Mark’s Blog

I am currently seeking full-time employment! If you like working with a passionate, awesome, and “very interested in learning more about anything and everything Web design and development” person, then feel free to contact me (look for my resume on my Web site).

I am looking for a fast-paced, exciting company for which to work; a company where I can utilize my skills to my maximum potential and continue to learn and grow to become an ever-growing asset to it and its clients. So don’t wait, give me a call (or shoot me an email), today!

Did that seem a little cheesy? Good. I like it. Cut and print!

Exercise is as essential to living as is breathing oxygen, eating and sleeping. People who work complain about feeling so tired or being so worn out after a stressful day at the office receive no sympathy from me. I won’t even play the world’s smallest violin for them, because they have complete control over their lives and they don’t even know it.

If you exercise well most days of the week and eat well all days of the week, you won’t feel so tired when you get home from work, or even while you’re at work. Plus, you will even preform better at work and at home, by being more awake, more aware and more energized then ever before.

This is your life, why waste it being unhealthy? This is what I don’t understand about people. You have one life. One. Why on earth wouldn’t you want to live the best life you can? You don’t want to deprive yourself of sleep, you don’t want to deprive yourself of food, so why would you want to deprive yourself of exercise? Why deprive yourself of healthy foods that will make your life more enjoyable?

Anyway, enough with the ranting. I just bought the book, LL Cool J’s Platnium Workout. I’m on week 1 of phase 1. Let’s see how it goes.

So this past Friday I moved into my new apartment! I’m really liking not living in a fraternity. Not that living in a fraternity wasn’t fun, it was, but now that I’m in the “real world,” I think apartment living will be more conducive to my productivity and work.

Here’s a list of reasons why I’m happy to be living in a new apartment and not living at the fraternity:

• I don’t have to walk down two flights of stairs to get to the kitchen
• I don’t have to lock up my food
• Bigger room and a lot more storage space (plus a huge closet!)
• I can finally set up my desk so it’s more like an office/work environment than a college dorm room environment
• Closer to my work
• Quieter neighborhood
• Kevin (my roommate) has an Xbox 360 and is getting an HDTV (can we say Halo 3?)
• The list goes on!

Once I get everything situated, set up and organized, I’ll take some pictures and post them here so everyone can see how cool I am.

In other news, I’m still in the works of getting the PC I built for work to work. I’m hoping to have that settled by the end of this week. I’m currently finishing up that Alpha Gamma Delta - University of Minnesota Chapter Web site, and then I’ll be working full-throttle on Circuit Sports’, Kelly Benefits Strategies / Medifast Pro Cycling Team Web site, as well as Jane Gilgun’s Personal Web Site.

I’ve always been meaning to write more, but the fact that I feel I’m not a very graceful writer has been one of the key factors that has kept me from doing so more often. However I feel that if I were to begin to write more often, I would eventually get better. So I am pledging to myself (and whomever is unfortunate enough to be reading this) that I will start to write more — and perhaps at greater length — about whatever I feel like writing about (most likely it be technology and Web related).

To start, I’ll explain my stance on the Microsoft vs. Apple topic.

Personally, I’m not a fan of either Apple or Microsoft. Any piece of technology that limits your options and is proprietary, can go to hell in my opinion. Sure, you’ve got to make money somehow, but I just think it would be really nice to see one day where all technological devices, software and peripherals included would all just be compatible with each other and nothing would be proprietary. I can dream, can’t I?

I choose to use a PC (one I built myself) because it doesn’t limit my options as much and is easier on the wallet. I choose to use Microsoft’s operating systems because I don’t think it’s even possible to install an Apple OS on a PC, plus I have a great deal more control over it, and I like that.

Some brilliant developer created a Google Maps application that let’s you map out your running, biking, swimming, etc. routes! The Gmaps Pedometer lets you map out you route, and will automatically calculate a “from here, to here and back” with just the click of a button. It will calculate how many miles you travel and can even determine the potential number of calories burned for that route.

This application has been around for a while, but I’ve recently learned of it and it’s been very helpful. I’ve mapped out my current running route and my future running route for when I move this September.

There’s also an option to save your routes for later reference. I’ve saved my current route and my potential future route already.

Web
AP style requires the use of a capital letter when referring to the World Wide Web: Web site, the Web, Web page.

(source: University of Mary Washington)

There, “Web” is capitalized, and “Web site” is two words! People always ask me why I write “Web site” like I do. Now you know.

Hi.

I’m Mark Kimitch and I love Web design and development. And search engine optimization. And Web standards. And pretty much anything else that has to do with creating and maintaining Web sites. Seriously, I’m kind of nerd like that. Talk to my sisters, they’ll tell you how I’m always talking to them about what I did at work or what I learned about Web design, coding, seo, etc. They’ll also tell you that they usually have no idea what I’m talking about.

This blog will be the place where I talk about what I’m working on, what I’m learning, what questions I have, and probably a few things about what’s going on in my life. I’m in no way a well versed writer, nor am I a guru in any field. I just have a passion, and I want to share it with the world (and potential employers… *wink*wink*).

Oh yeah, and I know this blog and my portfolio site look a little bland… I’ll be sprucing them up shortly.