The best of 2007 (and some more thoughts)

This is the second part of what started last year about this time. I sometimes think my memory stops working. Let’s see if I am wrong on this.

I picked my very best of this year which is:

• The best moment for this website ...are actually two. Smashing Magazine selects porcupine colors among hundreds for its 404 error page and for its favicon. Great news and a lot of traffic here.
• A blog which made me read it again and again: The personal website of Andy Rutledge. Great posts about what is to be a professional Web designer and fight for it. Hey, Mr. Rutledge, you did exceptional work and thank you for it. It is the absolute bookmark.
• The best: (with no further explanation) Jeffrey Zeldman. I hate him and I envy him, that’s all.
• The best book I read: The God delusion by Richard Dawkins. It’s a light romance written for people who try desperately to find the love of their life. No?
• The strongest thought: “Ambition! You must want a big success and then beat it into submission; you must be as ravenous to reach it as the wolf who licks his teeth behind a fleeing rabbit; you must be as mad to win as the man who, with one hand growing cold on the revolver in his pocket, with the other hand pushes his last gold piece on the ‘Double-O’ at Monte Carlo.” From the book of Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own, via blog.pmarca.com

Some random thoughts

2007 was a year of constant changing. A new home, a new car and a new Mac are enough but not the only changes in my everyday routine. Time passed so fast that I let many things uncontrolled and this is the not good part of the story.

I owe some trips, preferably outside Greece in order to change my view and create new life feedback. (Do I write nonsense here? I think so.) I also want to visit Athens again and again, it is my hometown anyway and I never get bored of it.

This website did change my life in ways I could never think of when I begun. It doesn’t have to do with how many visited it only, but who they did. I can’t provide details right now but I think you know what I mean. porcupine colors grows and becomes the center of my activities and work. Stay tuned.

The only thing I wish for myself is to remain healthy and I wish you the same dear readers. Last year I said that the best is yet to come. Now I say that the best is here but is not over. In fact this is only the beginning.

Happy new year to all of us :o)