kevin barnett

After several weeks (months) of hiatus status on welshcrew.com/kevin, I have successfully completed a few transitions. I am living in a great apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and working for MLB.com at the glorious Chelsea Market. More on that to come…

In early June, I procured the domain name “kevinbarnett.com” after several months (years) of waiting. Thankfully the competition was light and that Olympic volleyball player didn’t bite. My objective now is to be the #1 result on google for “Kevin Barnett”. The volleyball player is going down like Chinatown, mark my words.

(note, I’m not going to link to any of his websites. This is war.)

Finally, after several weeks (millenia) of design and development time, I have re-launched my blog on the Wordpress platform at the advice of Cravey and Zeldman. I had been looking for a more powerful blog machine having exhausted the possibilities of Blogger. That’s behind the scenes, however and perhaps the most dramatic change is the design itself. I chose to go minimalist because I didn’t feel that I could execute a stylish design I would be happy with on this go-round.

Settling for second-best may have been the better choice, because I’m enjoying the lightweight-ness of it all and the possibility for options. I’d say the blog better reflects my life right now anyway: all facets of my life have been changed in a manner of weeks; my career is now focused on the technical vs. the design; as a resident of New York City, I am forced to “cut the fat” of my belongings and materialism and live as minimal as possible.

I have to play catch-up on some posts but I’m betting that I won’t have to cheat for a while now that I am free and clear of development on ye ol’ blog.

I was just listening to dZihan & Kamien - Smile

I am going to have to pass on pretty, anti-aliased, tricked-out, rendered in Macromedia Flash headings until the transparent background feature doesn’t render as green in Safari (Mac OS X comes first around here) - or until I redesign my blog to have a solid color background (hmm, don’t see that happening).

But I have mastered sIFR (and by mastered, I mean somehow got it to work) for another project which will be launching soon. So sIFR is nice, when it makes sense to use it.

Right now, it’s not making sense for ye ol’ blog. Still, I might have a use for it for another project I have in the works.

It’s called a photoblog. And it’s going to be very anti-climatic.

I was just listening to Placebo - Where Is My Mind