This is NOT a LiveJournal

Posted on 7th June, 2005 at 11:56pm by joel

No, this doesn’t mean that I am going to turn this site into a whine-fest about my [lack of] love life, job, whatever and move over to LiveJournal. However, it seems that at some point in time, every blogger does one of those “what kind of {insert random not-really-humorous category of person here} are you” posts with the cute little stupid image showing off the results. That said…

…I am apparently Andy Budd.

I’ve got a wicked awful British accent I’ve been known to bring out on occasion. Perhaps this is a sign…hey Andy, are there any jobs in Brighton for a silly American web designer with little or no blog readership?

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Life: Inverted

Posted on 1st June, 2005 at 8:07pm by joel

Life: Inverted
a not-poem

one year ago today
my life was turned
upside-down and inside-out
a conversation I will never forget

some moments
we want not to remember
they are the times of our lives
which are impossible to lay to rest

painful
depressed

healing
empowerment

—joel schou
June 1, 2005

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Explore Minnesota

Posted on 31st May, 2005 at 11:33pm by joel

Agenda for the Weekend

Yes, this is terribly off-topic and has nothing to do with the web or design or anything remotely artistic. However, after five days of traveling all across the southern half of Minnesota, something has to be said.

Without further ado, here’s a short collection of things that had to happen this weekend in more or less random order:

• See Chris and Amanda who’d flown from Germany for…
• …Matt and Laura’s wedding, in which I was a groomsman
• Deliver approximately 4000 stuffed envelopes to the mail house for a client’s mailing
• Go to Grandma and Grandpa’s farm with my brother for the holiday
• Stay out of trouble

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Welcome Swedes!

Posted on 19th May, 2005 at 10:57pm by joel

I’m a shortstat addict. I like to keep an eye on the [paltry] traffic to my site, so I routinely check my shortstats all day long. Today shortly after 4pm, a huge string of referrals from cssdesign.se showed up. A quick click later and I discovered that I’d been singled out for…well, I’m not sure. I don’t know a lick of Swedish. All I know is that my site was posted on cssdesign.se and a whole bunch of people were coming to check it out. Judging from my typical visitation (which is rather pathetic), chances are you’re one of those people. If so, welcome! I’m Joel. Someone in your country decided my site was worth seeing. I’m attempting to fulfill that. Keep reading, please.

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I’ve Been Baton’d!

Posted on 19th May, 2005 at 7:27pm by joel

I’ve been watching with amusement as the musical baton made it’s way around the “webdev geek circle” these past few days. I kept hoping that some big important guy or gal somewhere would spontaneously pass it to me, but alas, it would not happen. However, a really cool orange frog came through today. I am finally cool…at least until people see what I’m listening to…

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Portfolio Expansion II

Posted on 16th May, 2005 at 1:44pm by joel

As I mentioned two nights ago, I was going to try to add even more items to my portfolio over the weekend. Unfortunately, a friend of mine sent me a link to an incredibly addictive game last night and I wasted a few hours playing that game when I could have been working on this article (this was the only part left of the expansion. Everything else was done). Without further ado, I’d like to introduce the new subsection “ads & direct marketing”.

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