What I’ve done to my spare time, and how I’m keeping everything together.
Got a beta invite for Socialthing! the other day. This is good. Anything that allows me to force-feed my mini app feed addiction to myself is a good thing.
The web service links to a bunch of your social stuff and feeds, feeds, feeds! They’re continuously adding more connections but the more common ones are already there. Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Plurk, Pownce, and Brightkite just to name a few are all represented.
This is a good step forward in getting all these random sites we belong to show in one place. You’re also able to post your status to most of them as well. My only complaint is that I’m not able to sign into my multiple accounts. I have 4 Twitter accounts that are very different in content, so it would be nice to update them from one place but separately. Many services are like that though, so not a biggie.
As of today (I know…) I’m feeding Flickr, Twitter, Plurk, Pownce, Last.fm, and Facebook with Ping.fm handling most of the updates. It’s a lot, but it’s also a lot of fun!
For anyone interested, I have 2 invites I can give away for the first to contact me.
More reasons to hate on Windows when it comes to web design.
There is always going to be differences between how browsers display your sites when everyone’s ships are sailing in opposite directions. Unfortunately this is exacerbated to another level when viewing your site in different operating systems. Even more infuriating is that the same browser renders different depending on the OS your using.
I’ve been fine tuning my site for Windows after a relaxing development period in OS X. I didn’t even get past the header when I noticed that it was significantly darker than on my MBP. What makes this funny in a sad, I’m an alcoholic clown who lives in a van down by the river kind of way, is that I was viewing the site using the same browser on the same display!
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Why the site looks like it does, why I lied about not experimenting on a live site, and what to expect from Artboredom in the future.
Short answer: German road signs.
Long answer: This site was yellow. It was VERY yellow to be exact. I was going through a dry-spell visually and yellow is what I came up with. I guess it was more of a punishment than anything. In addition to the dry-spell I was researching design and art during the early days of the Third Reich and the creation of DIN 1451. Unfortunately that still doesn’t explain the yellow…
New directions
Now the site is black; VERY black to be exact. I had to remix everything to match some of my new endeavors to keep the visual experience all in one place. While it’s a style that’s over the top, and über-trendy, it’s a helluva lot of fun to work with! I got to keep up with the kids these days. Besides, someone has to teach them what the 80’s really were like right?
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