braindump
I want to get a post up today, so this blog doesn’t descend into nothing but del.icio.us linkdumps. Unfortunately, I’ve got a lot going on with school right now, and few things seem to deserve much of my bloggy attention when I have two papers due this week and a class to manage. So, I’m going to drop an unordered list of thoughts that I don’t care to defend.
- I agree with Mark Cuban that Google’s acquisition seems kind of foolish. Yeah, YouTube attracts a lot of eyeballs, but Google already has a video-sharing service, and, if Google keeps YouTube as a separate business unit, as some observers speculate, they’re not exactly buying engineers to improve the Google Video experience.
- I forget how different the Web experience is for people who have desk-jobs than it is for grad students or freelancers. I try to plow through my RSS feeds and bookmarks as efficiently as possible, but conversations with old friends are reminding me of clock-watching browsing.
- WordPress templates suck. I’m OK with the PHP-hacking paradigm, but the way that CSS is used in nearly every single one I’ve used makes them brittle and difficult to read. When I started hacking this template, I wanted to create a nice, clean implementation without any unnecessary styles or tags, but I haven’t found the time and I’ve lost the motivation.
- Kubrick, the default WordPress template, is poorly organized and uses a lot of brittle type sizes and ugly fonts. It looks nice if you only change the banner image and don’t mind Microsoft fonts, but if you start changing around the CSS, you’re giving yourself some headaches. WordPress tries hard to make the server adminstration side easy with their “five-minute installation.” It’s too bad they can’t do the same for customizing the presentation.
- Ugh, this is one of those weeks when getting everything done seems impossible.
