Valentine's sonnet for Alex

2010-02-14T23:51:54Z

Within this world, there waits a patient wood
that longs for recreation by your touch
to fall, be sold, be sawn, and seen as good.
Its oaks have pinned their hopes to suffer such;
its maples dream as much as they are able,
and every aspen whispers to itself:
they pine for you to bring them to the table,
or give them self-assurance as a shelf.
   Then there's yourself. The elements essential
   within the raw material of you
   are scintillating stock, with star potential;
   still, steadily you work, and make them new.
And beauty's born, no matter where it lies,
for all the world reflects behind your eyes.

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Quesadillas and theming

2009-08-14T14:53:09Z

Day: Woke up, went to the gym, came back, worked, and plexq made us some rather good quesadillas. Fin made some lovely tag icons for marnanel.org to go along with the existing ones from rosequoll.

Theming: I would like to re-examine the Metacity theme format for GNOME 3. To this end, I've been working on CSS theming for Metacity. I have a reasonable first pass at it written, and several of the standard themes converted (and several more to do). But it occurs to me that the people who would like to create themes and the people who would be willing to download and compile several experimental libraries are not necessarily the same. To this end, I've created a wiki to demonstrate the system. If you write CSS on a page whose name begins with Borders: it will display as the result of rendering that CSS. There is a tour, which you should take first.

Please feel free to create your own themes, either from scratch or by making copies of the existing ones. I was going to finish off all the sample themes before announcing this, and also to make a theme wizard that would put together a theme for you from parts (to show how the system is well-adapted to use with editors), but I decided it was better to release early, release often.

Of course, now that I've announced this, it's sure to be vandalised; I'll try to keep an eye on it, but if you could revert any vandalism you see, I'd appreciate it. Let me know what you think of the system, either way.

Top fives: Ask me for my top five favourites of anything and I'll try to give a sensible answer. So far I've been asked for cities, words, puddings, foods, beverages, heresies, books, and Tetris shapes. Since there are only seven Tetris shapes, that's rather an easy question: the answer is all of them except "S" and "Z".

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Valentine's sonnet for Alex

Quesadillas and theming