Archive for December, 2008

A whole new blog type thing

So, here we go. The time has come again for me to get tired of the design of my blog and redo it all. It happens. This redo is a little more than just a different look. This one comes with a few useful adjustments. For one, the stuff that actually changes fairly regularly has been moved to the top of the front page. Twitter and Flickr are right up there at the top.

Second, the text got really big, or rather it stopped being really small. For a long time people, myself included, have felt the need to shrink text until its tiny. This makes it harder to read and is just completely unnecessary. If this is the sort of thing you enjoy, you can read more about the 100E2R idea at Information Architects. For the rest of you, just enjoy the fact that you don’t have to strain your eyes to read my stuff. I also switched to using a more rigid grid system. You notice that as you scroll down the page, certain stuff lines up all the way down the page. Isn’t typography fun?

The other thing I did was make the comments a little more noticeable. There is probably more coming in that regard, but for now, there is that big link to the side of the articles. I last change was to make a little better separation between the long comment posts and the short link posts so they don’t all run together.

Things are a little hard to test so, if you see stuff that looks wrong: overlapping text, screwy layout, non-functioning stuff, certain pages that look completely different, leave a comment and let me know so I can fix it. Have fun.

For all the little boys in the world, there is now actual scientific evidence that girls do, in fact, have cooties. Some of us older guys have just decided that it is worth the risk. From the article,

Unexpectedly, women had different bacteria from men and significantly more kinds, even though women reported washing hands more often

“De 10 à 60 ans” is a very cool project where a series of photos were done of a single model where makeup and lighting alone were used to make her appear 10 years old and 60 years old and everything in between.

The theme for the year

So the last couple of years, I have been going with a theme of sorts as my Christmas list. This does a couple of things. First, I know it isn’t easy to buy gifts for me, this makes it much simpler. Second, it makes it pretty easy to come up with a list that is just a bunch of expensive stuff. Third, people can go with the theme, and I still get to be completely surprised.

That being said, this year, if you are wanting to get me something, but can’t decide what, feel free to go ahead and get me a board game or two. I recently became aware that Amy and I have almost zero board games. This was particularly obvious when we were trapped in our house for 3 days by a hurricane with no reliable electricity.

This is a little late, but it is still pretty interesting, so you are getting it anyway. An unnamed photographer(s) followed the Obama family on election night,  capturing a pretty rare, behind-the-scenes look at the soon-to-be first family. My favorite has to be this one.

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