Since then I have sifted through about 10 or so backups, and piece by piece uploading everything. I even got my Semester 3 Oakley Sunglasses flash project back!!

Why are you reading this second last sentence? You should be on artXed.com go go go !!

For me 2011 is a year I won’t ever forget. I graduated from Seneca’s DMA program with honours, a month later got a paid internship, and then hired full-time. Oh yeah, I guess I might as well announce it now, when I go back to work on Monday I am a full-time employee at Baby Robot!! Not sure what my exact title is, but if I had to guess it would be Junior Developer What else what else, I’ve been moved from the alley to one of the developer pods. Even though BR (BR = BabyRobot) isn’t on the fall tour because it’s fairly new, it is one of the trendier places to work. No we don’t have a slide or beer on tap (yet), there is however wine down every Friday @ 4pm. There have been times when Carlo has told me to go get a beer, while I was going through a 122 page copy deck.. Overall the best place to start my career!

Not exactly sure what I’ll be doing on New years yet, but these things usually fall into place.. Sadly this year they fell through.. But I do have the first season of Stargate Atlantis to keep me company!

Oh and those of you wondering about artXed I am working on restoring it sometime today or tomorrow have a lot of files to disinfect still.

Until mid to late January…Have a Happy New Year!!

Nothing too radical has happened from October to now.. I was planning on going to FlashinTO for November but alas none of my other friends went so instead I prepared for the company holiday party. Never wore a bowtie or played roulette until that Thursday night..

Been keeping busy with my internship at BabyRobot. If you didn’t click that link then you wouldn’t have seen the new splash page that I got the honour to upload

Going to introduce some new items to talk about each month, like what music I’m currently listening to non-stop, and some new pictures for now..

For December I am digging the new Justice Album, I probably play it way too much. My LastFM tweet on Monday reflected that: Justice (86). Audio, Video, Disco is a lot different than Cross. Correction, it’s not a lot different, it’s like a change of genre! Although I do love it. Right now the song I have been humming is New Lands, it’s almost as if it was made to hum..

The picture that stands out the most in the past two months is something that happened on Monday. My ’99 Civic Si reached the 300,000 km mark! I was on Kipling Avenue on my way to Kipling Subway Station when I saw the kms at 299,999. Turned onto the nearest road and drove down it and half way back when it happened Pulled over, turned off the engine (the legal way), and then snapped this picture:

Great things happening in 2012! Hope everyone has a great Holiday!

Now that I’m finished DMA @ Seneca I was offered a paid internship at a downtown web design company called BabyRobot, in late September. I’ve been there for three weeks now and I am loving it! Many thanks go out to Andrew Tedford for giving me the introduction.

I’m a Junior Web Developer and for now I’m doing website maintenance, but I have used my skills to make other neat things..

I’ll be doing my best to attend any Seneca events like FlashInTO or if there’s a Ninja Pub @ York. Hope to see some familiar faces.. Not sure if there will be a FlashInTO for October because of AndroidinTO but I could be wrong hope I am wrong..

Until next month..

Here’s a screenshot of my layout:

While procrastinating earlier today I made some sadMac backgrounds. One with this url “JoeMittler.com” in the background, which I highly recommend and one without.. You can add them to your background collection by clicking this link: http://artXed.com/random/sadMac.

I did mine in illustrator, chose a Cabernet Sauvignon since most people used Merlot.

Here’s my gallery of pictures throughout the production process:

Step 1: Find an image you want to use for the custom header. It can be anything (within reason).
Step 2: Open Photoshop, MS Paint or whatever application you have available and resize the image. It should be around 720 pixels wide by 180 pixels in height (720×180). Otherwise your header image will be huge and make your blog look weird and possibly n00bish.
Step 3: This step isn’t required but highly recommended. With Photoshop still open make a smaller version of the header image maybe 200 pixels in width and the corresponding height. Save it with the same name as the image made in Step 2 but add “-thumb” before the file extension. This is so you can see the image on the Header page.
Step 4: Open FileZilla or your preferred FTP application. Log on to the zenit server and go to this path: public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/tarski3/headers. Let me break this path down. public_html is where files go that you want visitors to see. wordpress is the directory name I’m assuming you used, it may vary.. wp-content is the WordPress directory where all your content goes. Examples: themes, plugins, uploads, images, videos, etc.. themes is where your themes are located and edited. tarksi3 is the theme we installed in class, again this folder name may vary, mines tarski. headers is the folder where all the header images are stored.
Step 5: Navigate in the left area of FileZilla and locate the image(s) that you resized for your header in Step 2. Drag over or double-click to upload the image(s) to the “headers” folder.
Step 6: Login to your WordPress admin area. An example link is: http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/~dma322_111a19/wordpress/wp-admin .
Step 7: Locate the “Appearance” tab on the left and then click on “Header”. If everything went well you should see your header thumbnail. Or a broken image if you didn’t make the thumbnail.
Step 8: Click on the radio button to the left of the image thumbnail and click “Save Changes”.
Step 9: If you click the link on the top left of your blog it will bring you to the main page where you can see your stylish new custom header image!
Step 10: Pass the link to this post onto others who need help: http://wp.ly/jC.

On a side note, I find it interesting how hardly anybody has posted on their blogs this semester..