And by “design” I mean “unfinished design.” But the underlying HTML and CSS are very clean–something I’m quite proud of. I’ll be posting more about the update journey along the way.

Why update the site if it’s unfinished, you ask? Well, I had started the update on my beta site (I’ll be posting about that as well) but life got busy and I wasn’t able to invest the time I wanted. I’d since accumulated quite a few articles I’ve been wanting to share, so I thought I’d get it to a workable state and update the main site (again, why I didn’t just go ahead and post them will be made known).

Information on HTML5, CSS3 media queries, advanced WordPress usage, and more to come!

Have you ever seen the documentary Marwencol? You really should. It’s a fascinating story about a man coping and living after a traumatic experience. It will certainly make you think.

One of my favorite quotes from the movie (bold mine):

If I tell people who I am and what I’m about, I’m true to myself. That means I’m not lying to myself. What they do with it is on them. I’m not accountable for their feelings, or how they perceive it, make faces and stuff. That’s when I close in and discover who I am and that’s all part of the finding out who I am part this new life. The second life I was given.

Here’s an interesting idea for an app: ReadQuick teaches you to read articles one word at a time. It’s meant to increase your overall reading speed and comprehension. I’d be very interested to see the results from this.

Check out ReadQuick’s site or download the app (iOS only as of 2013-01-08) for more info.

(via Daring Fireball)

I’m sorry to admit I feel the same way as Thabiti on how my feelings after the Sandy Hook shooting in Newton, CT. I am, however, genuinely thankful for his honesty:

But I’ve been troubled by my own heart. I’m afraid I haven’t felt deeply enough. It’s not that I’ve been impassible, unmoved, unfeeling. It’s not that I’ve had the wrong kinds of feelings and thoughts, like the political hacks. I just don’t think I’ve felt enough. I’m afraid my emotions were too shallow and too fleeting.

His whole article is worth reading and praying over.

(via Thabiti’s blog @ TGC)

Off the heels of Thabiti Anyabwile’s article on why W.E.B. DuBois wouldn’t vote in the upcoming election, Thabiti now gives some of his reasoning for why he won’t vote.

Some excerpts that I particularly thought were interesting:

Most voters are settling.

And most of us will rationalize our settling by saying a few things to ourselves. These are the only two choices we have. Or, Voting for the lesser of two evils is an effort to stem the tide. Or, There’s one candidate that’s clearly better on the social issue(s) I care about.

Moreover, it seems to me that if we really believe the system is broken but we vote anyway, we simply nullify our contention that the system is broken. Now, we may not believe it’s “that broken,” and so we vote. Praise God. I support you if you feel that way. But if you think the farce of national democratic elections has reached an almost irretrievable state of disrepair, corrupted by big money on both sides and fundamentally manipulative and insincere in its presentation of candidates, then to vote could only end in one outcome no matter who is elected–the further entrenchment of the brokenness we decry. The vote becomes a veto. In that case, the ballot is empty and the voice is empty.

For a better picture of his reasoning, read the full article