31 Dec
   Filed Under: Announcement   

Regardless of time zones, Cocoia wishes you a successful, fun, and above all iconic 2008! Expect new regular blog updates to recommence soon after I have recovered from the exuberant partying.

I want to thank Jelmar from Typehigh for the best typography of 2007 (the header font of this blog design, for example), all my clients who made my dream of working on what I love to do possible, and all you readers for keeping up with my erratic posting. I wish you all the best!

27 Dec
   Filed Under: Unfiled   

The last post of 2007!

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It was a cold day in March of this year (the sixth, to be precise) when I started the Cocoia Blog. It’s funny that with this post, I’ll probably contradict my first post on this blog; with this end-of-the-year post, I might just be turning this into a diary – at least a bit. March of that year was the dawn of an exhilarating chapter in my life.

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06 Dec
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Today (as if yesterday wasn’t bad enough) something bad happened. I think it was a plot, deliberately set up by the disturbing army of furry animals in my working environment.

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06 Dec
   Filed Under: Icon Design, Personal Work   

As the holidays are approaching, I have decided that I am better off spending a few days not working in the year and taking the time to perfect my icons and the details in them. I will be blogging a bit less, and I probably won’t release much, if anything in the rest of 2007. But January 2008 will certainly be the date of the extended Orion iconset, and another set that I am working on in my spare time. I decided to show that off to whet your appetite for the holidays and the new year. Work in progress!

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Apart from a good system-replacement set, I will release a set of icons in a theme of my first portfolio website; the ‘forgotten mainframe’; overgrown electronics from damp rainforests on alien worlds. I don’t want to make the same mistake as I did with Orion, so sound off in the comments if there is any motivation for this to be a system set instead of just a small icon set.

06 Dec
   Filed Under: Personal   

Gedeon Maheux voiced the idea of confessing your boyhood crushes on December 6th, and I decided to participate – if only for my mental health in that I am not the only one having had a crush on cartoon (and Star Wars) characters in my boyhood. Although I could only dig up a limited amount from the dark recesses of my memory, this may go down the slippery slope of geeky crushes, so don’t say you weren’t warned.

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05 Dec
   Filed Under: Announcement   

Well, Mediatemple was kind enough to inform me over email that I would be getting an overage of $3851,- or more if I were to continue transferring data at the insane rate that I am. Yeah, Orion, the so well received set, has gone over a few odd terabytes now – something I can’t say has ever happened in my life as a website owner. I have, first and foremost, upgraded my server, but I think I might have to move to another hosting solution, or something like S3 for bulk data transfer.

Offering help, advice? Drop a comment if you will.