Daily Archive: Sat. July 4, 2009

One month to go

With just a month left to go before I actually get the keys to my place, I’m starting to think that I really need to get on top of this whole packing business. Last time I made a big move with the family, we were all woefully unprepared when the movers came. Most people would already have been living out of boxes by the time the big date rolled around. Oh no, not us. Most of our stuff was still out because we were still busy “living.” All in all, that made the move quite miserable. I really do not want a repeat of that. One big difference between my situation and what happened in 2003 is that I’ll be hauling it over myself. I don’t have that much stuff–I don’t think I can justify having professional movers come in to do the dirty work. As well, our trusted neighbour across the street offered to help us out on the big day. Great! It’s going to be a good day, for sure.

My vacation time is already booked. I know that at this time it’s entirely unlikely that it’ll be delayed any further. If that happens though I am seriously going to throw something at a wall.

Random header images

Yes, it’s late. I just spent the last one or two hours creating some new header images for the theme to randomly pick from. It’s been an interesting process because it allowed me a chance to scour through my hard drive of photos to find some candidates for header images. Some of the older pictures from years ago were pretty low-res. You can tell from the results. In other cases, the picture was actually taken with my cell phone creating for weird colouration. There were some photos that looked pretty cool on their own, but lost their impact when limited to a window of 226 pixels. I added descriptions to the pictures I chose. I’m not sure if I’m liking the pixel font I chose. The font is meant to be 7 pixels high, but that was far too small for my liking. As such, there’s some heavy duty anti-aliasing going on.

Right now there are 11 images:

  • Niagara Falls, Ontario
  • Seafort Square, Tokyo, JP
  • Chinatown, Yokohama, JP
  • Big Buddha, Kamakura, JP
  • Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
  • Fairmont Royal York, Toronto, Ontario
  • Old City Hall, Toronto, Ontario
  • Wall Street, New York, New York
  • Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario
  • Yonge St., Toronto, Ontario
  • Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario

Let me know if there’s a particular one that’s pretty cool, or if there’s one that just doesn’t work. Any opinion would be helpful. Thanks!

ETA: OK, so after sitting with it for a day or so, I’m realizing that not all images work that well as a header. As well, having a random header can be distracting. So I’m going to pick one header image and stick with it for a month or whatever time period. The first one I’m choosing will be Seafort Square. If you see fire above it’s because I still haven’t uploaded it. Keep an eye out!

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