August 2008 Archive
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The Promotion (2008)
Bit slow, only mildly amusing, disappointing.
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Matt Brett’s awesome redesign
If you haven’t already you should definitely go and check out Matt Brett’s awesome redesign. Its been in the works for quite a while, and is a worthy successor to his previous design “Back in black”. I really like the use of all the transparent pngs, gives the whole thing an extra dimension. Read about it here.
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Kung Fu Panda (2008)
As cool as the animated kung-fu fighting animals are, it just felt like it was missing something, don’t know what though.
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Jack, Meet Ethan. Ethan? Jack.
First recap post on my LOST blog for nearly a month, kind of got sidetracked redesigning this site over the past few weeks. Only 3 more of the “Missing Pieces” to review and then I can get back to the full episode recaps I was doing for Season 4, plus continue the “rewatching” that I started nearly a year ago, I think I was almost to the end of Season 1, not sure though. I’ll also post any interesting bits (not many so far) from this year’s Lost ARG that is running in between season 4 and 5. Until then Keep Reading →
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Fluency Admin 1.2.1
Please not that Fluency 1.x is only compatible with blogs running WordPress 2.6.5 or older. Please use Fluency 2 for blogs running WP 2.7+
As some of you noticed, I neglected to pay appropriate attention to the “press this” styles when I released v1.2, the page was still usable but things clearly weren’t how they should have been. This update fixes that, I’ve added the necessary styles to Fluency to give “press this” the same feel as the rest of the admin.
I’ve also fixed up a couple of other things that were pointed out to me such as how the sidebar was overlapping the ‘activate theme’ lightbox when using Fluency together with Ozh’s Admin Drop Downs plugin, thanks to Ozh for posting a solution in the comments before I’d even had a chance to look at it. You might also notice that I’ve reinstated the border radius on some of the buttons. I originally removed these in v1.0 because of how bad the border radius looked in Firefox 2, but that has now been fixed in Firefox 3 so the border radius love can return.
The next big step for Fluency will be to get it working with the current WordPress trunk for 2.7, which includes yet another redesign/reorganisation of the admin. It will most likely mean start almost from scratch for the next version, but since the new admin for 2.7 is set out a LOT like Fluency by default (coincidence ???) it should be a fairly simple process. I’ll keep you all posted.
Enough talk, go and grab the update!
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
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Sunrise, sunset
Although this theme may have been re-written from the ground up leaving few remnants of the “zipper” theme that I’ve been running for the last 7 months (its had a few touch-ups during that time), I’m not thinking of this as a complete redesign, its more of a refinement or evolution with some tricks thrown in. And hopefully its going to be a bit quicker too, since I’ve spent a fair amount of time cleaning things up to try and reduce load times.
Keep reading to find out how and why I made some of the bigger changes, as well as a few things that I still haven’t completely finished. I might even let you know about some other things I’m working on
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Out with the recent, in with the new
Well looky here, its all a bit different isn’t it. I’m thinking of this as an evolution more than a total redesign, but that hasn’t stopped me rebuilding some sections from scratch for example the archives and the new download archives. Oh and Captain Planet is back too. I’ll go into more detail about all that and more tomorrow, because I seriously need some sleep…this upgrade took way longer than originally planned.
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Wanted (2008)
If you want crazy stunts, graphic violence, and a bucket load of “bullshit”-moments, this is the movie for you.
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