Monthly Archives: July 2007

SF – Day 2.1

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Sitting in Union Square before 8am with a coffee and wifi was very cool. Have been told it is cold in SF so when wandering around with Donncha I buy a jacket/hoodie type thing. Sun promptly shines brightly. Met Charles Stricklin of WordPress Podcast fame(who I’ve chatted to in #wordpress for ages), met Lorelle, John Dvorak, Demitrius and Toni (again) from Automattic, Aaron Brazell and Mark Jaquith at cafe/bookstore across from Pier 38 for I think it was close to 3hrs of WP discussion. Donncha took a few pics. And now it’s close to 6pm and we are back at the Pier with laptops open. While Andy and Barry play pool.

SF – Day 1

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The clock on the laptop says Friday 0600 but it’s really 10pm here in a slightly breezy SF. Scary takeoff at Heathrow. Very bumpy immediately after lift-off, plane dipped/dropped – not turned – to one side which was odd. Worst take-off I’ve had. Uneventful from there really.
And now I’ve met Maya who I briefly met last year, Joseph Scott, Alex Shiels and Nikolay Bachiyski who are new to the company, tomorrow Demetrius and from there it’s a pre-WordCamp day followed by 2 days of the event itself. Hopefully the current sleep overdraft will not need fulfilling until next week some time.

Minus several, plus one.

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Too many domains and not the one I want. So I try emailing the people who do have the domain I want and get no reply. I note they removed their contact info from the ad-laden page at the domain. So my hopes are low. I head off to Namecheap and rashly buy the .us version and then realise that a country which has every which way of finding out anything will not let me hide my identity using Whoisguard.
It’s not that I’m nuts about privacy because there are plenty enough clues in this blog to lead you to my front door, but I’m not having a call with a “Hey I’ve a problem with my blog…”. I could fake the telephone / address / name etc but that’s no solution really. So the .us domain will sit there for 12 months, go into redemption and then be freed. I’ll not use it.
I grabbed another domain though – have too many so buy yet another .. there’s no logic at all there – and that will be used for what Scuttle is currently used for. I keep trying to make changes to scuttle and it keeps breaking so the /s directory will go as I move things away. I did install gelato first but then adding a first entry blanked it and I needed to reinstall. Halfway through that I figured that was enough hassle and maybe something so young wasn’t for me right then. So I have WP installed instead. As I would.

So I have several domains for sale. 3 of which are the com/net/org for the name. 1 is suitable for porn (I think), the others…. they were for a project that I wanted to launch, I paid for the code and then that person promptly screwed me over by not delivering. Nice. It’s not even hard code. If the urge to do the project strikes again before I get an offer (IF I get an offer) I’ll see what I can do. All it consists of is inserting data into a db. That’s it. The getting out in some sort of order would be nice but that comes at the end. Well.. it’s not quite that easy but it’s not far off.
So the domains all redirect to shimmerstudio and I wait to see what happens. I reckon people will go to url’s they want as much as trawl any of the ‘domains for sale’ sites – maybe I should list them somewhere…

Itchy calves

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I took Winston for a long walk yesterday along a route we hadn’t done for a while. I was wearing shorts. In parts we had to creep under bramble, step over nettles / brambles, walk through long grass, around corn fields. Was a good walk. And my legs got a fair amount of tiny cuts and scratches. It woke me last night with itching and tonight I have odd blisters on both legs. Itch like crazy. Not funny at all. Not really sure what I can do apart from not scratch – which is impossible. Weird that it’s blistering though – not had that before.
And apart from that I’ve felt like crap all day. Unconnected with the above. Just crap.

Cleaner styling

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Finally got round to ridding the css of stupidly long selectors, tidying up the css, removing duplicate stuff and changing to 2 fonts in a more uniform way. Not that it matters so much looking at it but it’s been bugging me for ages. It’s in proper sections now too. I don’t think I’ve anything bad left in there – I just checked an it even validates. Not that that means a whole lot. Maybe I should switch the sidebar font’s around though it could look odd. The top of the sidebar jars a bit – thought needed there. The h2 in the sidebar could do with being a little less heavy but otherwise I don’t thing it’s too bad – and not curve in sight :)

Coda. I was using Coda. Many many times it said it had uploaded the changed CSS. But what it had done was deleted the old css first and completely forgotten to write the new css. Filesize 0. Verified each time with Transmit. Not the most useful of things to happen.