The font I use for my company’s logo is Nina Italics, a true type font created by Microsoft for use on handheld devices. It saves space by condensing the most characters per horizontal inch.
Last week I installed Office 2007, and by doing so, Nina Italics has been blown away. Nina? Check. Nina Bold? Yup. But no Italics or Italics bold.
Now I have the unfortunate job of figuring out which application installed it in the first place and getting it back. I’m going to guess its an old copy of Visual Studio or something. This isn’t going to be fun.
I am a software programmer by trade. As the owner of my own company, however, I wear other hats as necessary. Recently, I found myself playing the role of marketing guru and graphic artist when I placed an ad in a local niche phone directory. I don’t pretend to be an expert in this area, but here is the inspiration and thought process I went through to design the advertisement (and subsequently a logo) for my business. I hope this post will help other programmers see the process from a non-designer perspective. I have probably broken every rule in the advertising handbook, but I still say promotions was my favorite marketing class in college.
Meh. This post is almost a week late. Granted, I was on vacation last week, so I think I can use that as an excuse. What’s with hotels charging for internet access anyway? Bunch of savages.
Here’s my April 4th belated review of Groundhog Day Resolutions. It isn’t pretty. At all. I thought things looked bad at the beginning of March.
The goals
- Be fit
- The good news is the weight bench has been fixed. The bad news is I haven’t used it. With two weeks out for vacation, and the remainder of the time spent packing or unpacking from said vacations, I haven’t made the time to exercise. The ugly news is the four pounds I’ve gained by ignoring exercise and the diet.
- Goal status: Horrible.
- Write More
- Four posts total – that’s one per week.
- Goal status: Shameful.
- Remember important annual events
- There weren’t any annual events for me to remember in March. That keeps me from completely slipping into failed resolution hell.
- Goal status: Satisfactory
- Deliberate Dates
- This was the month for vacations. First, there was Cancun with The Wife. She and I left two days early for a work sponsored trip (her work). We spent time with two other couples and had a great time.
- Based on some free time I suddenly found myself with (my client decided to run out of budget), we took the kids on a spring break trip to Tampa. We got to the beach and Busch Gardens before it got cold and had a good time.
- Goal status: Satisfactory.