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It's Quite Hard to Explain

 August.20th.2006 • 10:02PM No Comments

This is the story of a two guys, a son and a dad. The son tries to tell the dad about what he does on his free time, and the dad doesn’t get it. Pretty much the story of the son’s life.

So my Dad and I were talking at WalMart the other night:

Dad: So how do you like your new job? Me: It’s great Dad, it’s really fun. Dad: So what does your company do again?

* Insert semi-blank look.

Me: You know that thing that Steffi uses called LiveJournal? Dad: Yeah. Me: Well, the company makes a competitive product, which is WordPress.

* Insert nervous smile.

Dad: Oh okay.

Ever experience this? Well, I’m sure in one way or another, a family member (whom isn’t very fluent in our industry) has asked you the question of ...

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A Bit Oversimplistic?

 August.9th.2006 • 12:34PM No Comments

This is the story of a guy and his namesake. The result of said namesake’s design turns out to be really simple, but quite effective.

(or _The Making of bryanveloso.com_)

“Boxes. Yeah, I’ll do boxes,” I said to myself yesterday. About fifteen minutes later, I had finished. Well, let me give you some background first. A lot of you know that I finally acquired my name after almost having it slip away from me at the hands of domain squatters. Needless to say, I was freakishly excited when I got it. However, all of that freakish excitement faded away after I sat down to think about what I’d do with it. So I thought, well, what do other people do ...

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