And on the 6th day… 9/11/09
A day for poor grammatical spacing and even worse Photoshop-ing all under the oft-used Fail theme. I’m Ron Burgundy?
A Fashionable Thursday v3
Back on my game with a condensed version on purpose. Loving the responses I have received so far, from those that have mentioned anything it seems like a portion of you might be digging AFT’s. Feel free to comment, disagree or send me an email if you’ve got something to say.
In anticipation of a slight cool down over the next few days, I went casual and fall-ish. The everyday wear.
Ted Baker Depict Zip Through Jacket
This jacket looks like it might be made out of the same cotton/material that sweatpants are. For $147, I would hope not. I dig the shoulder seam and the industrial zippers. My one fear is that jackets like this have a tendency to bunch up around the middle creating a nice little faux-belly. I don’t need any help.
Note & Point
I’ve mentioned before that one of my goals is to some day move in a direction that points me away from actual client work. I have nothing against clients – I am thankful for each and every one of you – but I’ve always got ideas and projects floating around in my head that I’d like to see come to fruition and a little less client work would be a step in creating time for those projects.
For a long time, I’ve been an Internet enthusiast and evangelist. I sing its praises, share its benefits and do my best to make a living off of it as a whole. But compared to many out there, it took me a little while to get into the whole, making friends on the Internet craze that some easily adopted. I’d never been one for chat rooms or message boards and never needed the services of any dating sites fortunately.
MySpace wasn’t my thing. Facebook even to this day isn’t either. But the one that did get me hooked was Twitter. Not knowing what to expect when I signed up, it took me a little while to get into it. I’m pretty sure I didn’t know one person using it when I signed up. But I tweeted anyways. And then I did some writing for other sites, and my byline had my twitter username (@christianross). I got some followers. And organically as I found others I wanted to follow, my count grew as well. Twitter did what I didn’t think I needed, it forged friendships with like-mindeds around the globe and fortunately in 2009 we don’t have to be ashamed of telling others we have Internet friends now. I’m not.
Enter Note & Point. Thanks to Twitter and some organic growth, one of the projects that was in my head made it to the big screen. Dave Ruiz (http://foundationsix.com | @foundationsix) is a phenomenal designer based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and one of which I would have never known with out the social networking site. Together we hatched an idea, fleshed out a great design and developed the first online gallery devoted to high-quality design work in presentation related areas (Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, etc) in less than three (3) weeks.
I might be a little biased, but I think its beautiful. Thankfully, others seem to agree. With a little love from Twitter and word of mouth, in four (4) days time we’ve been blown away at the success it has already seen:
- Almost 20,000 visitors to the site
- 57,000 page views
- Over 1,000 RSS subscribers
- Over 325 followers on Twitter
- And my personal favorite number: less than 5% of visitors using IE6
Even over a long holiday weekend, I am overwhelmed at the success we launched to. We know full well that traffic will level out but have been grateful for all the love shared across the net and for each and every visitor that has taken the time to stop by and/or follow along.
Feel free to add yourself to the list of followers by subscribing to the N&P RSS feed and/or following along on Twitter.
As excited as I am about what we’ve done already, we’ve really only scratched the surface so far. We already have plans in place to make Note & Point even more usable as well as working on ideas for some new projects.
PS. Since our projects don’t actually make money yet, we’re both still available for contract work. Hit us up if you’re ready to play: Foundationsix & Christian Ross
Lottery
I’m a little busy and not going to be able to claim on this so I thought I’d post it here for anyone else who wants to pick it up. Viva la World Cup!
CONGRATULATIONS!!
The Internet Lottery team in conjunction with South Africa 2010 Internet Lottery is proud to inform you that you have won US$ 1, 430,365.00 (One Million Four Hundred and Thirty Thousand, Three Hundred and Sixty Five United States Dollars)
WHY YOU HAVE WON?
Your E-mail address is one of 5 lucky Addresses that have won in the weekly Promotion.
HOW DID YOU WIN?
The Internet Lottery, is an Internet based Lottery, Whereby all winners are selected by internet/email server, this email server visits all Internet providers and email address around the globe, be it .com, .org, .net and all country based web abbreviations, as you have .ca in Canada and .uk in United Kingdom, AOL and hotmails. We select one million email addresses from all over the globe after which 5 email addresses become the winning e-mail address.WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?
This International Lottery was organized and sponsored by African Internet Society (AIS) to create more awareness for African internet Society and The South Africa 2010 Soccer World Cup.DETAILS ON THE WINNINGS?
Your Winning Serial Number is: ZAR/1010/ZA/2009, Batch Number: 1710/ZA/2009.
Just contact our processing agent / regional claim department below for claiming of your prize and remember to quote your Serial and Batch Number for easy processing of your prize. That’s it!Agent: Mr. Kular Christ
Tel: 00 27 71 041 9494
Email: kularchrist@kenn.zeichen.wsTo avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please contact your agent with the following details in any correspondences with our designated agents.
1 ) Full Name:
2 ) Address:
3 ) Ticket Numbers:
4 ) Batch Number:
5 ) Serial Number:
6 ) Winning Number: & The Bonus
7 ) Date of Draw:
8 ) Phone Numbers:
9 ) Fax Numbers:
10 ) Email Address:
11 ) Sex:
12 ) Age:
13 ) Occupation:You welcome by Irvin Khoza (chairman of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Local Organising Committee)
Congratulations again
And on the 6th day… 9/4/09
Possible supporting evidence for seat belts on school buses? Ouch.