I’m back from Vancouver and I picked up an external terabyte to store the fotos. I shot just under fifty gigs, and I have approx. three free on my main machine — time to step my game up.
Thanks go out to Dr. Z, his USB SD card reader, and his desktop box for providing temporary storage 
After the raws are off the camera I’ll export the whole whack in a Lightroom HTML gallery and post the link, then get to processing them down to just the good ones.
Oh, right: I forgot I had a CafePress account! Coming to you live from the intercloud: The MentalPolyphonics Store!
Featuring: “NO THANKS FUCK! U! WHORE”-branded women’s/children’s/men’s/pet’s apparel, tote bags, travel mugs, stuffed animals, wall clocks, buttons, stickers, yard signs, aprons, water bottles, HD video cameras, and lots more!
Get hate-mail EMBLAZONED on YOU — TODAY!
PS — This is good therapy: no-one is scared of CafePress!
I’m prototyping a new site for my company, SIN, to be released and sent out to clients shortly. I’ve put it up here to test. If you could comment on it that’d be great. Refresh a couple of times — it’s dynamic, using the same code as our rotating 404s to pick a background (one of which you might recognize) under the lightly-alpha’d content layer.
The background images are resizing poorly (they have resolution problems), but I’m working on it. I’m more interested in your take on the minimalism of it — I’m thinking of doing something very similar for MPF eventually.
The links won’t work either, but you’ll get an idea of my business lines
Try resizing the site — it shouldn’t break.
To-test: IE, iPhone, other platforms. Let me know if you see something busticated on your viewing platform, and if you could include a screenshot that’d help. Special thanks to Geoff for testing on Fox under Linux and over his projector.
I’m adding the Google Analytics bug to the site again to get an idea of our traffic. I just submitted the B-Rhymes interview to BB and I want to see what happens.
I’m testing a full-custom theme here. It’s alpha — ie, broke as heck and ugly — but that’s where construction is happening.
I’ve only tested it on OSX/Safari, so no guarantees it’ll look at all reasonable to you.
Instead of redirecting our feeds to Atom I added some images and code to randomize and beautify (?) our 404 error page.
It’s all automagic, so if you…
A. Take an image of something 404-ish,
B. Have upload access, and
C. Drop it into /images/404
… then it’ll be added to the rotation with no other setup. The shots currently spinning are some 404s I’ve spotted around town in the last 24 hours. Keep refreshing a broken link to see both.
Those of you who read on-site can refresh for a new theme. The arrows on the “Comments” sidebar now work correctly.
Friday the 13th — oh noes!
I’m taking two online university courses this term while I work full time:
I’ll probably write blog posts less often. I am keeping an eye out for course content that’s worth sharing, as I have done in the past.
Design should bring joy, so hit refresh a couple of times to download our new stylesheet.
I worried that the color scheme of the blog was depressing people: Blues in Summer! What was I thinking?!
Anyway, that ends… Now! Orange creamsicle’d!
Continuing the shitshow, WordPress 2.8.3 had a vulnerability that allowed attackers to reset users’ passwords. From some random site:
We noticed a security vulnerability in Wordpress 2.8.3 yesterday (and earlier versions as well) that allowed an attacker to reset passwords of users. While this vulnerability could not be exploited to gain access to the user account (unless access to the email account the password was send [sic] to was available as well) it could be used to annoy those users especially when combined with an automated script that would reset the password every seconds or minutes.
It turns out that we were a subject of just such an attack sometime in the last few hours. If you can’t get in, let me know.
We’ve updated to 2.8.4. This is another tick in the “Drupal” column I keep in my head.