Sunday, April the 26th, 2009
I shot a small series while hanging out with some friends late last evening. With its old school colours and comfortable ambience, I kinda like how it turned out.
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- 04.27.09: If I spent a third of the time learning a real instrument as I did mastering Elite Beat Agents, my life would be substantially better. (0)
- 04.21.09: I just received an e-mail from my brother which seemed quite Nigerian-scammy on first glance. (0)
- 04.17.09: Considering the barber dude only knew five words of English and I only five of Norsk, I’d say my new haircut wasn’t a complete disaster. (2)
- 04.16.09: Either this is some sort of police exercise gone nuts, or my cutesy-looking neighbourhood houses a dastardly fiend. (2)
- 04.14.09: If something can’t be described by a continuous field theory, it’s not really a science. I’m looking at you “string theory.” (0)
- 04.13.09: This is just silly. I can’t believe today is a holiday as well! Is the “five weeks” I’m supposed to get off in addition to all of this? (0)
- 04.09.09: The only cool thing about paying income taxes in more than one country is large tax refunds in more than one country! (0)
- 04.07.09: If you ever wondered how the gradient of the vector field formed by the stubble one your face might look, you just might be a geek. (2)
- 04.06.09: Nepotism. One of the last remaining ways to get an honest day’s work in these dire economic times. (0)
- 04.03.09: Nor can I enter my research facility to earn some more. (0)
- 04.03.09: After months of use, I realised in the supermarket today that I’d forgotten all my PIN numbers. Now I officially don’t have access to money. (1)
- 04.02.09: As I awoke today, the first few paragraphs of my as-yet-unnamed book were clear in my mind. I hope I stick with it and eventually finish it! (0)
- 04.01.09: I recently had my hair chewed on by a cat. I decided to save this bit of news until April the 1st, to leave you pondering its truthfulness. (0)
Tuesday, March the 31st, 2009
I haven’t written (or done) anything site related in a while, so here’s me filling that quota.
I just realised the other day that nearly 80% of my traffic still comes from Windows users and nearly all those readers arrive on various flavours of Internet Explorer (IE). Furthermore, since I hadn’t been on Windows or seen my journal in IE for a long time, I only recently realised that things look very different there from how they do on my Mac. And when I say “different,” I mean “unsightly,” which is not acceptable.
When I first “designed” this layout, I remember making sure that things looked reasonably similar across different platforms. I guess it’s just that over the years, the numerous tweaks I’ve been making to the interface have added up to significantly different appearances on different platforms. That being the case, I think now is as good a time as any other for a reset. Toward this end, I’ve started working on a new style that looks remarkably similar to the current one, but has two main goals. One, to simplify and streamline the back-end code. Two, to make things look and feel consistent across major browsers and platforms. (Sorry, my three fucking Opera users.)
The test page linked-to above serves to prototype and showcase the design. I’m trying to start with a clean slate by using CSS from the YUI Library from Yahoo. I’ll let you know how that works out. For now, notice how things look quite similar on two disparate environments: Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP and Safari 3 on Mac OS X Leopard. I’m also maintaining a more detailed design status table covering different browsers and platforms.
At the end of this exercise, things should not be too different from what you’ve come to know and love. But over the course of the next few weeks, things might appear randomly broken as I move changes live into the journal. If you experience this, don’t panic. Go out, take a walk and by the time you get back, I should have things sorted out. If I seem to have missed something, do let me know!