Archive for the 'General' Category

• 05.21.07 To Whom It May Concern posted in General

  I thought I’d jot a quick post tonight. I’ve sorely neglected the blog for a few days now, having become obsessed with a complete overhaul of the main Circle Six Design site. It’s going very well, a Victorian/Noir design with a touch of javascript and a few maneuvers that I pulled out of thin air to impress the ladies. I also fixed the link on 30Cal so if you haven’t tried it yet, check it out. One of my visitors sent me an enhancement for the Wordpress Theme Bundle, so look for an updated release of that very soon. I’m seriously considering doing all of the more advanced tags and still planning to get it up-to-date with the new codex. All this and more, as soon as I get the new site online. Oh, and I’m building the new site on WP 2.2, so it’s giving me a chance to test my plugins and bundles for errors, which I’ll report/update soon.

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• 05.10.07 Jasmine: Headbanger posted in Movies
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• 05.04.07 Scared posted in Random Thoughts

  My scary morning encapsulated in eight pictures. I don’t get personal too often, but this was an exceptional morning for me, and I felt like sharing ;).

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• 04.29.07 From Milwaukee with Love posted in General

  I slept really well on a futon last night. It’s fun being in a house with an open wireless connection, although I went and forgot the power supply for my MacBook, so this will be short lived. My friend paul shared this with me, though, so if you haven’t seen it, it’s worth a look. Go to maps.google.com and get directions, and type in New York to London. Read the instructions carefully. The map makes it pretty obvious.

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• 04.06.07 Finally Subverted posted in Geekery, Website Updates

  I finally took a few minutes and finished learning what I needed to know about Subversion in order to get my entire blog under revision control. I now have a local working copy that I can modify and test with a local database, and then when it’s working I can commit the changes to the main repository. Then I just update the live install from the server and everything is synced up. Now I can revert my changes, keep a log, and feel a little safer when upgrading. And I can work from multiple machines without getting out of sync! I’m not convinced I’ve got the ideal workflow yet, but it’s working, and I’m happy. As I perfect the workflow, I intend for it to become a part of every web project I work on…

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• 04.05.07 Another VIRB (re)design posted in Website Updates

  I got bored again. The microphone theme is going back up, but the VIRB profile is staying, no matter how bad it sucks.

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• 04.05.07 A Chilly Day to be Naked posted in Website Updates

  We got some April snow here in Minnesota yesterday. But that didn’t stop me from stripping off my CSS and jumping in the CSS Naked Day lake. So if you’re here and it’s April 5th, you’re seeing my site at it’s nudest, most semantic state. I didn’t disable all of the stylesheets loaded by javascript (lightbox, extended live archives, etc.), so some parts of the site function strangely well in the context of a barren landscape, but I feel like I participated.

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• 04.04.07 Fresh Strawberry Design posted in Website Updates

  Admittedly not my best design ever, so I saved the microphone theme in its entirety until this is a little more smoothed out, but here’s my latest blog design. It’s got a light-up strawberry. Seriously, touch it. It’s scary. There are a lot of little hidden CSS tricks throughout the site, evidence that I’m getting better at my trade. I’m still very unhappy with the overall readability and having trouble finding that line between fun design and practical design. I’ll get there. I can do one or the other, I’m just working out how to combine them…

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• 03.26.07 Outrage in the Blogosphere posted in General

  Death threats against bloggers are a serious threat on a personal and social level. If you haven’t yet, show your support for Kathy Sierra over at Creating Passionate Users. Her plight is detailed in this post.

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• 03.20.07 Ubergeekcoolness posted in Geekery, Circle Six Happenings

  So our landlord has consented to let us put a touchscreen in the wall outside of the main entrance to our newly expanded office, allowing us to have a message board for our clients and visitors who come while our limited staff is out to meetings or working out of the office. I want it to have a snazzy interface that shows, in Twitter style, where each employee is in general terms, what they’re doing and if and when they’ll be back. I want it to be easy to update and accept texts from mobile phones, so I may actually interface with Twitter. I also want it to be able to accept messages from people using an onscreen keyboard. Now I just have to find the time to make the interface…

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