Browsing the blog archives for April, 2003
Apr 23, 2003 The CDs I ripped today. They’ve been standing in my CD shelf for a long time without me listening to them. I thought I’d take care of that.
I’ve been listening almost exclusively to body/EBM for the past year. Time to add some variation to my playlists. Though 242 are the grandfathers of body music and Cobalt 60 is a side project of 242…
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Apr 19, 2003 More typography. Veer sports a new layout that I really like. And they now host Fountain, a collection of fonts from a Swedish guy. A whole lot of nice typesets there. Hybrid and OGRA caught my eye instantly.
Too bad fonts are so darn expensive…
Update: Fountains own site.
Apr 18, 2003 Slashdot says that the Vera font family has been released. I’ve installed it on both Durandal and Cortana (that would be the PC and the Mac, respectively), and it looks very sweet for a free, open sourced font.
I’m still sticking to Lucida Grande as default font in Safari, though. It looks nicer than Vera Sans, though Vera Sans is a bit clearer. I also didn’t quite like that Vera Sans Oblique is so broad. Vera is, just like Verdana, optimized for screen displays.
Grab the Vera family from here, or check out a screenshot of the family. Though, as I said, it’s made for screen displays, and not in the sizes in the screenshot.
Apr 16, 2003 Just watched Equilibrium. Darn good movie — even Martin thought it was good, and that’s high praise coming from him
Yup, definitely worthy of a DVD purchase. Guns, martial arts, oppressive governments and science fiction. Oh my.
Apr 15, 2003 Heh, BlogShares was major fun. I’ve spent all the virtual money you get when you sign up (barely enough left for a virtual Big Mac), so let’s wait and see if I’ve invested in good stuff. Like, say, 20% (1000 shares) of Accessify.
I also bought 100 shares in The Economist — I’m guessing that news sites tend to increase in value rather quickly as soon as they appear on BlogShares. And 50 shares in Surfin’ Safari, just because Safari is a darn fine browser.
Mark Pilgrim is also hooked on BlogShares. I’ll steal his nice idea and make you a deal: if you give me 100 some shares of your blog, I’ll add a link to your blog in the “stock roll” section I’ll be adding if I can reel in some suckers on my offer. Outgoing links from my site are currently worth $76,15. Not much compared to Mark’s whopping $12,000, but I just started.
To give shares to me, use this link after you’ve logged in to BlogShares.
(20 minutes later) Whee! I bought Economist at 1.02, now they’re worth 1.82. That’s 80 bucks for my 100 shares. Yup, this will provide entertainment for quite a while.
Apr 15, 2003 Just for the heck of it, I’ve joined BlogShares. Let the capitalistic tendencies begin!
Apr 15, 2003 Porn movie star, that is. Though I have certain doubts about the journalism behind this…
Apr 15, 2003 Looks like I had to rewrite the template and CSS from scratch in order to have the source flow like I wanted it to. Much better this way, needed to get all the old muck out of the stylesheet. I also split it in two files; one for the layout and one for typographical stuff and colors.
I’ll toss together a logo as well, and then I will be toying with the colors a bit. Then it’s all done.
Oh, that and make templates for categories, calendars, archives and individual entries. Yay.
Apr 14, 2003 There we are. An older layout back in place. Still doing some minor changes to the typography and colors, and I’ll move the sidebar in the source so it appears after the actual content to be nice to text browsers.
Also, Safari 1.0 beta 2 is out. Go fetch or use software update.
Apr 12, 2003 I’m having a look at AppleScript. The syntax seems a bit too simplified to me as a PHP programmer, but if you ignore the verbosity it seems quite capable. Haven’t tried to write anything of my own yet, mostly because I can’t think of anything useful to try.
Of interest, related to AppleScript:
