NVinNYC

I liked the layout of the old theme but I was really getting tired of the white: I’ve been wanting to switch to a darker background for a while. I finally did it this morning, and I decided to switch the secondary color from blue to a mild green as an experiment. I also redesigned the look of the header so that it matched in color, but it was still missing that personal element. I liked the burned outline of the Empire State Building from before but wanted to try something a little different this time (and I had lost some of the artwork assets for that anyway). So I used some satellite footage of Columbia from the new Mac beta version of Google Earth (which is really cool but seems to have been pulled from availability). I interpolated this with the background slightly differently than before and I’m not yet sure which look I like better…

Anyway, leave me your thoughts, comments, and suggestions about the new look.

Update: I threw in a color-coordinated RSS badge (check the bottom of the sidebar) stolen and modified from Command-Tab. If you can actually see it on the page and wouldn’t have known I modified the them without this post then you aren’t using RSS. So I must ask you: why do you actually visit my site instead of making you computer check it automatically? Seriously, get a news reader, you’ll thank me. On Mac OS X get NetNewsWire or NewsFire, on PC get FeedDemon since you can sync it with NetNewsWire (or at least will be able to soon).

I’ve been going through my old Blogger powered site (check it out here) and transferring the old posts over to this new blog. There’s a big gap between my last post on my old blog (the last one was on February 16th) and starting this site, so some of the posts might not be as relevant anymore. If you do want to browse through them however you can do a search or check the monthly archives links on the page sidebar. Enjoy.

Welcome to my new WordPress powered blog. Thanks to Columbia University’s firewall and (lack of?) NAT setup, I’m able to host this thing on my beautiful PowerMac G5. Complete control with no hosting costs or uploading. Unfortunately, this means I’m still figuring out the kinks in the Apache installation that comes built right into Mac OS X. So consider everything In Transition or, as Google Labs calls everything new it does, Beta. Some good resources I’ve found to help me so far are MacZealot’s Guide to Installing WordPress on Tiger (they also have a MoveableType Install Guide there for you MT fans) and Petrik de Heus’ guide to Getting mod_rewrite to work on Mac OS X for that confusing “.htaccess” file stuff, which I still don’t really understand myself. Anyway, I hope you like the new format and expect to see some changes in the coming days and weeks (but hopefully not months).