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Tastic — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:36:37 +0000

I turned on Akismet and opened the comments up to all instead of just users. I figured that registering just to make a comment is a pain. The previous policy was only there to control spam, but that’s what plugins like Akismet are for.

I’ll still keep a tight reign over the comments, so I reserve the right to remove comments that are off-topic, offensive, or are overly-argumentative.

Flames & Rants

Finishing the Fight [Updated]

Tastic — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:40:56 +0000

Halo 3 really sunk its teeth into me. I wasn’t interested in it before launch, but after playing it a little at a friend’s place, I became a fanatic for the series. After a long stretch of gaming, this subsided and I could once again function normally.

Well, the bastards are sinking me back in this weekend since I just learned about a goal to make seven billion kills in the campaign by July 7. Bungie keeps a running count of confirmed kills in campaign, and at wowunited.net they have this nifty stats page. I ran through the campaign on normal last night and this morning. I’ll undoubtedly do it at least once more before Monday. I’d also encourage anyone out there to do the game.

Guns & Ammo

Update: Bungie Day has come and passed. Didn’t make the seven billion goal, but it was a valiant effort. I checked the count with a little less than 30 minutes before it ran out and the kill count was an impressive 6.951,005,525. Also, that nifty stats page wasn’t meant to be viewed after the countdown, so the numbers got a little funny.

Revised First Post

Tastic — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:34:35 +0000

Just to drop a quick note, I updated my first post to have a different title and link. There was originally going to be a naming convention for posts that I ultimately decided against. So I thought it might be good to pretend it never happened.

In other news, I’m considering a few more theme changes and will likely get hung up on a few of them before posing anything else “real”. A few things like text sizes and column widths could be adjusted. I’ll post more when I implement them.

Cowboys & Indians

Theme

Tastic — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:02:30 +0000

I’ve been working on the theme for the site over the last month, and I think it’s finally at a state that I can start posting some content.
The look was designed mostly around Apple’s Safari web browser, so I took advantage of some of the features available in it.
I plan on making a few changes over the next few months to make the look consistent everywhere, but it is usable enough for the moment.

A TODO file in the theme lists the following:

Search bar: I’m not sure I like the look of this yet, and the image could use some improvement
Logo: the site does not have one
Borders: Safari rounds and shadows well, but it would be good to find a more cross-browser approach like border images
Images: the images could use some work, the pinstripes don’t scale well and some of the gradients could be smoother
Image Format: choose jpegs at first, consider switching to pngs

The theme itself is available for download on the Downloads page.

If you have any suggestions or improvements to the style sheet that you would like to suggest, please do so in the comments for this and future posts regarding the theme.
You will need to register a username with the site for make comments.

Puppies & Kittens

Salutations

Tastic — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:35:05 +0000

Welcome to my humble blog. I’m starting to play around with it to see if it’ll work out for me. I’ve been feeling the need to start a site. I’ve also been lazy, so whatever is quickest will likely be my solution. I’ll be messing around with the format a bit until I get something I like. Expect changes.

Hugs & Kisses