thanks to dinah‘s suggestion, i wrote off an email to new riders because i had missed out on picking up a promo galley of jz’s upcoming book, taking your talent to the web. i got a cheery reply from susan nixon, the publicity manager at new riders, and got not one, but two copies in the mail today. so, i guess i have a copy to bring and show my advanced design class tomorrow. with jeff veen’s book out right now, and the upcoming books by derek and jz, new riders is building up a pretty cool web design library.
on a semi-related sxsw note, i noticed the other day that jason kottke put up a link to my site recently on his recommended reading sidebar which is accounting for about 2% of the hits on my site this month. haha, i’ve quantified “the kottke effect.” hmm, i briefly spoke w/ jason again this year in austin. um, i reintroduced myself and then drew blanks on conversation. i mean really, what are you supposed to say to someone whose site that you’ve been reading for 2 years? one day i’ll figure it out.
speaking of history, i moved all my old homepage stuff to leonardlin.com – i figured i might as well get started early before usc shut off my account for good once i get out this summer. i wonder how hard it will be for google to stop pointing to the old url? for your browsing pleasure, i also managed to dig up some really old stuff. the oldest extant index file i have from my usc account is a file called index_old.html, which has a dec 10, 1997 timestamp. it’s a loggy-linklisty type of thing. just thought some people might be amused. i have some older stuff somewhere on one of my old hard drives (predating college), but that stuff is probably too embarrassing for me to bother digging up.
ooh, while i’m on the nostalgia kick. (once you start mawkish, it just won’t stop… you gotta just let it run it’s course). i started doing logs for my classes, and my fa410 class (complete with nonworking permalinks) was the first one that tried blogger with. i guess at that time i was reading a little megnut, evhead, and onfocus having discovered “weblogs” earlier in the year. i think calamondin, peterme, and camworld were some of the first that i had encountered. ok, i think i’m pretty much done navelgazing / putting off work.