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In five days, this blog will be 3 years old.
Normally, after a few years of *something* existing it’s time to party. Perhaps a re-design, re-purpose or simple “thank you” to all those who have followed the ups and downs and still continue to tag along for the ride.
If there is one universal constant, it is that I am not normal. Another is that what goes up, must (eventually) come down.
And it is with a combination of sadness (and hope) that I officially close down smackfoo.com. Whilst the site will remain active for posterities sake1 it will cease to be my primary voice and will as such not see updates.
It’s also time to bid Wordpress goodbye. It’s been a fine vehicle for basic content management, but is simply not heading in a direction that I chose to follow. It is increasingly difficult to maintain code for the platform and consumes more time than it really should.
I have always appreciated the chance to share ideas and philosophies2 and I thank each and every visitor and regular alike for dropping by.
As I’ve hinted at previously there is however, a new love in my life. The Lab has been quietly taking shape and has developed over a few months of mixing chemicals and powders together to see what explodes. The odd scorching aside it’s worked out pretty well.
Thus, I would like to invite you all to visit the Atomic Ninja Labs — my new home.
Nine hours and fifty-five minutes of mad design clean up and deployment begins. Now.
I’ve been working on something. It’ll be live soon and it’s a whole new direction. More soon.
On a side-note — filed under the special-things-that-turn-one-homicidal category — something was slightly h0rked after a recent hosting upgrade. I think I’ve nailed it now. Mostly.
“Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh… everything’s perfectly all right now. […]
Mr Hunt has re-launched cameron i/o.
“I’ve run this website on Tumblr since May 2007. But starting today I’m switching to Chyrp, a new lightweight blogging engine. If you don’t follow me on Twitter, or browse my photos on Flickr, you probably have no idea I’ve been planning this.”
Grey hues never looked so good — the refresh brings subtle improvements to imagery and typography alike — resulting in a more polished presentation.
It’s also great to see that chyrp is still quietly achieving very cool things in the self-hosted tumble log space, boasting features and functionality similar to that of tumblr and like services.
Looks great Cameron - props on the change and design!
Dougal notes that he has ditched the daily Twitter posts:
“Just as with my daily del.icio.us link posting experiment in the past, I have decided to discontinue my automated daily Twitter summary.”
By all that is precious in this world, thank-you. If I want to read your tweets, I’ll follow you. If I want to see your daily del.icio.us hoarding, I’ll subscribe to that feed too.
Blogs that I once read every day — often with quite some anticipation — have become at best a catch-all for random comment, pointless new-media fads and scraped mindless regurgitation, all of which have their own place and time.
I cannot help but echo Shawn Blanc, who perhaps said it best — “I want to read what you have to say.”
Mr Dunlop-Walters has recently redesigned:
“I have redesigned this ‘ere tumblelog.. Personally, I think it’s rather nice (though the header is a little boring).”
I’m an absolute sucker for a minimalist design.
Soft browns and large clear font choices for navigation and informational elements makes reading a joy — numblr is yet another fine example showcasing tumblr, and that it isn’t yet another haven of re-re-regurgitated scum and villainy.
There is a lot to be said for power-cycling a misbehaving system.
Remove the juice, wait, add juice and many-a-system-issue will disappear in a puff of imaginary smoke. Then there is the human body and mind. Which in many ways responds in the same manner. Swap juice with stress and effort, and the same results can […]
Cue dark-ages Britain. And.. action.
The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.
Large Man with Dead Body: Here’s one.
The Dead Collector: That’ll be ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not dead.
The Dead Collector: What?
Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There’s your ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not dead.
The Dead Collector: ‘Ere, he […]
You’ve may have noticed that this site has been under maintenance and unavailable for the last twenty hours or so — the “retooling outage” went live around 24 hours ago.
The reason has been due to migrating to a new Virtual Server based hosting service.
Whilst I have been impressed with the Media Temple
gridserver (gs), the […]
The previous blockquote highlight, a large and black-striped box, seemed altogether too ‘heavy’ for the (currently) more minimalist design in use.
The problem in selecting a replacement was two-fold. I wanted an oblique style, that translated well across both the Mac and Windows platforms, that also managed to avoid font
jaggies, something Windows users are typically […]
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 […]
