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After close to three years of working out of my home in my pajamas I am finally ready for a change, and a move up. I am planning on taking the plunge and moving into an actual work space. You know, a space dedicated only to work? Not also to laundry and cooking and movie watching and child-rearing? My own creative space (drool).

Well, not just my own. I am teaming up with someone else. A secret-identity project manager, business-type guy. So I don’t have to take care of all the business! And if the space sharing goes well, we plan on forming a full-fledged startup company! It’s very exciting!! In the mean time, we are in need of three things – eight others to share the space with, a new school programming nerd and, eventually, a new business name. If you live in the East Bay of the San Francisco area and are looking for space, check out what we have to offer and drop me a line. If you are a new-school web-programming nerd and you’re looking to team up with, say, a designer/coder and a business guy, definitely let me know. If you have any name ideas, please, please, please sumbit them in the comments – it’ll be fun!

The other day I was charged with implementing the realign of Energy Muse, a site I had coded last year. Energy Muse had redone their logo, and therefore wanted a site-wide facelift that would reflect their altered branding.

This was the first time that I had been involved in the realign of one of my own sites. Not to toot my own horn but I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW EASY IT WAS! Seriously, I was amazed to see a real-life zen garden type switcharoo. I did not touch the html. Not even a little bit. Uploading a few new images and an updated CSS sheet was all that was required to transform this:

Into this:

Remember Papyrus? It started really showing itself several years ago, particularly in the identity material of alternative health practitioners? I’ll admit, I really liked it. I even used it as my default font for IMing for a while. But then it started showing up more and more. I started seeing it everywhere – on brochures, on awnings, on invitations. And it seemed that everyone was using it for their logos.