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Recently I redescovered Jason Santa Maria‘s blog. He writes about some very interesting design topics, and has a very unique blog layout. He’s a cool person, I’ve written him in the past and gotten responses. My days as a designer are, at least temporarily, over. My job these days really revolves around programming an debugging. And right now I’m doing MFC/Windows programming, so web is really not a key focus of mine. This means that Jason’s blog really doesn’t cover all that relevant material for me. ...

Today I got slammed back into doing shoulder stands at CheerGym’s practice. This is a relatively simple stunt where you take a girl throw her up in the air and catch her on your shoulders. I got to do this with my good friend Chaz, and while it didn’t really hurt, I do have some marks on my shoulders from all of her foot prints. ...

I found a new program that allows me to write to my blog from my iPhone. Okay, so nothing overly exciting, but still another cool way to use my iPhone. I have a couple of articles I have been meaning to write, so stay tuned 🙂

If your watching TV, you’ve probably seen that the Olympics are going on right now. I have been watching more than my fair share of Olympics. One constant frustration for me is the continual mention of Michael Phelps. He has done some great things, like win 8 Gold medals in a week. He is truly a phenomenal swimmer, but I don’t like him as a role model. In 2004, after the Olympics were over, Phelps was arrested for a DUI. He was sentenced to 18 months probation and instructed to give several speeches to locals schools about the negatives of driving under the influence. That was the end of it. There has been relatively no mention about Phelps’ DUI in this Olympics. Why? I would think it is because they don’t want to tarnish Michael Phelps during the games. He is supposed to be a role model, someone everyone aspires to be. How would parents feel if they knew that the person their kids were looking up to had committed a DUI? Is that the same role model? ...

John Gruber nails it: Apple’s biggest problem isn’t with its product quality (which, overall, remains very high), but with its communication to customers. If your reading this blog, you probably know that I’m a big Apple fan. I will stand up for Apple all over the place, but I have been increasingly frustrated with their communication, this needs to change.