project ~jyong - w e b l o g

I'm the new webmaster for the Architecture website.
This company called Plumb Design put together the site.. they used JSP and xml to develop the site.. so no one can take a look at what the site looks like.

Yuenlin helped me with the setting up of the website cos I really knew nothing about this stuff. After hacking through Tomcat, mySQL and etc passwords, we finally got it working. I think any of the website gurus in our undergraduate batch could have done a better job than Plumb considering how much we paid them (supposedly 'a lot').

What's to note is: I am representative of Computational Design at CMU.
The website introduces the Department in 6 sections, one of them is Computational Design. The image they used as the header, is the Warhol Gallery I designed in Art's Studio. Not bad.

(ED: The old webserver was hacked into, not surprising actually... running XP with no antivirus/firewall protection.. and the new server arrived within days of me setting up the temp one, so back to square one, install everything from scratch)

The cat is now gone.
The cat is gone because it peed on Dianne's bed, twice. It peed on Dianne's bed probably because it was locked in the room. It was locked in the room because one of May's friends was allergic to cats.

I yelled at Mary.
I yelled at Mary cos she threw the cat outdoors. She threw the cat outdoors because the cat was not well behaved and peed on Dianne's bed. It was not well behaved because of a reason we do not know. It might have been because she was mischievous, or it might have been because she was still young and hyper, or because she was buey song with something.

Anyway, within 2 hours I had probably been entered into the blacklist of a good number of girls in ACF.

Working alone for studio.
I haven't done so for quite a while, since 'Hang' 3 semesters ago. I have mixed feeling about this. On one hand i keep having jitters about not being able to churn out as much work as others. On the other hand, it's good because I'm able to manage my own time, work whenever i want (that means 3-5am), and design whatever I want. Sometimes I do long for someone to talk to, someone to bounce ideas at.

During my midsem crit, I felt like a 2nd year again. I presented my 'concept' and before I could even finish talking about stuff, a guest critic had already pin-pointed a juvenile mistake that I had made in my building composition. Not very professional of me. Must zoom out and look in from far more often.

Chicago midsem break.
Short as hell, but Di and I managed get to IL and back in 2.5 days.
Here's the breakdown of what we did in Chicago:
50% - sleep
25% - spent with Di's Aunt Esther
15% - spent with Di's friend Janice
5% - moaning about and sleeping at the Harold Washington Library Center
5% - walking around the city
Di likes the place. We'll probably go back again.

Friendster craze hits everyone.
I'm on friendster, yes. Friendster has both its fair share of advocators and detractors. I am not impressed by people who have above 100 friends. It is impossible, in my opinion to have so many friends and be able to watch out for every single one of them. I have my hands full here in Pittsburgh PA trying to take care of less than 10 friends. Of course I am drawing the line between friend and acquaitance very clearly. You have only 24 hours, friend.

What intrigues me about Friendster, however, is that it has successfully created a platform by which human relationships have been mapped out. This intricate web of connections has, with a very simple database of values, been graphically represented. What I want to see next is an non-exhaustive chart that plots out and represents every link in the Friendster database. A Web of bonds.
It's like the poster Yuenlin has of a diagram that represents the Internet. A Web of information.

Ok, back to work.
4th year is not so free after all. It's more of a what we term "own time, own target" kind of semester.