Doing My Small Part
Posted by luna on January 18, 2012 at 4:47 PM | Last modified: January 18, 2012 7:40 PMHead on over to Wikipedia and give it your zip code to contact your local politicians and let them know how much SOPA and PIPA suck!
Categories: Stupid, User Experience, Web | Comments (1) | PermalinkWhy Restaraunt Websites Suck (mostly)
Posted by luna on November 2, 2011 at 6:53 PM | Last modified: November 2, 2011 6:53 PMSo I went to the Worden’s site looking for daily specials. By default I have JavaScript turned off and I was greeted with a mostly blank page. I emailed them and told them to fix it. They emailed the webmaster who sent this:
QUOTED
Someone attempted to use your website with a script blocker activated. It is possible to block websites from loading scripts such as Javascript. Your website requires scripts to be loaded in order to deliver all the content. The average user does not know how to block scripts so this normally isn’t a issue. 99% of all websites use some form of scripting so if the person who sent the message is blocking scripts, they will be running into this issue on almost every website they visit.
In short, I wouldn’t worry about it unless you receive several messages from different users with this complaint.
We have never had this problem before or since, so it sounds about right.
END QUOTED
I know I’m in the 1%, but come on! JS is for pretty stuff NOT displaying ALL of a site’s content, which came from a database.
After enabling JS all was well, except:
Menus should be in the CMS (when possible) and downloadable as PDFs, and both should be linked from the top bar.
The specials calendar is blank.
That cute little flash thing with the logo and links on it takes up most of my screen on my work computer. 1024*768.
Small grey on white text. This needs to go, it’s everywhere!
Categories: User Experience, Web | Comments (0) | PermalinkVentrilo
Posted by luna on October 8, 2011 at 7:20 PM | Last modified: October 8, 2011 7:20 PMI have a 15 user account, if you know me and want info, contact me. 
Fuck you Nintendo
Posted by luna on October 5, 2011 at 6:27 AM | Last modified: October 5, 2011 6:27 AMSo I want to sell my Wii that has been gathering dust for a long time. I thought those few 
Virtual Console games would add to its sell value and bring enjoyment of classics to some kid who doesn’t know what ‘Zelda II’ is.
Nope, rather than buyer & seller benefiting from this, I risk my personal or financial information that is tied to this device through the Shop account. If I delete this account, the games go too. If I do not delete the Shop account, the next user can see all my receipts in the shop account. These things are nobody’s business but mine and Nintendo’s.
Since I don’t want such information being made ‘public’ I deleted the shop account and formatted the memory. I will only buy games/movies/music on disk unless it’s a streaming service; since there I know I’m ‘renting’. No iTunes for me! I recommend everyone do the same whenever possible.
So who wants to buy my Wii?
Categories: Stupid | Comments (0) | PermalinkI just pre ordered 2 copies of Diablo3 from Amazon.com
Posted by luna on September 13, 2011 at 3:03 AM | Last modified: September 13, 2011 3:03 AMAnd my desk is ready, just need a new computer, 50 ft of Ethernet cable, and more Ethernet ports!
Categories: Diablo3, Self-Improvement | Comments (0) | PermalinkWhere should I put it?
Posted by luna on June 26, 2011 at 7:59 PM | Last modified: June 26, 2011 7:59 PMI got a treadmill for free! I’m about to go use it while watching TV. Is this a good place or should I move it?
WordPress theme is now in the repo!
Posted by luna on June 18, 2011 at 9:05 PM | Last modified: June 18, 2011 9:05 PMFirst one, woot
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/darkbasic
Categories: Site | Comments (0) | PermalinkDual Screens for Fun & Profit
Posted by luna on May 18, 2011 at 10:47 PM | Last modified: May 18, 2011 10:47 PMOk maybe not profit, unless I start selling character names from D2 on one screen while I play on the other.
The closest I ever got to dual monitors was having 2 old desktop computers, 2 old 19 inch CRTs, and 4 copies of D2. Did I mention summer & no AC? I’m surprised anything worked!
This setup is much cooler: one old 3.0ghz computer that’s been given more RAM, Windows 7 & a new video card. No more CRTs!
I don’t know yet how this will help/hurt my work. So far I have a hard time following the mouse between screens but I suppose this takes getting use to. I may check if it’s possible to play a sound when moving between monitors and having the desktop show on both so I can hopefully move task buttons around.
Right now the mouse goes to the 2nd monitor when it touches the left side of the screen but I may change that if I can’t get use to it. I use the keyboard to switch windows mostly but then sometimes the task order confuses me so I switch to mouse.
Pics:
This is me not working!
If D2 runs on it, it's OK to have.
If I can read the screen without sticking my face on it, it's OK to have.
Categories: User Experience | Comments (0) | Permalink
My first wordpress theme
Posted by luna on March 27, 2011 at 5:02 PM | Last modified: March 27, 2011 5:02 PMIt’s done! There’s a demo with the unit test data at the Theme URI. Also, facebook & tweet buttons don’t validate. 
Here’s the notes for it:
This file last modified: 3/27/11.
Theme Name: darkbasic
Theme URI: http://lunaz.homelinux.net/~wpdemo/
Description: Simple blue, dark gray and black theme with 1 sidebar and no artsy stuff. This theme supports widgets and custom menus.
Author: luna
Author URI: http://www.lunaz.com
Version: 1.0
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Notes:
-This is my first theme and I’m late to the CMS party. Please bring issues to my attention as I’m still learning.
-Print styles included in style.css.
-editor-style.css copied from the 2010 theme.
-I’m not exactly sure what the point of post_thumbnails is, but it’s supported.
-This theme supports menus natively.
-There’s room for facebook & tweet buttons in footer.php using id: div#likeme.
-Tried to validate as much as possible for XHTML 1.0 Strict.
Issues
-Comment_form() does not validate because of attribute ‘aria-required’. Hope it becomes standard…
-Large images that use the max-width & height rules look cruddy in IE.
-Links that are in .post p a will not have the gray hover background most other links have. Unaligned uncaptioned linked images in the same class will have a gray background on hover. Getting rid of margins/padding/borders will still leave a ~3px gray hover. The only other solution I got working was to set display: block;, which isn’t what I wanted. This is commented in the style.css.
-No translations done, I don’t understand enough of the documentation to do it, and know no other languages. Text domain issues in single.php, page.php, index.php.
Gizmodo Sucks
Posted by luna on February 12, 2011 at 12:16 AM | Last modified: February 12, 2011 12:16 AMThanks for not allowing me to view any content without allowing JavaScript to run from spammers. Consider those without ability or desire to use JavaScript maybe? Naaaahhh….
Only the logo shows up!