Monument

I gave Fin her Valentine's present this morning. The present was a chapbook, a book of 31 of the poems I've written for her over the last few years. They are mostly sonnets and triolets, with a villanelle thrown in at the end.

But you may be wondering why I'm giving Valentine's presents in January. Fin has said that I can sell the book on Lulu and give the royalties to the Haiti relief efforts being run by Médecins Sans Frontières. The book is here; the royalties are $3 per copy, all of which will go to the earthquake relief.

If you would rather all the money went to MSF and none to Lulu or the post office, make a donation directly (in the US, go here; in the UK, go here; otherwise, go here), then tell me about it (marnanel at gmail.com), and I'll send you a PDF.

Please feel free to spread the word, if you have friends who like this kind of thing.

Edit: There is currently a sitewide 20% discount code, CABIN.

for you are the sun
and you are the thunder:
in sunlight I run,
and you are the sun
that fills me with fun,
that fills me with wonder
for you are the sun
and you are the thunder

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".