theworldisgrey

So, I was looking for a bit of an challenge to keep me occupied this afternoon. Windows Vista has some UI widgets that are really cool. Looking close at them, they are acutaly rather complicated. Quite a departure from the simple widgets of previous versions. I set out to try to de-construct the Windows […]

I moved this site and the other sites I manage to be hosted at linode.com. I wasn’t completely happy with my previous VPS host. It wasn’t always that fast and often restarted. Also installing new software was a bit of a pain as it was running an old release of Fedora Core. The new host […]

The above photo was taken over this weekend while driving back from a Family Day/Christmas (I’m not actually quite sure what it was) event at my brothers Army Reserve unit. This picture was taken driving up to downtown Minneapolis near sunset giving all the buildings a wonderful warm glow. You can find this photo and […]

“At the end of our journey together, I will be discovered—and I will disappear.”
This riddle from Loki, is part of a new alternate reality game (ARG) which seems to be linked launch of Windows Vista. It appears to be run by the same company who put together the ilovebees ARG. For those of you unfamiliar […]

I was going to settle for a simple gallery for this site, after all, what do I really need. Out of curiosity, I decided to see what kinds of Flickr integration has been done for Wordpress. I found this, which is pretty much exactly what I was looking for.
I’m still working at getting the rest […]

The last few weeks have been busy. Between work, holidays, and preparing for a trip to Indonesia in January I haven’t had much time to work on my own web site. But no matter, I’ve started work on on converting my template into Wordpress form. Though I do expect to be adding extra CSS and […]

A new template for my website is almost complete. I still have a few more tweaks left before I can start converting the code into a movable type based template. For those who want to see what it looks like you can see a preview here.

I’m moving away from MT to try Wordpress. I have a new template on the way, but this will get me started.