gigamatic

$60 and 3 XML books later, I'm feeling poor. But, I also got some cheapass mixable cd's, so that's good. I also got a book called "Zen Computer" so we'll see how that is.

XML and PHP seem to be the way to go (at this juncture) with gigamatic and all the plethora of other sites of mine. At least experimentally. I should be able to combine my editor pages into one, and also streamline my templates some more, which is always good.

I have the starts to a couple new designs in my head. Combinations of older ones, I think. It's so hard for me to think visually anymore, when CODE is all I do. Perhaps I should hang around with creative-types more often. I think Browning could be an excellent resource.

I also need to start sketching more. Anything, really, to get myself to realize I can do better. I used to be a talented penciller. Today, I'm not. It's funny how well I used to think in 3-dimensions. I've lost that now.

It's work. I can no longer blink things into my mind. Now it takes hours.

I can't take some wood and a saw and create a scale-model half-timbered house with compound angles and such. My brain no longer does that, and it's sad.

But, all those angles are math and applied logic, and if I was doing everything in my head (which I was) then I havent really lost that -- that's all coding is.

Now if only I could see color and 2-dimensional shapes as logic and math.