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Month August 2005

Apple’s Inconsistent Buttons

Apple Buttons

The buttons in OS X have gone through a couple of revisions over the years. IMHO, the current look is the best — clean and graceful without getting in the way.

Apple displays graphic buttons on their web site, so even non-Safari users can enjoy their lovely button stylings, but they seem to have fallen behind the times in some places. I think the button on the left is an example of what buttons looked like in Jaguar, and the button on the right matches what I’m seeing in Tiger.

Just a minor observation — I know how hard it can be to keep track of all your image assets.

TV Board Games: Oh So Craptacular

TV Board Games: Knight RiderFor some reason I have a minor collection of board games based on TV shows from the 70s and 80s. I took these (bad) photos of them a few years ago, and figured why not stick them on Flickr. Check out the set.

UW Madison — Hearty Partiers

So, it turns out that the Princeton Review has named UW Madison the number one Party School in the country.

I’m not an alumnus, but I am originally from Madison, and have worked with the UW theater department, and have gone to my small share of campus parties. I’m not surprised it’s on the list, but number one? They must have been stepping it up since last I lived there.

Keep it up!

Blogging in the Rain

I’m sitting on my porch and the rain just started to bucket down. It’s very welcome, since the humidity has been at about 100% all weekend.

Mike and I have just won a fairly ambitous new project… It’s both exciting and scary, but I’m totally confident that we can get it done, and with some help, build a truly best-of-breed site. I won’t tell you what it is for now, but it’s going to be very, very cool. And it will look great. :)

I do have something I want to put out there though — I wish my ask.mefi week-long limit was up, but I’ll post it later and link to it, since no one will read it here.. this post can just remind me to ask the question later in the week.

So — I’m going to be stretching MT‘s capabilities as much as I can for this new project. I’d like to know which plugins you have found helpful in the past. I know the pagination plugin is going to be helpful to me, and dirify plus is likely to come in handy, but I want more. I need to break boundaries and expand the abilities of the editors. I have lots of ideas, but I don’t want to miss anything, so pass them along.

BTW: Don’t try to sell me on WordPress — I obviously already know about it (and love it), but MT has features that are deal-breakers for this project.

Thanks in advance.

Orisinal.com – A Dog For All Seasons

There’s a new game up at the ever-beautiful Orisinal.com. Graphics, gameplay and music — these games are best-of-breed flash.

» Orisinal.com – a dog for all seasons