TDH: Portfolio » misc

Site Work in the Works

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:41:20 +0000

I’m sorry to yet again have to flag for some craziness here at tdhedengren.com. There’s things to be done, mostly behind the scenes at first, but then also in a more public, visual way. I might redirect traffic for some time to make sure that everything can work as it is intended, or I might just deal with it.

Upgrading tdhedengren.com to what it is intended to be is long overdue. There’s no serious portfolio here, despite me making my living designing and blogging/writing for others, and on top of that the current design is just a test run for the Notes Blog WordPress theme that I’ll be releasing whenever I get the chance. An old test run, at that.

You might say I’ve neglected this blog. Yet again. That wasn’t my intention, but as always things seem to happen. Mostly good things this time around, but being the editor of The Blog Herald and Devlounge, along with redesigning both (the latter being up, the former being previewed any day now) is taking its toll. Along with my own projects.

Anyway, I’ll write more on this in the coming hours, days, and weeks, I’m sure. Right now, I’m taking the day (having finished my freelance stuff) to get everything up and running. Hopefully it’ll mean a revamped design as well, I know what I want to do, I just have to style it accordingly. And I’ll be moving orntales.com to the fiction section previously discussed.

I’ll also make a final decision for Feeling Productive. It might not launch after all, since I think I’m taking a slightly different approach to my blogging, with the editorships and all. We’ll see, I’ll blog it, and the content will go in a productivity section here if I should decide on that route.

Stay tuned, and thank you for your patience.

Possibly Related

E-mail Issues Resolved

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:45:06 +0000

For some reason, the settings for my tdhedengren.com e-mail accounts didn’t migrate with everything else in the server move made by the good folks over at A Small Orange. Everything else did, but not these, which is weird. I heard about this just now, and have resolved the issue. Sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused, if you e-mailed me in the past 48 hours and haven’t heard back, please resend as the e-mail either have bounced back (which you probably noticed), or disappeared along the way.

Thanks for your patience.

Possibly Related

Back Online, Better Get Busy

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:47:36 +0000

Back online. I’m psyched, finally got around to nailing down the main parts of my own little network, consisting of the blog you’re reading (which is due for relaunch, I’m mentioned this before, this is just a placeholder blog, sort of), the interview blog BloggerTalks, and upcoming productivity blog Feeling Productive. If nothing else, my downtime gave me the opportunity to stock up on some posts for the upcoming launch, and get some other network stuff done.

That’ll have to wait now, though. Got a lot of catching up to do, not to mention client work. So here we go again!

Possibly Related

The Truth About the Blogging Sweatshops

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:40:04 +0000

Possibly Related

Firefox Crashed Thrice

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:41:35 +0000

Three Firefox (for Mac) crashes this morning so far. It seems to be a bug of sorts, when opening new tabs too quickly after loading a web page in a separate tab. Not acceptable, there should be an auto-report error button when Firefox crashes!

You might remember from various social notes that I switched back from Safari to Firefox due to the instability of the former… Well, with Safari 3.1 out, maybe I should give the Apple browser another go?

Possibly Related

I’m In A Group Interview About Web Design

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:07:18 +0000

I got the chance to participate in a group interview over at Vandelay Website Design, joined by several talented designers. Do check it out for some nice thoughts and styles when it comes to design work, from me and others.

Steven got one thing wrong though. I’m not an employee of Splashpress Media, I just do a lot of client work for them. Hopefully he’ll clarify that soon enough.

Possibly Related

Stuck In Work Limbo

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:17:11 +0000

I should be setting up everything in the new office today, wiring and getting stuff in place. Well, I’m not, due to a broken elevator in the building I’m moving from. That means I’ve lost today as a work day, basically, and I’m bound to loose tomorrow as well, at the very least.

That’s not good for productivity, or my economy for that matter. Better get on the phone and start harassing the building’s owner. Again and again.

It’s already having consequences, this stint. BloggerTalks is not back on track today, I don’t want to commit before I’m properly setup, and I’ll have to reschedule client work, push it forward until Wednesday, tentatively.

My March 2008 goals, however, are still working out for now. I managed to close (more or less) on of the four client designs I was about to, will write more on that one later on, and that’s nice. Another one is in the coding phase, and the other two are awaiting feedback. And I did get two new photo sets from my Japan trip up on Flickr, now just to scan through everything to see if there’s anything else I should upload, or call it quits.

Ah well. Better do what I can, and not just whine about it.

Possibly Related

Two New Photo Sets From My Trip To Japan

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:13:45 +0000

I’ve uploaded two new sets of photos from my trip to Japan: Osaka jyou and Senrioka. Check them out if you will.

Possibly Related

Back In The Land Of Kings

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:05:22 +0000

I’m sitting in the familiar chair in front of my three TFT screens, behind my desk. Back in Sweden again, after a horrible day of traveling (I won’t fly intercontinental in economy class again), and a good night’s sleep in a room beyond 5 degrees Celsius. It feels good, albeit a little weird, since I was in Japan long enough to get into an everyday routine.

I’m jetlag free at the moment, a bit tired but that’s all. Flew in the right direction this time. I do believe I will be feeling a bit funky come afternoon, so I’m glad I planned on this day to be pretty unproductive. Gonna catch up on e-mails, finish writing my freelance gigs related to my Japan visit, and install Ubuntu on my Kohjinsha UMPC that I picked up. I was originally going for the Asus Eee PC, but it was sold out everywhere, so I’ll have to wait a bit on that one. The Kohjinsha is a bit cooler though, being a 7″ ultra-mobile tablet PC, but it runs Windows Vista in Japanese, and could be a bit more responsive, so I’m gonna wipe it out. A fun little project. More on that in later posts for sure.

I’ll upload my final photos to my Flickr account as well, didn’t do that this weekend, and I’ve got a bunch from Saturday and Sunday that will go up.

By the way, you certainly know when you’re back in Sweden. Getting off the train from the airport in Copenhagen, Denmark, at Malmö Central, it’s all elbows and people trying to trample you to get either in or out. Not like in Japan, where everyone keeps their distance and got a bit more patience with these things. There you go, cultural differences yet again.

Better get started then. Hello world, from Sweden.

Possibly Related

New Japan Photos on Flickr

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:16:26 +0000

I’ve uploaded a bunch of new photos from Japan, and also reorganized a bit in my sets. Check out my Flickr page for the latest, and the Japan collection for a set list.