Valhalla Island

Through various sites I read daily it’s come to my attention that Falkner Winery ripped off Joyent and Cork’d, two very nicely designed websites.

Greg Storey wrote a (very, very good) post about it, Hivelogic wrote about the wine bottle rip off and also has a direct comparison on Flickr. Joyent have replied but do not appear to be taking it as hard as Greg.

Some people are saying they don’t think it’s a rip off at all and it’s a whole lot of fuss about nothing. I think it’s blatant plagarism.

I haven’t spoken about it here yet, I have on the Day Dream site. Day Dream has been added to wordpress.com, the highest honour a Wordpress theme can achieve. It’s chosen by the creators of Wordpress and the heads of Automattic. I spoke to Matt and he said after the first few days over 600 people were already using Day Dream.

If you don’t know how wordpress.com works you wouldn’t know that Day Dream is now instantly available to almost 400,000 blogs.

The Philadelphia Orchestra does it right

Trickle Theory

“The only people who say you shouldn’t burn bridges are the ones that live under them.”

From the Oreo CEO, Paul Scrivens.

“If everyone alive today was to get their 15 minutes of fame it would take 1700 centuries to complete.”

From Kiss and Tell by Alain De Botton

“Perfection is not when there’s nothing to add, but when there’s nothing to take away” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Google’s Secret

Twelve Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards

If you were to judge this book by it’s cover you’d think it’s a really good book.

Day Dream has been translated to Italian by a lovely Italian man named Fabio. Earlier in the year it was translated to German. It’s also currently being ported to the Symphony CMS (made by 21degrees in Brisbane) by a man named Clayton Ferris.

That people are able to take my software, edit it and change it to their needs and then re-release it to others that might benefit from the changes is the beauty of open source.

Mr and Mrs Bigger had a baby. Who was the biggest of the three?

The baby, because he was a little Bigger. Hilarious?

It’s early Spring and that means it’s that time of the year when two blankets at night is too much but one isn’t quite enough. When it’s a little warm with the window closed but a bit chilly with it open.

I was used to seeing UI errors like this in Windows but this is the first I’ve seen using Mac OS.

Brushed metal’s lost it

Pride, from 2001

Looking for love in all the wrong places

I love title case
It puts smiles on my face
Camel case doesn’t

Have trouble using a web browser? Rather not indulge the designer’s many hours spent creating the perfect mixture of the right typeface, colour and whitespace? Prefer the good old days when the internet was only able to serve text?

Then syndicate this site using RSS or it’s atomic super hero brother.

Did Mr Diet Pill really think this might get through the spam filter?

I got my computer back today, along with a mini-DVI to VGA connector. From the moment I plugged it in dual monitor spanning started and was running flawlessly. Opening display preferences opens a dialog on each screen, changing options on each screen affects just that screen. It doesn’t get much easier or more intuitive.

Spain mostly, although it’s so covered in dots there could also be some France and Portugal in there.

Not quite as big in Africa though.

My Mum is currently in a state of shock over Steve Irwin’s death. “It’s unbelievable” she keeps saying. While it’s very sad I think unbelievable is the last thing it is. The man spent his life jumping on, grabbing, holding and swimming with the world’s deadliest animals.

It might seem callous but is it a suprise that he died at the hands (or barbs) of one of those obviously deadly animals?

Because he died fimling for a TV show the whole thing was caught on camera. I heard this morning on the news that after the stingray’s barb went through his heart he actually pulled it out before being sent unconscious, now that’s amazing. He really was an amazing kind of person.

The first really great photo in a while from Low Resolution. I love the lighting and I knew it was worth keeping it on my daily reading list.

The other is another article from Internet Zillionaire and I know I link to just about every Zillionaire article but it’s all so good:

…colognes for men are even worse. We�re supposed to smell like abstract or philosophical concepts. Truth. Be. Eternity. All of these are actual Calvin Klein fragrances. I suppose it sounds better than �Gullible� or �Desperate� which is what you actually smell like.

Very funny.

It’s not real subtle but it doesn’t look as bad as what I expected and it’s definately readable now. Everyone I spoke to said “I love the design but… ” then something to do with barely being able to read anything. While I could read it, I can understand why people wouldn’t be able to. Now it’s changed and I hope people stop having trouble.