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Month: April 2015

  • Oh HELL yes.

    Roger Sterling’s New Mustache Is Amazing — Vulture – PHWOAR.

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    Over breakfast I finally, FINALLY managed to convert 15 years of blog posts all to UTF-8. Thank you @the_snook for helping! #winning

    @gilmae WordPress? Bah. Never touched it. It’s my home-built CMS. 😛

    @gilmae And when I built it in 2001 on a shitty iMac, I had *no clue* what I was doing. Still only know enough to be dangerous. 🙂

    @gilmae Nah, it’s just PHP that writes to a DB. I used to give the source code away but stopped when I got tired of supporting it.

    Happy Dyngus Day! We made pierogies and borscht. (The world needs more holidays involving dumplings.)… https://t.co/3qMkl1dr5i

    @blahblahzine I get an error when I click on the link!

    w-g: It’s a responsive world. REFACTOR ALL THE THINGS! http://t.co/QnAvyX8RAK

    @ignitesydney Ha! I spent the weekend doing exactly the same on my sites. 🙂

    @jannism Just man up and drink the pint! 😛

    @jannism It’s a hard country. It changes a person.

    @mobywhale Thanks! And let’s be honest – without the social media I’d rarely post. It’s laziness disguised as a feature. 🙂

    Reading: ““I got 4 bikes”: 2 Nickelodeon Super Toy Run winners reminisce 20 years later” http://t.co/KpQDgDsnI0

    Roger Sterling’s New Mustache Is Amazing — Vulture – PHWOAR. [url]http://t.co/EnpVBZmlBg

    Reading: “Turn your iPhone into a Game Boy, and yourself into the child you once were” http://t.co/LrOgOOm27c

    RT @blahblahzine: Thank you for the tips on reducing car use @web_goddess @planningqueen @GoGet http://t.co/1HmUGzfMi3

    Reading: “Nick Offerman knows what Ron Swanson would think about Indiana’s new anti-gay law” http://t.co/S0UnYe0qzm

    @blahblahzine It works fine on my iPhone. But on my Mac in Chome, it looks like this: http://t.co/kZ5WFTzPyG

    Reading: ““There’s no way to win”: Ellen Pao shakes up Reddit by eliminating salary negotiation in hiring” http://t.co/ilJt1FKTeg

    Build for Change: A Product Hackathon with ReachOut Event // @GA is getting into the #altruismautumn spirit! https://t.co/fBw0n4S4qx

    RT @mpesce: THE GREATEST TUMBLR OF ALL TIME http://t.co/HLcGQO2PZL

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    Happy Dyngus Day! We made pierogies and borscht. (The world needs more holidays involving dumplings.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Śmigus-Dyngus#Dyngus_Day_in_America

  • It’s a responsive world.

    So obviously things have changed slightly around here. I spent a great deal of my four-day weekend in front of my laptop implementing a responsive design across both this site and a new professional site that I launched. For both of them, I used templates from HTML5 UP!. (I realise a template might be cheating/overkill, but it was a great starting point for someone whose CSS and HTML are decidedly rusty.) Along the way I learned heaps about character encoding (and how blog has been effed up in that regard for FIFTEEN YEARS), retina images, parallax scrolling, javascript minification, and lots of other stuff that’s come in since I stopped working as a dev. The blog is getting there. I’m still cleaning up a lot of cruft in the Photos section – about half the pages are still broken – and then I’ve got to tackle the DB itself. (Let’s just say I have a bad habit of typing HTML straight into my blog posts.) Damn, refactoring is addictive though. I’m having trouble stopping to go to bed! I’ve missed this. Make sure you check out the sites on your tablet or smartphone, and tell me if you find anything that looks wonky!

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    Happy Dyngus Day!

    Happy Dyngus Day! We made pierogies and borscht. (The world needs more holidays involving dumplings.)

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  • Shared today on Twitter

    One-Pot Tuna Noodle Casserole. So not Paleo. So tasty nevertheless… https://t.co/qGfmj54o0y

    @QHUpdates BSD5 appears to be down! http://t.co/y9D6ZcwUge (I hope it wasn’t me that killed it.)

    On a whim, spent two straight days finally going all-in on responsive web design. I blame @johnallsopp and @Malarkey. http://t.co/vD4Km3bPRH

    I actually built two sites. The other one is http://t.co/VGeB7OJqOk. Yeah, I used a template. Still figuring stuff out.

    My blog isn’t remotely done yet – still got a lot of legacy pages (and crufty DB content) to clean up. But getting there.

    Reading: “A 30-year-old is resurrecting one of Chicago’s most endangered landmarks – Quartz” http://t.co/WzvaW4dqqv

    Reading: “Antiques Roadshow special to shed new light on ‘extraordinary’ letters sewn by Great Yarmouth woman” http://t.co/epEZtlhPIB

    Reading: “how to sew a needle book” http://t.co/v4JkCptDM7

    Reading: ““Better Call Saul’s” Jonathan Banks on playing Mike: “It brings out a lot of my sadness”” http://t.co/fYU285G5I5

    @pwcc Yep, somebody else sent me that tip. Working on it now! 🙂

    @pwcc Thanks! I’ve been pulling in the social media stuff for years. It’s just the layout that needs to change.

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    @stufromoz Ah, shit. Was just about to head to Broadway.

    IT’S A MADHOUSE. (at @Coles in Glebe, NSW) https://t.co/IVqdNsL2kZ http://t.co/tEQuUXfMEr

    Mayo-Free Chicken Salad with Kimchi. The Snook said, “Yum. @davidchang would be all over this shit.” https://t.co/zndoLEQjL9

    My 14th Easter in Australia, and they’ve all been like this. #autumnsucks https://t.co/VCq9zPbZcP

    @RoseRed_Shoes Watching Big Bang Theory, and Amy is making Penny go to basket weaving!

    Reading: “ABC to Bring Back ‘The Muppet Show’ After 19 Years” http://t.co/8HhBQJGozM

    @RoseRed_Shoes Sheldon and Leonard went too, and they all ended up liking it! #winning

    @redambition …including the fact that I’M NOT ON IT. (Come on. That would be hilarious.)

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    There should be an anti-Peep support group for this time of year.

    Mayo-Free Chicken Salad with Kimchi. The Snook said, “Yum. @davidchang would be all over this shit.”

    My 14th Easter in Australia, and they’ve all been like this. #autumnsucks

  • Reading on Flipboard