Nonliteral: The Remix

Well, it’s time to take the wraps off the new layout here—I’m sure everyone will agree that it’s quite a change from the previous one.

It’s been over a year since I started this site, with the old layout, and it was time for a change.  In addition to just a change of look to something hopefully a little less cluttered and crufty, I wanted to accomplish a few things with this new layout.

First, it’s as close to a “pure CSS” layout as I’m likely to get—there are no tables on the site, other than those inserted by Google Adwords. 

Second, I wanted to improve the site’s cross-browser look and feel.  There are still a few things I’m shaking out (and will be for some time, probably), but hopefully this site renders more or less consistently among all of the v5 and up browsers, and is at least usable on PIE and Netfront (it looks pretty good on Netfront in 640 x 480 landscape, in fact).

Third, I wanted to adhere as much as possible to strict XHTML and CSS validation.

I think we’re at a good ‘first cut’—I’d welcome any feedback on issues, etc. 

A few notes—if you’re looking for the most recent articles and comments, they’ve been moved to the Archive page—select “Archive” from the menu above.  The blogroll has been expanded and updated, and moved to a separate links page (select “links” from the right).

Things will probably be a little shaky over the next few days as I fine tune a few remaining issues.  Please excuse the dust, and let me know what you think!

Stump The Band

A loyal reader (and they’d have to be, given my diminished posting output lately) e-mailed me puzzled as to what the picture below (on the 19th) was…

…which seemed like a good excuse for a contest or competition (please folks, no wagering!)

The object(s) pictured are obscure enough that it’ll take a bit of puzzling through to figure out, but some of the answers might be entertaining… Anyone up for a try?

(Click on the “X Comments” link above to read guesses or place your own)

The original ‘Steamboat Willy’ and a cardboard box

This site as a poem, courtesy of “Rob’s Amazing Poem Generator”:http://cmdrtaco.net/poemgen.cgi

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Miscellaneous Updateture…

This is just a general “state of the blog” note—I’ve made lots of changes visible recently; please feel free to leave comments on this post if you have thoughts regarding any of them…

Look and feel is somewhat improved with the addition of the “Smartypants”:http://mt-plugins.org/archives/entry/smartypants.php “DoubleSpace”:http://mt-plugins.org/archives/entry/doublespace.php and “Textile 2.0 (beta)”:http://www.bradchoate.com/past/001602.php plugins for MovableType. These are responsible for curly quotes, giving me back my whitespace between sentences (what can I say; I’m old school), and adding some nifty simplified markup to posts, respectively.  The body font was changed because “comic sans” looked goofy with smart quotes. 

The “related posts” feature on individual entry pages, which sometimes gives some odd results, has been joined by a “related posts from WayPath”:http://www.waypath.com/mt/archives/000014.html feature which also sometimes gives some odd results, just odd results from elsewhere.  Sometimes they’re insightful, other times they’re just amusing, but they always tend to be interesting.

Basic integration of “Gallery”:http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php into the site to serve as an “image gallery”:http://www.nonliteral.com/gallery is complete; now I’ve got to add some more pictures.  At least it brightens up the pages a little.

Last but not least, this is a test post being made from the new “SharpMT 1.1 beta 2”:http://www.randyrants.com/archives/000253.asp posting tool for MovableType… It seems to support all of the extended MovableType fields, but I can’t seem to find a spellcheck yet… It definately looks like it’s moving in the right direction, however.

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John Perry Barlow on the war

John Perry Barlow weighs in on the war.  (via Adam Curry) His earlier comments have been making the rounds for awhile.

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