What is 8164.org?
8164.org is the personal and professional blog of Jin Y(that’s me). I work as a web interface designer and live in the DC Metro area. I’ve been doing web design and development since 1995. It’s been a fun journey, from seeing the first web animation via server push method to the explosion of Ajax; from working with a browser that didn’t support IMG tag in table cell to designing for the iPhone. I’ve worked for agencies, in-house and freelanced throughout my career. I’ve also done extensive programming from front-end scripting to back-end business logic and database programming.
These days my main focus is web application user interface design. This blog is my little space to talk about design philosophy, techniques and other things that interest me.
I wasn’t asking about you, what is 8164.org?
In 2004 during a visit to China, while waiting for my plane at the Beijing airport, I picked up two books of Taoism, Tao Te Ching (道德經 Dao De Jing) and I Ching (易經 Yi Jing). I had a rough idea of what Taoism is since I was born and raised in China. However, i merely saw these books as ancient literature growing up, nothing else. After reading every chapter, I was very humbled and enlightened by the life lessons from the books. The philosophical Taoism, Dao Jia emphasizes on inner peace through being in harmony with nature, and living a balanced life.
The modern world we live in today has changed so much since Lao Zi wrote Tao Te Ching over 2500 years ago. Practicing Tao beliefs has given me much inner peace and has helped me to deal with everyday life in a very profound way.
Oh yeah about 8164.org… There are 81 chapters in Tao Te Ching, and 64 chapters in I Ching. Hence the domain. I intend to translate every single chapter into English, and post on this site among my design related topics. It will be a long term, ongoing personal project.
Contact
Until I set up a contact page, I can be reached at jy76810[at]gmail.com
You can also find me on Twitter.
I love your home page.
Great domain name!
Very nice site. Reading the above, I’m wondering if you realize that Tao Te Ching has already been translated into English? I even recall seeing one site which churned out a random chapter from the book in English every day. Find that and do the copy and paste jobby and you’ve got loads of free time to design more cool sites.
Niall, yep I’m fully aware it’s been translated. I explained why I’m translating it again, in my intro blog to TTC
http://www.8164.org/tao-te-ching/
thanks for visiting.
Very creative design, good work!