I recently had a sad event happen where the power supply burned up for my 12" Powerbook. So, what could I do? Well, what I'm about to document here is my little journey into getting back on my feet. The reason why I did this & not simply try to buy a new power supply is that a) my wife & I are about to make an international move, so time is short where we are, b) I didn't have time to wait for a power supply, since I had some pending projects that needed to get finished & I needed to get the hard drive out, so that I could get to those projects & c) I didn't have access to another Mac to connect my Powerbook hard drive to.

So, here we go!

This is a fantastic article that will help us all to keep things in perspective. Burnout is probably the number 1 cause for people not being able to stay the course. Let's be more aware of this issue, not only for others, but for ourselves, as well!

With the death of our national leader in December 2007 and with the loss of the original YWAM IT website over a year ago, I started thinking about how I am managing the communication assets for YWAM in my country. I realized that if anything would ever happen to me, there would be no way (or an extremely difficult way) that my leaders would be able to recover a myriad of important things, like several YWAM Latvia websites, email accounts & other confidential services.

I'm subscribed to a few different graphic design blogs, & the latest series of posts has revealed something that could be quite a good little resource for those of us who are designing websites. In addition to the other very important theory points that we need to keep in mind, even for web design, there are also some points about usability, which I find vital to good web design. Check it out & let's try to improve our communication!

50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory

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