Vlog #2 February 28

Personal Life 4 Comments

In the latest edision of my boring vlog series, you get to hear my talk about... books! I go through my entire book collection that should really be read, but in reality I'm only a third of the way done. You get to see me in a new setting, my room. Also featured is half my face being dark due to no light hitting it (though I completely screw up saying that sentence in the video).

Oh, and I totally agree with Clem on Vimeo choosing the worst preview images.

I think I may change the setting on my camera to record in a better quality because the current quality is OK.

Café Theme February 27

Updates 11 Comments

I have semi-arbitrarily chosen the name "Cafe" to this design because that's the first thing that came to my mind while I was picking the colors and designing the header. Reds and browns always seem to remind me of coffee for some reason. You should check out this amazing picture of espresso foams.

I've finally decided to return to two column layouts... at least for this design. Single column layouts have their advantages, but I needed a change. The sidebar gives me a place to put things. Too bad I don't have anything to put there. Any ideas of what to put there? I have all my social media links, along with recent and related posts (when you're viewing a single entry).

I don't know how familiar you are with IconDock, but they have supplied me with my social media icons and my comment design is totally based off of theirs. There is no hiding it. The only difference is that mine doesn't use any images, pue CSS.

Overall I'm quite happy with this design. It uses some of my favorite colors in a shiny web 2.0 way. Let's hope it can stay up for a while. Maybe if I get tired of it I will just change the colors and/or fonts around to keep myself content.

I'm going to try and get a vlog up tomorrow. Hope I'm not too lazy and actually wake up at 7 o'clock!