Comments on: Confessions of a Blogger: My Life As Though ‘Twere a Flowchart

By: Gail Alexander

Gail Alexander — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:16:00 +0000

Thanks!

By: Arachne Jericho

Arachne Jericho — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:06:03 +0000

Hi Gail! Borrow away. :)

By: Gail Alexander

Gail Alexander — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:27:17 +0000

I really enjoyed your creative idea about using a flow chart to tell us about yourself. Do you mind if I borrow the idea!? I want to try it out for fun. It reminds of the Inspiration software for visually organizing ideas.

By: Arachne Jericho

Arachne Jericho — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:15:32 +0000

Hi Trisha, ’tis indeed a neat and different way to do a blog post.

Karen, thank you! The design is by the449, some of the best and standards-compliant web designers across the world, who also tend to know how to deal with IE’s rendering oddities. Their designs are the most pleasant I’ve had the chance to tinker with, and I’ve had to tinker with some very awful things.

I imagine why more folks don’t use Simplicity is because it may sometimes require a bit of tweaking here and there. But the449 think of many things, and for example build in Gravatar support. That makes me very pleased.

Never had a theme that didn’t need some tweaking or other from me.

the449 also did up Problogger.net, and very well at that.

If you look at Fictional Derivations (in something other than IE, I’m afraid), that’s also the449’s handiwork.

Both are free themes (the only free ones from the449, indeed). I don’t yet have the spare cash to devote to a full the449 design, and Spontaneous Derivation does not yet justify one.

By: Karen Swim

Karen Swim — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:51:19 +0000

I love this post! The post matches the visual appeal of your blog (what a great design!) and I laughed as I followed your life on a flowchart. Career advice be darned, you have clearly found your niche!

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By: Trisha

Trisha — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:14:45 +0000

That’s a neat idea! I should do this someday.

By: Arachne Jericho

Arachne Jericho — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:59:36 +0000

You’ll get the hang of the web alphabet soup technologies. Practice is what really drives the principles through. That, and good books.

You’re on the road there. Someday is possible when you’re striving for it. :)

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:14:51 +0000

Somewhere this strikes my memories and rattles them up. If I were to draw a flowchart like that, it would have been similar except that the Tech part would have been replaced with “Mechanical Engineering”.

I am beginning to learn HTML, CSS, XML javascript NOW. I don’t when I will begin to get a hang of it.

Someday, I will be a good writer and a good learner…:-)

By: Arachne Jericho

Arachne Jericho — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:56:33 +0000

Thanks, Kiva. :)

I like to do odd things.

At first, the flowchart was longer, but then I realized that some events really stood out as decision points, and plenty did not.

I’m pleased that it came out as neatly as it did.