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You may note a little pinkish hue to the ‘foo on your next visit.
I’ve joined the fray for the
Pink for October campaign.
“Web sites will Go Pink during the month of October to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research.”
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Having lost a grandparent […]

Bill Israel notes a salient point about
grid-based design:
I, admittedly, have a soft-spot for the clean, crisp look a grid-based layout provides, and grids can be an excellent way to lay out visually pleasing information, but do all these layouts1 have to look so similar?
There-in lies the inevitable conundrum regarding grid-based content.
At a […]

I’m about done.
I have updated
broadleaf for the last time1 as the time and resources required to keep the theme current are a little exhaustive. Recent changes in Wordpress table construction has meant a total re-write of the theme code handling posts.
It now uses a conditional query statement that should work under either 2.2.x […]

Finally, the appropriate "gift" to send when that someone special posts yet another ill-defined, crudely written, grammar challenged and assumption rich sudo-expert how-to-blog article.
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Wordpress has been a great friend for nearly four years. In that time it has been an amazing teacher, student, adversary and in some ways, confidant.
But of late it’s been getting a lot harder to do simple things. Like aggregate links1 as articles, handle categories and tags2 in a sane-and-useful manner, pull entries out of […]

Michael posts about the
Lifehacker Does Xbox Media Center article:
“I’m a huge proponent of
Xbox Media Center. That is, an old Xbox, chipped and with
XBMC installed on it, to make it the ultimate SD media center ever in the world of the history of everything..”
I’ve had an Xbox for something like 4 years now. […]

Glenn Wolsey notes that he is
frustrated over iPod Touch (Non) Shipment:
I believe Apple should have started shipping the iPod touch to those who pre-ordered online either before, or alongside those who can now walk into an Apple store and pick one up on impulse.
Apple’s delays in delivering new-launch product via the online stores is […]

Michael has recently written (in
pirate) that he is
kinda diggin’ tumblr:
I’ll skip th’ whole ‘this is what
tumblr is, in relation t’ all o’ these other, pseudo-similar web 2.0 sites’ and simply say that I’m kind o’ fallin’ in love with
tumblr, and dinna spare the whip, avast! I’m not 100% committed yet, and […]

update: the sponsorship spots are now published on the
tumblr log as well - twice the value.
I presently have four
sponsorship spots available, for those interested in some advertising that goes beyond a simple text link or the proverbial (ugly) banner.
Each spot is custom tailored to fit with the site design, yet be vibrant enough […]

There is something about
Tumblr that has me deeply involved in a love-hate tryst. Absolute hate and love with the strongest of passions.
It’s utter and total simplicity makes virtually every other blog platform I’ve ever looked at, or tried1 feel like trying to work out the mathematics to form a wormhole in space-and-time by comparison.
Take […]

I’ve
been playing this evening. A re-design1 on the tumblr platform — holy father, doesn’t
Garamond look downright gorgeous on the mac?!

Even the sub-par Windows font rendering engine does OK at the slightly larger font sizing2 I’ve selected. If you’re a Microsoft bunny and don’t have Garmond, then you should be ashamed3 and go get […]