Book #3 of the Swords and Fire series is typically fun and satisfying.
Entries for #3
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Randomized color choices in SASS
For a bit of variety, I decided to figure out how to generate a new front page header background and link colors whenever I rebuilt the blog (new posts, etc). This is still a static site, so no wizzy javascript stuff, I just wanted to do it in SASS.
This is what I came up with.
```sass $colors-list: ( // background color, link color #DAE076 #AD5C55 #A9C9C5 #4A676D #AD5C55 #5E7D68 #374768 #718A8A, ); $color-index: random(length($colors-list));
// Header description box
$colors: nth($colors-list, $color-index);
$header-desc-background-color: nth($colors, 1);
// Link color
$link-color: nth($colors, 2);
```
I may rework this as a map (dictionary) later on so I can add other theme-y things, but it was kinda fun to work out for now.
Just saw twin teen sisters riding a tandem bike, the trailing one texting with both hands while the other steered #2013
Christophe Ducamp posted about a recommendation for a French variation on POSH: CHIC, or'Code HTML Intrinsèquement Classe', which I think roughly translates to "Instrinsically Classy HTML Code". (Idea from Stéphane Gigandet) Sounds good to me!
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
(My French is over 15 years old, so if I screwed up the "Êtes-Vous" will someone please correct me?)
What\'s Old is New Again - About This Site
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I've finally updated my about page, with some new information, hcard marked-up content, and (for posterity's sake) a copy of my first about page ever.
Circulation Plunges at Major Newspapers - Save On Home Delivery!
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Ethan Kaplan at BlackRimGlasses has a post up about the major newspaper losing circulation. Feedburner (I think) thought they'd be funny with the feed ads, and this is what I saw in Google Reader a few minutes ago:
Dual-boot Mac/Intel boxes, cont'd
Jim Roepcke took me to task for my previous comment about dual-booting an Intel-based Mac with Windows. I said:
Peggy Noonan - The Blogs Must Be Crazy
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Peggy Noonan - The Blogs Must Be Crazy. She makes a ton of good points, for example:
>In newspapers you have to go to the editor, explain to him why the paper should have another piece on the Eason Jordan affair, spend a day reporting it, only to find that all that's new today is that reporter Michelle Malkin got an interview with Barney Frank. That's not enough to merit 10 inches of newspaper space, so the Times doesn't carry what the blogosphere had 24 hours ago. In the old days a lot of interesting information fell off the editing desk in this way. Now it doesn't.
This is an inspiring article. Thanks Seth! (Oh, and Dave too.)
R.E.M. - Around The Sun
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The iTunes Music Store has a 3 minute montage of track snippets from R.E.M's upcoming album, Around The Sun. I can't wait.
>Get a free taste of R.E.M's new album, Around The Sun, with an iTunes-exclusive album sampler. This world premiere, "Around The Sun Redux," packs snippets of "Leaving New York," "Around The Sun," "Wanderlust," "Electron Blue," and "I wanted to Be Wrong" into one 3-minute melodic treat. Get it while it's hot, only on iTunes.
The album is due for release Oct. 4-5.
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I've updated our adoption How To Help page with a link to a language CD Jodi and I are interested in:
Bill on Longhorn
Bill has some good comments on Microsoft's acknowledgement that Longhorn is not going to ship until 2006.
Argh!! NBC finally kills the last reason to turn to channel 12, as they remove #39;Boomtown' from their lineup. Boomtown was my best reason to watch TV, actually tied with CBS's
When You Talk Back, The Terrorists Win
BIll points us to this bit of absurdity from Donald Rumsfeld.