Category: Geekery

  • Taking the redesign stuff seriously

    If you need proof that I’m serious about restructuring this journal system, take a peek at this page. It’s kind of mangled, and will always be in various states of “mangled-ness” while I experiment with stylesheets and the removal of table code.

    I’ve created test includes, a test stylesheet and the test document so I can use the database content of this site without breaking the main page itself. As I find tricks that can be migrated back to the main page, I will do so. (Actually I already have; witness the newly-grey search widget.)

    I’m having a lot of fun with this, and learning a tremendous amount. If all goes well, greyduck.net will be a fabulously cool website some day.

  • Behind the scenes, some prep work on the site

    In a frenzy of reading source code, I reconfigured this site to use an external stylesheet. This will allow me to experiment with a variety of different stylesheet tricks to achieve various effects.

    The idea that I can exercise more control over the elements on this page is just too attractive to let go of. I will make it work, and it’ll look damned cool.

  • Books, TV, computer games?

    When I was building this website, I tried to come up with better channel definitions than I had used on the old Zero site. In terms of Media Reviews, the only viable category was Books, so that was carried over while the other Media channels were dropped.

    This time around I’ve added TV and Games, and the next time I actually see a movie in the theater you can be sure I’ll add a Movies category. In the meantime, feel free to peruse the one existing entry under Games: Links LS 1999.

  • Prototypical Journal Entry #823-B

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  • A whirled of possibilities

    Every now and then someone decides to really take an idea and run with it, just to show how it can be done. In this case, Daily CSS Fun is a project devoted to showcasing how really, really good layout can be achieved entirely through Cascading Style Sheets manipulation. More to the point, how the exact same HTML document can be displayed in a dizzying variety of ways simply by modifying the linked stylesheet.

    I know how I’m spending my February allotment of geekery: ripping apart this guy’s stylesheets!
    placenamehere meets neuralust

  • Because little green men WANT to be found

    Are we alone in the universe? Maybe, maybe not, but one of the biggest, coolest computing projects known to mankind is still running strong. That’s right, I’m talking about the SETI@Home project!

    And what makes it cool to me? Well, other than all the cool astronomy and other science involved, it’s that they generate little certificates for processing milestones… like this one.

    Now don’t you wish you were as cool as I?