A fantastic tool for creating CSS-driving layout from written by Dav Glass. Must bookmark.

Andrew Faulkner showcases a few accessible, beautiful web sites.

Forget Trinh Cong Son. His lyricism is still over people’s head. The more you listen to his songs, the more confuse you get. Nowadays you don’t even have to listen to a song to know what it is about. The title alone tells it all. You don’t need a GED to figure out “Toi Khoc Cho Em Ai Khoc Cho Toi.” Can you get any more straightforward than “Em Gian Doi Sao Mong Toi That Long?” And the best part about these songs is that you don’t have be a trained musician to articulate the lyrics. If a girl broke your heart, you can them. If a girl used you, took your money and left your ass, you can sing them. Lam Chan Huy is obviously an amateur (you can tell by his breath control and karaoke phrasing), yet the tastelessness in the lyrics works despite the cheap, staled and dated productions.

Jay-Z’s live video

Snapshots of my office. I am finally set up with three monitors using Matrox DualHead2Go and the Intuos3 Special Edition. Like my man Fred said, “You ordered too much shit.”

Just a few winter shots from the Beacon train station in New York I took two weeks ago.

A concept album for Lunar New Year has to capture the spirit of Vietnamese’s most celebrated holiday; the key element Quang Dung fails to deliver on his latest release titled Xuan. He sounds mechanically dull and the cheap studio productions only make it worst.

Let’s face it. Tunes that are suitable for a kid, a grown-ass man like Quang Dung shouldn’t even consider. His lame-out version of “Mua Xuan Oi” doesn’t even come close to little Xuan Mai’s. On “Cam On Mot Doa Xuan Ngoi,” he sings like he could fall asleep in any second. Gone is the charming prince who pretended to be so sincere in “Vi Do La Em.” With “Neu Xuan Nay Vang Em” he sounds like a bored married man who does what he has to do to make his wife happy even though he means the opposite of what he say. The title suggests, “If you won’t be here this spring,” but what he truly mean is “Please don’t be here this spring.”

Needless to say, Xuan is as mundane as it gets. If his sudden marriage was a big disappointment to the ladies, this album is his big disappointment to the fans.

I am listing my previous apartment in Poughkeepsie for rent on Craiglist. Spread the word if you know anyone in the area.

$896/2br – First Month Free Rent (Move In Right Away)
Kaal Rock complex’s two-bedroom apartment located two blocks from the Poughkeepsie train station and Eastman Park. Nice and quiet neighbor and close by the beautiful river. Utilities are included except for electricity. If you’re interested, come and take a look. In addition, first month rent will be free. Contact me for more information.

Address:
50 Rinaldi Blvd. Apt. 7G
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

Here are some shots of the place.

Amit Gupta:

Ask us what we’re looking for, however, and most of us won’t know. Though we can’t articulate what we want, it’s clear that we all know it when we see it. Design helps us see it.

Plenty of time my clients suddenly become art directors after they see my initial design. “I think the header should be bigger.” “I think the color should be darker.” “How about moving the image down a few inches.”

This week, I have been working like a buffalo on the rice field with the speed of a horse on the racetrack to redesign the GWSB News and as the same time to kick out the new issue on top of another site’s priority. The newsletter comes out every other week and I am responsible for putting it up, so if I keep on patching the old design with the 1990s’ codes, eventually they will come back and bite me in the ass; therefore, I went ahead and revamped everything from the ground up. The new design is much cleaner and easier to maintain. Now I can sleep.

Oh yeah, there’s a quick blurb about me in the archive.