This week saw a flurry of web dev activity as I went back to the drawing board for version 6.0 of TheScubaGeek.com. Version 5.0+ (released early summer 2009) has served me well, but admittedly I’ve had issues with the certain aspects of the layout. The page navigation on the top menu never quite vibed with me, older articles were hard to find, my content was unbalanced relative to my top-tier categories, and the ad section was rendered all but useless by Firefox’s awesome plugin Adblock Plus (which, if you don’t already have it, get it now). And don’t even get me started on the right-aligned misfire of Version 5.0 or the current left-align format of Version 5.5. I wanted the » read more «

It’s a lovable, cuddle caricature of Kirk! Inspired by events that transpired one drunken evening in NOVA, I sketched the following rough draft on a sticky note: Here’s the final version, cleaned up and colored: And the final panel showcasing the many faces of Kirk: Get Kirk Angry! as a desktop background: 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1200×800 | 1600×1200

Procrastination is like masturbation: you only screw yourself. I’ve been putting off posting version 4.0 of TheScubaGeek.com for some time. Why? Partially because I was experimenting with new layouts and blog editors, partially because I was busy busting my bum on a slew of other websites, but mostly because, quite frankly, spending more time on the less-than-speedy Honduran internet updating my blog wasn’t something that I felt too keen to do in the evenings. Just call it real-time development on island time— who wants to look at more code when there’s a sunset to watch and a ron y piña to drink? Not this beach bum.