Tweaks and Flakes

February 1st, 2008

If you only read the weblog in your reader, you're missing out on the newest tweaks. A little more color, a few more excuses to use SVG. I love that SVG. SVG and ImageMagick…um…um…good. SVG, ImageMagick, and RDF–there has to be something in there waiting to be discovered.

If you decide to check out the tweaks, make sure to refresh the page a couple of times.

We received 8 inches of snow yesterday. St. Louis is not a 'snow' city, so you can imagine that it's slowed us all down. I went down to unbury my car, when I noticed a young man helping an older couple across the way. I grabbed my broom–I don't have a shovel–and went to help.

Heartbreaking. The older man's Lexus had slid down and hit rear fender with his wife's relatively new Toyota. No matter what we could do, we'd only make it worse and he finally went in a called the tow truck to separate the two cars. Hopefully the damage will only need a little painting.

I don't park on the hills, I've been dinged before by doing that. I parallel park on the flats, but of course, the snow plow has been through and what was 8 inches is now a wall about a foot and a half around the car. With just the broom I still managed to break down a path to the road, and hopefully tomorrow I can get to the Gardens to get some nice snow pictures.

I must confess that I love shoveling snow. I love wiping snow off the cars, and shoveling a path, and tromping through snow a foot deep. I always have. I don't like ice, but I love the thick, white stuff that packs down nice.

Comments
1
Elaine - 3:35 pm February 1, 2008

Oooooh, much nicer! Altho you might want to look at the styling of the next/prev links near the bottom of the page, they look pretty much unstyled to me.

And I'm with you on the snow, although our recent "snow" was pretty lame: a dusting overnight that just went to slush first thing in the morning. Worst of both worlds, IMHO.

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Bud Gibson - 7:25 pm February 1, 2008

I've been noticing the design for the past bit, ever since you switched to this new mode. You've got the color coordination much better than when you first started experimenting with this. Quite impressive.

BTW, I'm noticing the svg clock no longer says St Louis. Also, you had ajax comment editing at one point. I liked that.

3
bill - 9:08 pm February 1, 2008

BRRR!

4
Shelley - 8:48 am February 2, 2008

Thanks for comments. I've added more styling for the navigation, Elaine, and Bud, there is Ajax comments. They're not working with Firefox 3, but should be working.

Bill, it's a lovely, brisk day.

5
stelt - 8:30 am February 3, 2008

nice SVG

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Rob Russell - 7:38 pm February 4, 2008

I'm not much of a shoveller. I do it as needed but I always wonder after what makes me live in a place where the weather hates me. See, Windsor gets snow that's sometimes pretty for a little while but within a day it's grey mush. Ottawa has much nicer snow but has to pay for it with the bitter bitter cold required to keep snow looking nice.

Oh, and nice SVG.

Thanks to all those who have contributed to the discussion. Comments are now closed, but you can contact the author of the post directly.

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