After a couple of weeks of digging out old work archives, reinstalling 10-year old apps, and finding representative comps, the Portfolio is finally up for you review and ridicule. Yeah, this was uncomfortable for me. You can tell.

This isn’t quite my complete body of work. But I believe the collection is a reasonable enough representation of the kind of design work I’ve been doing for the last couple of decades or so.

I’m not all that happy with the pixelated text in some of the internal systems featured, but the differences in the initial design and the final product were so significant in most cases that putting on the initial comps just wouldn’t do. I may still take out those entries altogether. Yes, it’s a work in progress. You can tell that, too.

I’ll be putting up more of my print work in due course. My earlier web work, though, you couldn’t pay me enough to make me own up to.

Caught The Dark Knight premiere the other night. Free nachos and beer! The movie rocked before it began. Also meant I’d forever associate nacho/beer breath with this particular flick which, you know, no movie really deserves (except maybe Old School).

As previously tweeted, Heath Ledger was phenomenal — when he wasn’t channeling Harry Solomon from 3rd Rock from the Sun. I couldn’t completely immerse myself in his maniacal take when I kept expecting a message from The Big Giant Head.

Awesome movie, not hugely enjoyable (and I love dark). Iron Man won this round.

The Moo MiniCards are in! Based on the excellent Dawn M’s equally excellent Moo MiniCard templates, a gift for the Missus featuring the three little ones.

Had to pick up a prepaid SIM card the other day (long story) and found a great deal for the price of a decent load. For about €15 on top of the cost of the SIM card, they throw in a Samsung C180 along with the equivalent minutes. Nothing special, I realize, but I can’t get over this phone.

Last time I did this a little over a year back, I got a clunky Nokia 2600 that must have been thrice the thickness and the weight. Granted, this C180 doesn’t do much more than that old Nokia, but do you see how thin this thing is? Blown away.

Oh, and the dude behind the counter kept trying to sell me on a deal that would knock some €18 or so off the total price if I traded in my old phone. He couldn’t understand why I was passing it up.

Until I had to take a call.

As geeks the world over slowly recover from the lingering effects of the Jobs Reality Distortion Field, I imagine more than a few are going, “Uh, that’s it?”

The keynote itself was something of a let down. No new, non-wussy (as opposed to the Mac Mini), non-sissy (as opposed to the iMac) mid-range desktop, no MacBook EEE, no “one more thing”. I mean, really, after he pulled that stunt and introduced the I-still-want-one-btw G4 Cube back in 2000, he set a bar of expectation he’s not likely to clear or live down any time soon (although he did come close last year).

But it’s the iPhone 3G that’s really got me going, “Ooh, bulk delete. Big. Whoop.” Keep reading »