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New Style Sheet

So i’ve spent a few hours mucking with my style sheet to get it looking less like the stock one you can get from the MT folks and more like my own thing… The colors were picked by Kevin again but i’m still not 100% sold on the brown thing.. Unfortunately, i’m not coming up with a color pallette that I like better… So for now i’m gonna stick with this… Let me know what ya think (and if anyone else has better suggestions i’m ALL EARS…

But this is it for now… I’ll keep mucking with it and see if I can find something I like better… But for now i’m off to get a cocktail! 🙂

Happy Saturday! 🙂

The Magic of Editing

In case you want to see the magic of what good video editing can do, check out this trailer for how The Shining could have been sold… Kinda funny! 🙂

Design skills COMPLETELY LACKING

So i’ve spent way too long farting around with my site layout and so far look what I’ve come up with… NOTHING… I’ve managed to get my picture display up top back up (and added the ability to rotate these images randomly with some PHP magic I found on we web) but aside from that I have YET to come up with anything I can deal with.. I kind of like the general form of this layout but its really just one of the MT standard layouts without much variation… I’d like to find something more me… better colors… simple and clean..

Anyway.. just whining… shows everyone has their skills and i’ve got one or two but none of ’em have ANYTHING to do with makin things purdy… Ah well…

Some Semblance of Normalcy

So i’m finally trying to get my blog put back together after the great hack of 2005. I just re-installed MT for the umteenth time (this time just because there wasn’t anything left in the old blog aside from the content that I needed to preserve). They just updated MT to MT 3.2 which seems pretty decent and they added the ability to easily swap ‘themes’ from a library which is pretty damn cool.. Only problem I had with it was the install instructions which are pretty poorly written – they should go back to the step by step instructions that they had before…

Anyway… Things seem to be up and running again… If you run into any trouble let me know…

Mail Tags

Just some geek stuff to pass along.. If any of you are using Mac OS X mail on Tiger I thought I’d pass along this cool little tool I found… A coworker passed along a link to a Mail plugin called Mail Tags which allows you to tag mail messages with things like projects, date due, and other comments. It then allows you to use spotlight to search and categorize them based on these tags.. I find this really handy because it lets you basically file and annotate mail messages…

Anyway.. Had to share… 🙂

Bear with me

Hey Folks… Please bear with me… As I said earlier – my blog was attacked this morning / last night by a hacker that did a pretty phenominal job of hosing it… After multiple attempts to re-construct it in place only to have it re-tagged I decided to do a fresh re-install and reload of MT. Its a painful process and i’m left with a format that, right now, is pretty bland and lame however the result should be a much cleaner blog.. I think I may use this opportunity to tidy up what I’ve got here and see if I can come up with a cleaner layout… The good thing is I have backups of the content on the blog so even though a lot of the structure is gone, the content is still there..

So please be patient – it’ll take me some time to get myself back to a layout I like…

*sigh*