trisweb.com

I was looking through my Projects folder just now and I realized that I’ve made a lot of web site designs—but mostly for myself. Here’s a quick collage I put together of 12 of the designs I’ve done since I started messing around with HTML back in the day, left-to-right earliest-to-latest.

Key:
1) Fairview Design, pretend web design company, 1998. 2) Same, 1999. 3) tris web page, the very first ~2000. 4) triswebpage v.2, ~2001. 5) triswebpage v.pi, ~2002. 6) triswebpage4, ~2002, concept. 7) trisweblog, movable type, 2002. 8.) trisweblog 2, 2003. 9) trisweb.com/trisweblog3 concept 1, 2003. 10) trisweb.com/trisweblog3 concept 2, 2003. 11) trisweb.com/trisweblog3 concept 3, 2003. 12) trisweb.com current version.

I want to write up more about each of these in a sort of history entry, tracking the history of trisweb.com. Expect that soon.

Here are some photos from the ski trip taken by my dad. I’m a bit too lazy to upload mine at the moment.

Also, take a look at the new nhsmusic.com – a site for my old high school music department. It was built from the ground up in PHP/MySQL and has some innovative features in the backend which I might explain when (or if) I have more time.

I’ve probably titled many posts by the same name, but what can I say, it’s true. I am beginning my sixth semester at UC Berkeley, which is hard for me to believe. It seems like I was a freshman not too long ago; which, when you think about it, I was. When I walk around campus now, it feels very familiar to me, and reeks of knowledge and sometimes grass clippings. Whenever I start to doubt my decision to go to Cal, it doesn’t take long for me to whack myself on the head and look at what’s on my plate to make sure it wasn’t laced with something. Seriously, this is a wonderful place of learning, and with each new class I take, I realize that I don’t know anything, and I come to enjoy filling that void a little bit more.

To give you an idea of what insights are in store for you this semester, here is a list of my classes, all of which I find interesting and enlightening in some way. I have a feeling they’ll impact the subjects of my writings over the next few months.

• ISF 60: Science, Technology, and Values in the Global Arena: Living Longer, Living Better? – Dr. Urs Cipolat


• History 181B: The History of Modern Physics – Prof. Cathryn Carson


• CS 164: Programming Languages and Compilers – Paul Hilfinger


• CS 170: Algorithms and Intractable Problems – Prof. Christos Papadimitriou and Luca Trevisan


• Music 142: Wind Ensemble – Bob Calonico

Sound interesting? It does to me. That first class is turning out to be excellent, and I already read the first book, Our Final Hour by Martin Rees. It’s a very well written piece of cautious scientific commentary—and published this century, no less. You’ll be hearing much more about that.

So that’s my piece on academia for now. I am engaged, so forgive me if I forget to write home sometimes.

Sierra-at-Tahoe for 2 days, followed by Sunday at Kirkwood. Just listen for the band.

After that, it’s back up north for more schoolin’.

Also have a couple web projects I’m waiting to unveil; nothing too impressive, but something nonetheless. More on those later. Right now, time for the looooong drive. Lates.

Driving up Thursday, skiing Friday Saturday Sunday.

Now I have to ask, could it be any more perfect?

and I don’t feel any different… (Death Cab for Cutie, New Year, something I’ll be playing at midnight).

So, everyone else has been making lists of 2004 things, but I decided to wait until it was actually the end of the year. Unfortunately the only thing I got for waiting was Cal losing the holiday bowl and the largest natural disaster in recent memory (please help). Made for an unfortunate end to an otherwise perfectly good turn ?round the sun.

I decided to just do one list this year, and I think it’s a good one. Here is my “Soundtrack for 2004,” which fits on one 80-minute CD, and pretty much expresses my musical taste for the year, if not a little bit of what the world felt like during this time. Most of these songs are new from 2004, or at least recent.

So I guess I’m trying to start a meme. I don’t really care if you follow it, but the rules are simple: 80 minutes or less.

Soundtrack for 2004

1. Death Cab for Cutie – Steadier Footing (1:47)
2. Ben Folds – Still Fighting It (4:25)
3. Pilate – Into Your Hideout (3:56)
4. Coldplay – Shiver (4:59)
5. Franz Ferdinand – 03 Take Me Out (3:57)
6. Jimmy Eat World – Polaris (4:51)
7. mae – Sun (5:08)
8. Modest Mouse – I’ve Got it All (Most) (3:08)
9. Yann Tiersen – La valse d’Amelie (version piano) (2:38)
10. Something Corporate – Me And The Moon (4:07)
11. Snow Patrol – How To Be Dead (3:23)
12. The Postal Service – Brand New Colony (4:12)
13. Alexi Murdoch – Orange Sky (6:17)
14. Iron And Wine – Passing Afternoon (4:00)
15. Josh Rouse – Women and Men (5:06)
16. James Taylor – Like Everyone She Knows (4:56)
17. Shawn Colvin – If I Were Brave (3:12)
18. Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Wicked Little Town (Tommy Gnosis Version) (3:51)
19. Death Cab for Cutie – Debate Exposes Doubt (4:36)