• 17:45 I can has birthday naow? (Ok, me = dork = accounting for timezones here.) #
• 18:49 @ BZedan Let it not be said that the von Strangehours clan has no sense of accuracy. Anyway my birthday hat isn't done yet so no festivities. #
• 00:09 @ BZedan I love it when a plan comes together. #
• 00:15 @ BZedan Do not speak to me of embroidering right now. I ( Read more... )

• 20:00 Twitter now crashes Safari? OH HELL NO. Flailing noises of someone who cannot be bothered to switch everything to other browsers ensues, &c. #
• 20:01 (I have opened up Firefox for the express purpose of saying oh hell no. Do not make me make this a habit, Twitter.) #
• 15:28 She Said With Misplaced Optimism: Blasting klezmer and acoustic ( Read more... )

Well bust my legs and call me Shorty! Make Magazine's blog has a nice little write-up of the upcoming Futures of the Past interactive showcase. Ok, I shouldn't be so surprised since they're one of the sponsors, but still. Thanks to Mr. vonslatt for pointing this out.

For everyone who can't be there, you can take a gander at my portfolio site where I've ( Read more... )

I probably ought to have said, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain," but by now I've finished my tinkerings, making it a moot point. Shiny new journal layout borrowed from thefulcrum and bent to my whim both css-wise and graphics-wise by myself. At the moment I'm not entirely pleased with the sidebar bullet points and the top portion of the ( Read more... )

Gadzooks!

I've finally managed to reformat the kameraphone gallery and add the backlog of the last two years. I AM UNSTOPPABLE.

. . .

But first, I need to go make tea.

It can officially be declared summer because I'm undergoing all of the classic symptoms:

• waking up in the morning and feeling violently ill for no reason at all
• persistent and possibly fatal short-temperedness
• all-consuming lethargy with optional head-having-been-replaced-by-rocks
• total brain atrophy

It would have been nice to have more than a week to ( Read more... )

At last the website refurbishment is complete! Strange Hours Creative Design is now avaliable for your perusal, in a new lovely soothing shade of grey.

Your regularly scheduled program of fannish squee, epicurean discoveries, and icons will now resume.

(I am, however, slightly anxious about having so much Harry-Potter-derivative work on my ( Read more... )

I'm finally getting around to coding the rest of my site's new design, but I'm struck by this problem on my links page. Since I've last designed strangehours.com, the phenomena of tabbed browsing has arisen (and how). Now, the current links page links open in new windows. Since I've become accustomed to tabs, it irritates the hell out of me - but I ( Read more... )

Chrono and HomeSite were fighting for the crown
Chrono beat HomeSite all around the town.
Some gave them end tags, and some gave them Not Found;
Some gave them XML and drummed them out of the town.

*sigh*

the syllables never go the way i want them to. maybe i should be writing more haiku.

Cascading Style Sheets
fall into place, one by one
in the ( Read more... )

portfolio site now updated with photography gallery!!

why?

because i rulez!!!!11!finished coding about an hour ago. { yes. i code my webpages in simpletext. because i'm crazy like that. a shiny new icon to whoever finds a bug in it first . . . } which is no mean feat considering i killed my keyboard last night. thought i was going to have to go ( Read more... )