Well, it has been a long while, but after weeks of travel and work and films and art and some business, I've been refocusing my attention on the need for creation, for creative action.
In that spirit, I'm reclaiming this blog for what I'd always intended it to be, a place for me to record my thoughts, and perhaps contribute something meaningful to the conversation at work on the web these days.
So be warned, the future is now; or very soon at least.
I'm now using RSS to feed photos from my Flickr account to the side-bar of this blog. I take pride in my photos, particularly since they're taken using my Sony-Ericsson K-750i 2MP camera-phone. Currently the ones showing are from my trips to The Modern and the Nasher Sculpture Center, both in Dallas. Check them out!
My blog is too beautiful for words now that it's all dressed up. I stumbled upon this theme contest, and lo, I did find something that was passably suitable.
Close Seconds:
- Zen Minimalist
- Yaaarr! Tis me blog!
A case for SVG
An interesting things about the implementation of the theme: The "boxes", left and right are not simply block-level objects with red backgrounds and white borders. There's a single container div with a repeated backgrount image which includes the background color and borders. Also, the deeper red that the content sits on is not simply a background-color css rule, it's composed of a single vertically-stretched, horizontally-tiled (I think) image. I'd have preferred the former, but this wouldn't have given the nice left-to-right gradient on the page, and top-to-bottom gradient on the background. It'd be interesting to do this with a few lines of SVG. Why? Well the short answer is, I don't know how to use the visual graphics programs to make a pretty gradient, and nor do I think I should have to. If you take a look at how simple these graphics are, they can be described simply and easily by people without art training, so it would be nice if they were creatable by people such as myself as well. Unfortunately, the support isn't there, yet. It is, however, in the latest version of Firefox, which you should use for plenty of other reasons.Wow I've been really busy... a lot going on the past few weeks, everything from my car getting totaled, to another great trip to California. Maybe sometime I'll take the time to write some of this down...