Passive Whitespace/50 Things Update
You’re all expecting a web design-based post now. Well, I’m afraid you’re not that lucky. I’ve not really got that much to say though, so I’ll flesh this post out with some more crossouts of my 50 Things haha.
Since breaking up for the summer, I’ve hardly been active on the social front. This weekend was spent coding and playing Halo 3, and I went to Matty B’s BBQ last week which has been my only contact with anybody I know outside work. Apart from bumping into a couple of friends who go to a different college and I’d not spoken to in ages on the bus home.
Unfortunately, buses aren’t the best place to have a catch-up session, especially when you’re only on said bus for 20 minutes. Alas. Anyways, you’ll be wondering what the purpose of this post is if it’s not web design.
Well, one of my closer friends has been ignoring me lately. And being ignored is a lot like passive whitespace on a web page for the following reasons:
- You can’t do jack to stop it being there, even the best designs will only minimise it.
- You don’t really want it to be there at all, you’d rather everything just fits.
- It’s main component is nothing. Just emptiness. And that sucks.
- It’s not useful like active whitespace – those points in conversations where the silence is useful, whether you’re just mulling things over or just happy in one another’s presence.
But hey, life goes on. Work is pretty good, though lack of a bass pedal for the Rock Band drum kit means everyone’s just been playing Fifa at lunch. I take the opportunity to check Facebook/forums and just generally chill out, because I suck at Fifa multiplayer haha.
So: the 50 Things update.
5. Start to learn Java.
This was fairly easy. I’ve only done the basics thus far but to be honest, picking up a new language once you know a couple isn’t too difficult. It’s mostly just about learning the syntax, and your IDE does a lot of that for you.
Am on track for 11, as long as I don’t miss one in the next week and a half.
16. Get my main PC connected to the internet.
And it is glorious. Oh how I missed having a quality computer to use.
22. Cook a meal without being asked.
I should have specified that this is for my family, not for myself. At any rate, I’ve done both: lots of crappy dinners for myself and a Vegetable Risotto for the family, which was yummy.
31 remains out of reach for the moment: am 920/1000 GS in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. 60 of the remaining points are easy to get but take a little tedium. The other 20 points could be gained in as quickly as a minute, but are for a damn-near-impossible level (Mile High Club, on Veteran difficuly. Ouch)
A tweet tomorrow and Wednesday will complete 38, thanks to the fact that they let me tweet while at work.
41. Forgive somebody.
While the injustice of what a certain someone did a while ago is evident, it’s in the past and it changed nothing. So who cares?
That makes 9/50, with a further 3 close to being done. Progress, if a tad slow for my liking. Oh, and I have ActionScript planned for this weekend. Fun times.
~ Godders.
Comments
Emad (Jul 27, 2009)
Argh!
How can people actually get every single achievement in an Xbox 360 game?!
For that reason, I now hate you.
=P
Godders (Jul 27, 2009)
Haha. Here’s how you do it:
1. Get game
2. ???
3. Profit!
Cliché, I know