This page contains all entries posted to Manufactured Environments in August 2001.

so here i am again.

Posted by Daniel Stout on Wed 29 Aug 2001 at 12:17 AM

so here i am again. three days later. maybe i’ll make more of a point updating this thing anyway. at any rate, the website is fresh and new and certain to evolve. some of the contents are taken from previous websites i’ve done and other parts are simply new and waiting the ol’ fleshingout.

tonight my mind is on writing. more on this tomorrow.

i’ve been spending most of my time at work lately. what with the academic year starting there’s been plenty to do. it’s good to be moving to a single platform for web development at the university. we’re all using dreamweaver these days. (okay, okay, there’s a few who refuse to give up their cherished claris homepage… but they can’t be helped.) now of course there’s a spread of versions. the early adopters are on v3.0 and the neophytes are using 4.0. not much difference for the professors but some key differences for my workflow. i’ve been thinking about templates these days and better ways to implement them. i convinces the computer services folk to up my ram a good clip and now i’m sailing. my development platform at work is dreamweaver 4, homesite 4.5, photoshop 6, flash 5, freehand 9, and so on. what do you use?

i’m listening to nusrat fateh ali khan. quite good. mustt mustt. the days are flowing one over the other with great swiftness and fluidity. i’m searching for the first step of a thousand. more on this tomorrow.

good night.

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tonight i’m listening to underworld

Posted by Daniel Stout on Sat 25 Aug 2001 at 1:53 AM

tonight i’m listening to underworld — “beaucoup fish.” i’ve been spending time thinking about the future. the days are rolling into one it seems and the only stand against this kind of freefall of time is to gather up my strength and develop some goals. i’ve been sharpening the vision of three years out, five years out, ten years out. clarity in the long-range helps inform decisions of the short-term. i offered some advice to a friend who was asking for some. i said, clarify your vision in the long-term and these decisions that are bothering you in the short-term will become more clear. in addition, i added, drop these thoughts deep into your subconscious. let your mind do the work, simply. the answer is within you. it’s a matter of finding the right pathway to that answer. find quiet time. find time to sit and write down what you want to do. write out all the options. write your goals. write the possibilities. don’t allow doubt to enter your mind. find time to do this repeatedly, whether before retiring for the night or early in the morning. the extremes of the day are well suited for such pursuits.

i’m thinking of the future tonight. i’m thinking of kerouac tonight. i’m thinking of words tonight. i’m thinking of writing tonight. there are so many possibilities.

i was looking at some photos someone sent me of her child. a fresh young man of three and a half years. i’ve seen him twice. once as an infant and once at two and a half years. great promises in this child. [but will there be another? we ask]

children are a burden to some and a delight to others. i refrain from commenting on this. i do not have children, nor have any such plans in the [near] future. i see the sun setting on the horizon, thinking, what are we coming to? i read tonight about how nasa will be turning off their satellite that measures the ozone layer of the earth. it’s a billion dollar satellite that costs them $10 mil. a year to maintain. was this a decision made in the currently conservative political climate?

classes resume on monday. i’ve got a busy weekend ahead of me preparing. take care, friends. and do write.

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I’m here listening to some

Posted by Daniel Stout on Thu 23 Aug 2001 at 10:54 PM

I’m here listening to some Greg Brown thinking about the day. Work’s been pretty busy. The academic year is starting up and there’s been a lot to do. At any rate, things should quiet down again in a couple of weeks. Monday is the first day of classes. I had meetings with two professors today. That’s always a pleasure. And better yet the meetings were at their offices — it’s good to get out for a walk now and then. Life’s been good.

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this is the beginning of

Posted by Daniel Stout on Fri 17 Aug 2001 at 1:10 AM

this is the beginning of a great blog. believe me; it’s true! at any rate, feel free to check out the other pages on this site with the links above.

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hello, folks! here’s the inaugural

Posted by Daniel Stout on Fri 17 Aug 2001 at 12:42 AM

hello, folks! here’s the inaugural post to the blog page on daniel stout.(com). Perhaps you will find this amusing or just annoying. At any rate, this will be updated on a regular basis. So for the latest news from this way, come here and read. Life will not wait. I can be reached via email. That’s all for now. Take care.

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