This page renders dreadfully in Explorer 5.x and up. For once, the problem isn't my code, it's the browser. Apparently, in the process of fixing numerous holes, Microsoft has broken strict CSS1 compatibility to some extent in Explorer Though they claim to be 100% compliant, the background-attachment: fixed tag only seems to work for the body, but not individual elements, which is actually in violation of the CSS specs.

So, long story short, this page doesn't look the way it should if you're using Explorer. To see it correctly, use Mozilla or …

Well, it finally happened; my little sister went and got married. What's better is that she couldn't have picked a nicer guy. They were married in a Baha'i ceremony with myself, my mother, the groom's family and many friends present. .

The bride is my sister, Lori. Her husband is the tall dark stranger Vargha Dahna. You can see the pictures here

These images are reduced in size for bandwidth considerations. I have print-resolution versions available. Let me know if you want one.

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Finally, we get winter in Georgia. Over the course of six hours yesterday, it dropped from 71 to 33 degrees. My body finally feels like it's November. I'm sure my Danish friends would say it feels like August, but hey, at least it's tolerable.

Well, this is the new site layout. I've chosen to go the PHP route because it's just more efficient in the long run. All the older material is archived on the right. There are still a few bugs to work out, and I need to make the interface more consistent, but …

I've included the backgrounds with the theme packages, hence the size of the files. Just extract them to ~/.themes (notice the leading dot), and they should work fine. All of them so far are simply hacks on the Xfce engine, as it seems to be the best balance of usability/aesthetic appeal. Click on a thumnail for a full-screen image, or on the theme name to download.

Rakka: Inspired by Haibane Renmei

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Been working on cobbling together some themes for Xfce, and by extension, GTK2. So far, so good, though the syntax is a real rat's nest. I may attempt to write a graphical editor ala wmakerconf for it once I get the internals all figured out. In the meantime, I've got a few posted on the main theme page. Below is my current desktop, running Setiview and GLmatrix.

NP:Wolf, Chris Clark

There. Now that I've said that, I'm sure I've missed a couple. Let me know.

As far as fonts go, it would appear that only the newer CVS versions of WindowMaker support anti-aliased fonts. I haven't been able to get any of the snapshots to compile, so I can't verify it. In any case, if they're not stable versions, I won't be writing for them, so I'll continue to write against the stable (0.80.x) tree. I did manage to find a workaround to get the fonts to show up, but they're ugly and not consistent. You can force the X Server …

I've corrected most of the .tif backgrounds. If you've got a theme with a defective image, check here for the .jpg version. You can edit the "style" file manually to reflect the new image, or you can use a low-rent script I've written to automate the process. Just copy it to /usr/bin/ or /usr/local/bin/ , cd into the directory of the theme and type "wdefang", and that should fix it. The script also removes pointers for the old fonts I was using and reverts them to the default helvetica.

NP: Numbers, L'usine

In the process of moving everything over, it's become apparent that the backgrounds for several themes are incompatible with certain versions of libtiff. I'm in the process of converting the offending images into standard jpegs, but it may be a bit before I can get all the themes reconfigured. Should you run across a problem with one of the theme backgrounds (besides "it bites!"), let me know, and I'll get you the corrected image. I'll also cobble together script to automate the conversion process within a few days.

NP: Surripere, Autechre