transmothraWhee! My latest reviews are up at The Chickenfish Speaks. I feel truly sorry for the lashing I gave one new age composer. The rest I’m pretty proud of.
You should check out The Chickenfish Speaks. It’s a great site with lots of cool stuff!
(I’m jeremy mutant, BTW.)
This is quite possibly the greatest thing the internet has come up with: Kirk and Spock: Closer (warning: completely NSFW). It’s a fan-made (T. Jonsey & Killa) slash-fiction remix/mashup of Star Trek: OS moving pictures, set to Nine Inch Nails‘ classic pants-creamin’ body-rocker “Closer”. It’s a music video with a silly, yet wholly erotic theme.
This is the culmination of all that is Great and Good about teh Interwebs! Finally, we can unplug our rigs and live wistfully happy, idyllic lives among nature now. It has happened. Utopia can start now k thx. The Interwebs has fulfilled its function. 42 my ass.
Well, it’s been taking forever, but finally!, my portfolio is online and pretty much more or less all (well, most) of those old dead sites are recreated and re-animated and essentially living again, albeit with synthetic blood this time around. Don’t look them too closely in the eyes, as there is no more soul in them as there is in an idiot, slack-jawed goldfish.
It’s been quite a learning experience… in fact, it really is amazing that i got away with such junk HTML in some of those sites. Actually, on the most prominent website i ever did, i actually used double-quotes within inline CSS. Which effectively turned off succeeding CSS rules, and invalidated the whole mess. It’s quite lucky, i’d guess, that anything worked at all in some cases.
There’s just a couple more sites to put up.
for now, until i get some, ahem, actual content up, i’ve at least managed to put some pictures on all the pages. (see menu, top)
…and now the site passes XHTML validation (with some few per-post errors)! i moved a couple things, added a copyright, changed the lists on the sidebar very slightly, and generally cleaned house.
i swear to “Bob” i will also eventually put content up under the new links (up top).
cleaning up the layout a little bit. no more yucky slowdown in IE: i figured out that IE doesn’t like to repeat a background image, at least one with transparency, too many times; so instead of using the smallest possible denominator of pixels to show a grid, i simply repeated the pattern within the image itself a few times. in this case, i changed the grid to vertical lines; but where i might have liked to use, say, 2×1 pixels to repeat across the element, i used something like 2×75 to reduce the overall repeats. not sure why this strange behavior isn’t better known or more widely documented, but i may have to experiment with it more in the future.
also fixed a couple of positioning errors on my part. the sidebar isn’t the most consistent, because some of my sections there have heading elements within list tags, while others don’t, possibly owing to different plugins having been created for different versions of WordPress, or for different themes, and so on.
I’ve re-positioned some elements (see navbar on top) and re-colored some text and images. Hopefully it will make the site more functional and readable, although there are still a few little bugs that i’m none too happy about. But until browsers are 100% standards compliant, i’ll have to learn to live with at least some bit of rendering lousiness. Some of it i can clean up and tweak; as for now, it’s off to bed with me. I’m too tired to make any links at the moment, so good night, and i hope you like the layout a little bit better.