The power just went out. Down goes my Net connection and with it access to a growing number of essential tools. I use Termium, a Web-based terminology database for translators, as well as a number of online reference tools. Then there’s online banking, Google Maps, my blog admin tool and the list goes on…
At times like this, I’m happy to have a laptop with a couple of fully-charged batteries. I’m also happy that I haven’t switched to VoIP. At least the landline still works. And I can still get my email on my Treo.
All of this makes me think how dependent on electricity our modern society has become. The more networked we get, the more everything grinds to a halt when the current stops flowing.
I’ve been fooling around with a few different WP layout themes. I really like the design of Blix. I also like the airy feel of Gentle Calm which you can see in action at Alex King’s Theme Browser.
But the winner so far is K2. I haven’t done more than pop the hood for a quick peek at the mechanics, but it seems to have a lot going for it: powerful, sleek, and feature-rich. And it can only get better because it’s still in beta.
Most of all, it’s designed for WP 2.0 so my mileage should be good. I haven’t run across any other themes that claim that, but it’s still relatively early in the game, I guess.
That said, I’m sure I’ll end up tweaking the look of the standard interface as I work my way up the PHP/CSS learning curve that is beginning to look like K2’s namesake.
After a stalled debut earlier this year, Voices in the Fog finally emerges. The reason for the delay is pretty silly, really: I wanted to post thumbnails from flickr and first needed to adjust the Cascading Style Sheets so that there would be a border around them. Up until now, I’ve never had to tinker with CSS, so I kept putting it off thinking it would be more complicated that it actually is…
So what, exactly, is a “blurry blog”? Quite simply, it’s a blog without a focus. Sacrilegious, I know. The blog seers maintain that you should have some sort of angle, some kind of unique approach, a taxonomic territory you lay sole claim to.
You’ll find none of that here. I am deliberately ignoring the accepted wisdom of blogdom. This will be an experiment in unfocused frivolity, errant musings, and loosely-connected observations.
So damn the CSS and full steam ahead!