New website design
So I made myself a new website design. It’s live on ianweller.org.
It’s based off of the 960 Grid System. I’m going to start distributing the WordPress theme after I clean up the code (a lot).
Comments appreciated.
This is how marketing is done
Note the tags. :P
By the way, the 2008 Creative Commons fundraising campaign is going on now. Go support a great cause, and tell others to do the same.
On a completely unrelated note, my colleague and I received first place at a debate tournament Tuesday night.
fedora-business-cards 0.2
I’ve released fedora-business-cards, the Fedora business card generator (aptly named, eh?) as version 0.2.
Tarball - Specfile and SRPM - git repository
This is a prerelease version; I don’t make any guarantees of its usability, functionality, or awesomeness. There are two known bugs: I haven’t written any new documentation, and letters with accent marks (such as “Máirín Duffy”) don’t show up properly in the MgOpen Moderna font. Both are being worked on.
I don’t plan to put it in Fedora until I get a tangible release, possibly with a graphical frontend (not highly necessary, though). Running
fedora-business-cards --help
after installing should help you get started; the CLI interface is pretty straightforward.
And yeah, you need a FAS account to create these.
The new US penny
Damn. Now I’m not going to be able to tell them apart from the rest of my coinage. >:(
(via East Bay Business Times)
Status report and a request for help
School is taking over my life, again. There’s one catch though — I’m actually enjoying this year. (whoa!)
My English teacher doesn’t suck. In fact, she’s one of the best teachers I’ve ever had, and it’s her first year of teaching.
So, with the increase of schooliness, a decrease in Fedoraness obviously goes down. Here’s my current list of works-in-progress, and if anyone wants to grab one of these and help me out immensely, that would be awesome.
{{needs love}} on ‘em, and they go in Category:Pages that need love. What I really need is a lot of someones to take a page in, give it some love and whatever it needs to succeed, and remove the {{needs love}} tag.Send me patches, I’ll give ya push access if I like ‘em. Remember that fuse-mediawiki is the potential future of bots for the Fedora Project wiki, and will also allow people to escape the <textarea>, so it’s a good thing for Fedora and the entire MediaWiki community.
So, if you feel like giving a little bit more to the Fedora community, this is a great way to do it — by helping a high school student feel more secure because things are taken care of. Let me know if you’re interested in any of these.
Today’s priorities
I’m still immensely tired, and recently I’ve been watching the Democratic National Convention, although it’s not really interesting me that much since they’re all still saying the same thing they’ve said for the past two weeks.
How to umount when the device is busy
Donncha O Caoimh brings us a way to unmount a device when it’s busy. I wish I had this long ago.
Is anyone else tired?
This week was quite an interesting one. Twas my first full week of school, with about 35 more to come… from just this year.
Tuesday, in English, we had tests over our summer reading (which I got about half done). Still got about an 80% on those, so I was ecstatic. Or maybe they were just simple. Whatever.
Physics on Wednesdays and Fridays is just tiring, because it’s 90 minutes of sitting in a classroom, not taking down notes about things I’ve learned four years ago, and watching it be reexplained forty or fifty times because each individual student has a specific way of having no clue what they’re doing. I wish I could sleep, I wish I could use my laptop… I wish I could ignore the world around me there. Something needs to give me the strength to sleep through not only the unwillingness to learn of the students, but the unwillingness of the teachers to teach us well. If I knew nothing about Physics, I wouldn’t get it either.
Speaking of science four years ago, the science teacher I had then is an assistant principal at my school now. Not sure how that happened, especially since I didn’t think she was even in the district for the last three years. Can’t remember.
Today, my colleague in debate and I taught the novices, because our coach apparently wanted to see our perspective on debate before he taught the next class, so he knew he was teaching us right. Uh?
And, we watched a movie in APAH today over a Native American tribe, and I found it somewhat boring since I was half asleep. Of course, it was interesting, just… not.
Oh well. An interesting week, nonetheless.
Props to the Fedora Infrastructure team for rebuilding a multitude of servers in about a week and catching an intruder before anything bad happened. We couldn’t have this great distro without you guys.
This weekend, I plan to work on the websites I need to get finished/fixed and work on fixing random wiki pages. Or perhaps I might work on adding some more random functions to my Pascal’s triangle generator in the ianweller-misc repository. Or, perhaps, I want to catch up on sleep. Maybe I’ll do all three. Or, I can quite possibly do none of these things. Instant gratification is what I absurdly rely on, and it’ll push me through this weekend and many more weeks to come.
Dear Teachers…
Please stop assigning word searches for assignments for your high school juniors. They don’t teach anything… ever. They are just busy work.
A new (af)front of spam
Today’s enjoyable spams: Fake MSNBC “breaking news” headlines.
Among some of the more hilarious ones:
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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