this theme is not a per­ma­nent one, and that I imple­ment my own work in the near future. I know I cer­tainly have ambi­tious and big plans for Michaelbox.net and I am still in the begin­ning of it all.

Any­ways, now I am back in some form and hope­fully you’ll hear from me a bit more often about all your favorite graphic design, web design, and free soft­ware bits.