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  1. Parrot Takes Flight

    Parrot is my first finished project that I am releasing out into the world. Here’s how I describe it:

    Parrot is a web app for easily recording throwaway audio clips. It was originally intended for pronunciation practice but may find other uses. It’s fun, I promise!

    I wanted to start with “something simple and fun” and got through 90% of it last summer. I got stuck on not knowing what to do for the screen. I couldn’t move on to the next project knowing that Parrot was so close to being finished, but not finished. About a month ago I got working on it again. “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%,” Rob Kalin once said. I found that to be true. But hey, now it’s finished.

    I’m really happy with it. That I finished it and that it turned out as well as it did is already enough for me. That someone else might like it or find it useful is a pleasant bonus.

    Onward!

  2. This Website Goes Live With a New Design

    I love how it turned out. The logo, the header navigation, the footer. The link decoration and link arrows. The colors. The little hand-drawn, human touches.

    There’s not much to see yet, but there are a few things. The “Me in 20 Seconds” currently stands in for a full “about me” page. There’s an updated “now” page and a complete contact page. An RSS feed is also available.