Honey, I accidentally redesigned the blog! 3 Aug 201122 Jun 2018 Oh well. I was playing with WordPress design templates and I clicked the wrong button. Now I have this rather clean design, but I can’t fix the banner because Illustrator CS2 no longer runs on OS X Lion. When I get a new copy I’ll rework it to suit the size of the template. If you notice something missing apart from my sanity, let me know. Administrative
Administrative Technical problem 19 Jun 201122 Jun 2018 Is anyone else seeing this? If so, leave a note. Reader Shawn Hamman gets it and I’m trying to track down the problem. Read More
Administrative I get email 15 Mar 2011 Only one of the very many things I share with PZ Myers (apart from the success, the job, the handsomeness, the youth, and the Trophy Wife™) is that occasionally I get emails from crackpots. When you get an email whose Subject line is Fw: Tidal Wave Hit Japan and Alaska… Read More
Administrative Wilkins en route… 19 Jul 2007 So I’m off to the Mother Country on Saturday my time. Anyone in London who wants to meet for dinner on Sunday or Monday nights, drop me an email before I fly off… Read More
FYI, you can run Snow Leopard in a virtual machine on Lion. (As far as I know, that’s legal, since you’re still running a Mac OS on Apple hardware.) Then you can run Illustrator on the virtualized Snow Leopard, though it’ll probably be kind of slow. Two questions: 1) Why upgrade to Lion before checking if you have any PowerPC apps that you still use? I thought it was pretty well known that Rosetta was not in OS X Lion. 2) Why do you even need Illustrator? Sure, it’s a useful tool for professionals, but it’s expensive overkill for a web banner of a blog. If I were in your place, I probably would have used GIMP, Inkscape, or some cheapo shareware.
I used Illustrator professionally for many years. I know it and can use it easily. I didn’t think I’d need to use it for a while, when I upgraded.
Virtually every time I’ve fooled with the template at my blog, I’ve screwed it up. Which is why I came up with the excuse that I’m striving for classic simplicity.
I like the new look. Much cleaner, much cooler, much hipper. Maybe I’ll understand more of what some people write here now I can read it more easily.
It’s very, uh, bright. Light and bright. If I was reading this on something really small, I could use it as a flashlight (you upsidedowny folks probably say torch).
I quite like the nice and clean new default WordPress theme (Twenty Eleven). I have adapted with a few tweaks for one of my other blogs: http://lifesgrandeur.com/