Apathetic Thursday

This is by far the best news concerning web design I have heard in my lifetime. I wish it would have happened sooner.

When it comes to designing WordPress templates, I love the design process, and I don’t mind coding, but there are certain aspects of the process which I completely dread. One of these such processes is that of formatting the comments. As a result, that usually is put off and forgotten about. Which is what I tried to do, however, people are actually giving me comments on my blog and I am embarrassed that they have to go and look at my messy comments, which is the equivalent to an unclean bedroom.

As such, I am proud to announce that today, this morning, I  took the time to reformat the comment CSS so that the comments look as stylish as  the rest of the page. Hopefully they look as good for you as they do for me.

I was working in Photoshop a few days back and I tried to open a file, and I got a really odd error. I assumed I had a corrupt file, so I didn’t think much of it, but I was sad that I couldn’t open the file anymore. (Today I found that the file opens wonderfully in the GIMP, yay!)

But my problems didn’t end there. I opened a new document and clicked on the text tool. I then clicked on the document to add text and instead of getting a text insertion cursor to appear, I got a helpful little comandline box which looked like this:

But that wasn’t all. I looked at my menu bar, to discover that it looked entirely out of whack:

Clicking on the Blank area gave me a cute but useless box:

Clicking on Photoshop gave me an interesting view of what was happening:

I had never heard of SOIUX, so my first instinct was to find out what it was, choosing About SIOUX gave me this:

When attempting to quit Photoshop, I was presented with a quaint little dialogue box asking me if I wanted to save my error message:

After I quit, Photoshop gave me an “Unexpected Quit” message. I was rather expecting it to quit, but aparently my system wasn’t.

The oddest thing about this error, is that I have only found one other document case of this happening It’s found in the Adobe Forums and repeated in Google Groups.This question, though, is an unresolved issue from November of 2006.

Seeing as it came from a text issue error, and remembering a message about a font not being correct at one point in time, I decided to check out my fonts to see if there were any corrupt files. I found a corrupt font, and trashed it, but the problem still exists. What baffles me is that it happens to a blank document. The best I can tell is that it is some sort of C or C++ error resulting from either a corrupt file or bad preference of some sort.

I did a search for both “Berardino E. Baratta” and “Metrowerks Corporation” but I didn’t find anything helpful in the results. I also searched for Simple Input/Output User Exchange, and got virtually nothing from Google. Recently I have become very good at searching for things Google is not able to help me with.

I think my best bet is to try out a clean install of Photoshop. Or revert to a backed copy of my hard drive. I was able to boot from my clone today and use Photoshop for my needs almost perfectly.

Remember kids, always, ALWAYS, back up important files.

I just saw a post on Modern Life is Rubbish talking about how he changes his color scheme on the first of every month. I thought this sounded like a sweet idea. The best part is that my color scheme for this site is so minimal, I basically have to change the link colors once a month. I took the liberty of changing all the link colors to more spring colors for the month of April. I think they look nice and pastel. Hopefully later today I will have some time to choose the rest of the months colors, and I hope to set up a script that will change the colors for me, so I don’t have to think about it. Maybe I could even get a WordPress plugin made out of it. We’ll see.

Nothing noticeably different, but it always feels good to have the newest version.

I just noticed something intersting on my site today. It’s something most of you won’t care about, but I figured it is Thursday, so… whatever, I don’t care.

Anyway, I opened up my website in 8 browsers and took a look at them. It looked great in all 8 browsers, which made me happy, but there was one discrepency. In Firefox, Camino and Mozilla, the image in the post below this one, had an image boarder around it.

The image boarder was caused by the link tag in my style sheet. If you hovered over the image, the boarder changed to a red color, just like my links do. Now I thought this was interesting, because the Mozilla browsers, all based off of the Gecko framework, all applied the link styling to the images, while Safari and the other browsers built off of the webkit framework, do not.

A simple line of code fixed the issue, so I didn’t have any boxes, but I thought it was interesting.

Have a great day all!