November 2009
10 posts
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What did you do with your lunchtime today? I made...
Continuing the de-uglification
Titles in Gill Sans? Yes, we’ve got them now, thanks to the utterly awesome typeface.js
In other news, Ruth Jones out of that Gavin and Stacey programme is recording her Christmas special for BBC Wales in the studio here. Michael Ball in da house, Max Boyce in da house, etc. How very festive.
De-uglification sequence initiated
The use of a scan of flock wallpaper and big thick black lines was too much. I decided to use my standard background (used pretty much everywhere - generated within Aviary.com’s Peacock), a white background for the main bit and some tinkering with the CSS in features that I’ve not used yet.
Still got my Sinclair-inspired logo though =)
Seriously, if you’re on Tumblr and want to...
Ugly
I’ve successfully mangled some CSS to make this blog:
unique
as ugly as hell
Yay me!
Fun with APIs
Part of the reason I’ve chosen Tumblr as the platform for my blog empire is because it’s achingly customisable. And - hurrah! - it has a good, well documented API for techie tinkerers. Having had a good look through it I’ve realised I can replicate the bits of Storytlr that I’m really going to miss with some not-so-hard scripts. The only fly in the ointment is that...
VKendology: boozes plus bad maths
Preamble du jour
Anybody who knows me even the tiniest fraction knows I like maths and physics. I make no attempt to hide it (and why would I?); I’m very much an ‘out’ geek. This is the t-shirt I wore today. And anybody who has dipped into my posts online over the past, ooh, nearly five years knows how much I hate it when maths is used badly in PR campaigns disguised as...
Change of theme
After realising how clean and customisable the Field Notes theme is on Tumblr, I’ve switched to that and started tinkering with it (increasing the content width, logo at the top, Disqus comments so far; background design to follow).
Fascinating? Not really. Just want to post something. I’ve got a bigger super-post to finish off, but want instant gratification…