Essentially ….. stop over analyzing everything.

I think it is just somehow in my nature to figure out the most difficult way to achieve some task. I don’t really care what it is really, I will work it out and figure out what I am doing and inevitably I will find out that I have been trying entirely too hard to accomplish the goal. Most often nobody will say anything to me, and I will feel like a genius when I get to where I am going, but I do believe this is just due to the fact that noody really cares what I am doing most often. Heck I even have problems sometimes myself caring particularly what I am doing.

This leads back to several projects I have undertaken. For one the web-design stuff. I guess I really don’t have enough of a driving desire to learn how to do things properly and efficiently so that is where that one will end. Though at least I don’t feel that I am starting over from scratch everytime I work on something, just several steps back from where I probably ought to be.

For those of you that remember, I was at some point, long long ago attempting to attach a NES controller to the PC for use playing old games on an emulator. I know most people thought it was a pretty fruitless cause, which indeed it was. I just wanted to see if I had the mad skillz to get it done. After some working and whatnot, I was able to make it work, but not as well as I would have truly hoped. The method employed, made it work over a serial connection, which I guess is the right way to go, but why did I never look to the next easier step, and make the device more compatible with new hardware that does not come with the 9-pin serial port? I have since found the method for doing this via a USB connection and I am dying to give it a shot, maybe when time and money are leaning more on my side.

So really there must be a multitude of other things that I am doing the half-assed-backwards-way but don’t even realize it. I know some people out there would be more than willing to tell me what im doing wrong and how to alleviate my problems, which might be well and good. Chances are I wouldn’t listen to most people anyhow, so I gues who cares. Its not like many people read this anyways, just a place to spout off random stuf in the middle of the night.

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Probably due to the fact that I am no good at it, web design is one thing that just pisses me off. Why can’t I understand all the little things about graphic design and be able to combine that with proper coding. I guess some things are just not meant to be. I have been toying around with the idea of editing the layout of this page, but I lack motivation to do such. When I have made mention of changing it, people say they like it, so who am I to argue with Jeff’s designs.

osCommerce on the other hand, forget about it. All these includes and “php” stuff. That explains why my forays into that field have yeilded nothing worthy of note. Is it bad that I can’t even figure out where it is pulling all the information from and why it is putting everything where it does? The answer I am sure is yes, but I guess that is one thing I will just have to sit here and drive myself crazy over. I guess after reading through some forums, I am not as bad off as some out there, but I am just one of the poor blokes that is here with enough knowledge to be dangerous, but not enough to really be effective.

I never realized that I would have to run the gamut from conceptualization, design, implementation and maintenance on all aspects of a business. If that were the case I probably would have persued some sort of business education. I guess such is life I will pretend I am good with graphics and stay in my little world of digital photography, toying around in Photoshop and Corel Draw to make products on the laser, but all for what? If I can’t put the storefront together on the web, why should I continue any of this. At least I don’t claim to know much, and I thank the people that endure my endless questions bout such simple tasks. But I think it is time to start to improve myself again, I have so many half assed projects out there, it is time to get something right.