←
→

inverted design

Filed Under Category Apple and Macs, Site Stuff by titanium

It was a dark dark night. I was awake. The white from white web pages was glaring in my eyes. Then I remembered. Control + Option + Apple + 8. This nifty key combination inverts the colours of the monitor. (Thanks to lifehacker for pointing this out sometime.) Oh, and sorry other computer users- as far as I know, this is apple only.

Firefox 3 looks great in colour inversion, and iTunes isn’t bad either. I had a giggle looking around my regular pages, and noticed that some looked good either way (the aforementioned lifehacker and facebook isn’t bad) and some websites turned from a serious good looking site to a silly or not-fitting colour. Photos, of course, look really weird.

This brings me to an announcement- I’ve tweaked my web page colours again- now it looks nice when inverted. The content box colour was a horrible puke-like green before.

What do you think? Is the ultimate design problem choosing colours that go well when inverted? Do my new colours look weird on your monitor? Let me know in the comments. Go on, don’t be shy!

[that gross puke colour I was talking about.]

An After Thought. I took a screenshot and inverted the colours so those of you without the cool ctrl+opt+cmd+8 key combo can see what I’m talking about. I also inverted the old colour so you can see why I changed.

[a screenshot of this website with the colours inverted.]

June 27, 2008 | |

COMMENTS

writing makes me happy.

Filed Under Category Randomness, Site Stuff by titanium

Last night I sat down to write a blog post about Peru, so I don’t need to keep emailing people who are interested in the information. (I will post this when it’s ready.) As I typed, I realised something that I had forgotten. Writing makes me happy.

Oh, I know I’m busy at the moment, and blogging just isn’t something that I can devote a large chunk of time to when deadlines are looming and the work just keeps piling on. (You know how they say “living out of a suitcase”? Well, what they really mean is living with everything you own strewn around the room because there isn’t room to leave everything in your suitcase and still get to it. ) But I am going to make an effort to write more. I even have a to do list of blog posts I would like to write/finish, and I hope to have a little bit more time for the site in the near future.

So, I’m not dead, and neither is this website. Stay tuned!

June 26, 2008 | |

COMMENTS

paper blogged poetry

Filed Under Category Poetry by titanium

This blog post was originally written on paper, and since I’ve been cleaning up (to move out) I found it, so here you go, some poetry from a few months ago.

caffeine fueled poetry
I’m awake.
lying in my bed, cannot sleep.
tunes bopping in my ears,
this old pencil and index card won’t let me down
scrawling in the half light
brain still buzzing
it’s caffeine
and it’s fun.

Lack of Sleep
insomnia is a harsh word.
it means that my world is reduced to this pool of light
for my eyes resist the silence of the night
I lie here in my bed
and my mind takes flight.

(untitled)
my body decides
this hole it made, doesn’t want
so I roll over
caffeine
tends to unleash
and turn on
the (bad) poetry tap
in my mind
so it flows

Thoughts? As always, comments are very welcome, and so are suggestions of what to write about via the skribit widget!

June 16, 2008 | |

COMMENTS