Alan Gutierrez

Here are the proofs for two new business cards. I’d love to get some feedback. They are important tools of the trade here in New Orleans.

The first card is for my web design business. There is a change that I’m already going to request, that rather than “Software Developer”, my title is “Software Designer”, otherwise, do you think I should add a terse list of services or not?

• Without List of Services.
• With List of Services.

For the Think New Orleans business card, I think I’ll post an entry on the Think New Orleans blog. I’d love to get your feedback on which of the two cards you think is best.

What do you think of the title “Software Designer”?

Earlier in the month, I’d noted that John Gregory wanted to take the Quarter Crawl in the direction of a cellular tour guide, event calendar. Here’s a related idea, creating museum tours as Podcasts.
Art Mobs

Art Mobs returns with a new project. Last year we hosted a gallery event at Marymount Manhattan College. Now we’re focusing our attention on the Museum of Modern Art. We’ve produced (unofficial) audio guides for MoMA, and we’re making them available as podcasts. We’d love for you to join in by sending us your own MoMA audio guides, which we’ll gladly add to our podcast feed. Why should audio guides be proprietary? Help us hack the gallery experience, help us remix MoMA!

Not quite the same idea as cellular tours, but similar. Is this feasable? Are there enough iPod users out there who might be interested in guided tours of the French Quarter?

I’m not quite sure how a Podcast would pace itself. Perhaps, there is a playlist, and you move to the next track as you move through the tour. Such questions are probably answered by reading this article carefully.

I’ve opened up my Mac using a T-9 Torx. The back is off. I’ve blown on it a bit, to clear away the dust. There was a place under the keyboard, when touched, that would cause the behavior that caused it to crash. I assumed the processors was under there, but no it’s the PCMCIA slot, beneith that, there is the Air Port card.

In my search for this processor, I removed the Air Port card. With the computer lying on its side, like a menu left open on a place setting, or a greeting card on a mantle, I’ve booted the PowerBook and it’s sprung to life as a PowerBook should. The touching and jostling that caused it such grief recently, it doesn’t seem to mind.

Put the cover back on the bottom. It minds. It crashes as it has. Now I’m taking it apart further.

It’s a bit late, but you might be near by, and if you need a place to stay for Mardi Gras, I have a guest room in this creaky old apartment. Wish I’d nagged Dave about this, because I’m sure he’d like to see some of this Mardi Gras.

If you’re a friend or fellow blogger, let me know.

Sitting at this fold out table in my French Quarter apartment. Almost two months in, and the work is drying up. I’ve got a month to figure out what I’m going to do, or else.

Today I had business cards printed, down at the corner of Rampart and Bienville. The lady offered to fax me a proof. I told her she could just e-mail it. She said she didn’t have e-mail, she hadn’t learned it yet. Perfect.I’m taking all my printing back to this place.

The business cards say Alan Gutierrez - blogometer.com - Web Design * e-Commerce * Web Programming. Then in each corner is my number and e-mail address.

I’m changing. After I finish my one last Michigan based project, I’m done with programming. It’s lame. It’s boring. It goes against my nature. It has retarded my emotional development. I’m done. I am no longer a professional programmer. I don’t think I ever was. The dead Mac decides it for me.

I want to live in New Orleans. I want to be a part of New Orleans. I want to do what New Orleans asks of me. Ask not…

From here on out, I’m in retail sales.

I’m going to Muses. I’m about to be inundated with Grrl Power! Bracing.

UPDATE: I do like Muses. It’s the all women parade. It means that there is a chance that someone will throw me something.

The parade didn’t move as fast as I was told to expect. It was a decent pace. The weather was lovely.

Love the bands. In New Orleans high-schools the band is cooler than the football team. It’s no wonder this city continues to generate so much musical talent.

New Mac. Old Mac. Sad Mac. Dead Mac.

Mine is in that last stage. I spent the afternoon at John Gregory’s place, rebooting a great many times with a startup DVD. Eventually it boots, but Disk Utility fails. We backed up my user directory, which took two hours. In the mean time we walked around the Quarter delivering the new pocket sized edition of the Quater Crawl.

That was enough for one day. Tomorrow we run some agressive disk utilities. Then it’s open Mac surgery in the hope that something needs to be reseated.

In the mean time, I’m pecking away at an ancient VAIO Z505, in Windows 2000.

I’m very fortunate to know John. He’s got Macs upon Macs, and nothing but Macs.

While the SEO folks are reading me in the next few days, let me query them on an SEO issue.

Dominic Varrecchio is running for City Clerk of New Orleans, Louisiana. I’m going to create his campaign web site. I’ve registered a number of names for the site. The include…

• varrecchio.com
• dominicvarrecchio.com
• nickvarrecchio.com
• nick4clerk.com
• nickforclerk.com

Would someone please tell me which is best for SEO? My guess is to simply use the sirname, since it is so obscure. However, this is New Orleans. Information travels by word of mouth. Wouldn’t it be better to print nick4clerk.com on campaign collateral, in the hopes that someone will remember it?

Currently, the nick4clerk.com and nickforclerk.com domains redirect to varrecchio.com.